the next time I buy a PDA is when they’ll be fully matured, I think the concept of PDA’s is amazing, but they aren’t fully developed yet.

About the iPhone problems, I found a few good solutions and fixes at -

http://www.fixya.com/support/p905248-apple_iphone_3g

Hope this will help you a bit,
Wii.

My wife’s iPhone works fine and always has bars here where we live (except she can’t run her phone in standby for mor than 4 hours… mine will run all day long and then some). I suspect the antenna in my iPhone is the culprit. Her’s has bars everywhere we go, mine is anemic.

We FINALLY got a special phone number for Apple to contact them and it looks like we will be sending both phones off for warranty… STAY TUNED and meanwhile watch “iPhone From Hell” on YouTube.

I love this phone but I hate AT&T.

My first Apple product was a $10,000 LISA computer back in 1983, so “YES,” I’d say I’m a “branded” fanatic.

I love this phone but I hate AT&T.

My first Apple product was a $10,000 LISA computer back in 1983, so “YES,” I’d say I’m a “branded” fanatic.

I picked up my 3G iPhone last Saturday. Been a Windows/Windows Mobile/Pocket PC guy since back in the day. Although there are some very BIG differences in the OS’s, stability wise I would have to say I have had little to no problems. I have 15 apps and no games installed so far and I leave 3G and Bluetooth on all day at work and at the end of the day with medium usage, I have about 30% battery life left. No spectacular but my HTC TyTN II would be dead by the end of the business day with the same usage. 3G reception is fairly good in my area and I don’t use WiFi that often. So far it’s been a pleasant experience. Being an ardent Windows supporter and user to this day, I had always said it would take hell to freeze over before I owned an Apple product. Well… :)

No complaints with my 3G 16gb either. I live in Manhattan, and travel quite a bit up and down the 95 corridor to MA and never have a problem with reception. In fact I took it to Detroit and suburbs of Michigan and found 3G reception exceptional there as well. Only times I see dropped calls are in the same places where ATT ALWAYS dropped my calls, and that is in the areas where towers trade over.

Whats really cool is my battery life has been exceptional. Usually a couple days between charges. I usually leave 3G on and WiFi on while walking around and have set up access accounts at some of the different free access points throughout the city, so changeover has been seemless. It seems like Apple built their tradeoff algorythms to assume mult-iaccess points.

Coming from an HTC 8525, I was used to switching off and on with the 3G to save battery life. But don’t bother usually with iPhone unless I forget to charge during the week. Honestly, way more impressed with this phone than I thought I would be. It’s replaced over 30% of my laptop use now.

I have about 25 apps loaded and usually only use them for quick bits of info. Not a big game player here, only 4 of those, so maybe thats why my phone is so stable? ;) There have been several updates across many of the apps I downloaded. I suspect many programmers are still learning the ins and outs of the OS, since it’s still fresh. I don’t blame Apple for that.

One essential recommendation: invest in a good hardshell case and screen protector. I did and the original is in perfect condition still.

No complaints from me with my 3G so far. Spent several hours using it in a long car journey in the UK and 3G reception was very good to acceptable over 4.5 hours travelling.

iPhone is by far and away the best mobile I’ve had. Heavy use does drain the batteries which is why I’ve invested in a Powermonkey emergency charger.

With an iPhone first generation, on the French coast in Normandy, 0 level signal for me and 3 bars for an old Siemens Clamshell… And with the same Phone provider…

Many laughs about my gadget toy !

I haven’t heard any complaints from my iPhone-owning coworkers, but then again, none of them would never admit to me that they were having problems with it, because they harass me all the time about issues with their Dell systems (all of which are user generated with one hardware exception).

The only gripe I’ve heard is that all of the 3G owners have turned off 3G to prevent the lousy signal coverage from draining their batteries.

I still have my white 16gb phone but various problems means it’s not my primary phone anymore. The lagging contacts persisted after the 2.0.1 update as did the ssslllooowww keyboard when using SMS. Additionally, I live close to the edge of a 3G area and while I can’t say it’s been awful, I had a few calls dropped and other calls distorted to where a disconnect would have been more honest. And finally, bluetooth just sucks. If you have an antique bluetooth headset you’re set but otherwise, the phone talks to nothing. Not a single device I own including Apple’s own keyboard and mouse.

So I bought a Tilt and moved the sim from the iPhone to the Tilt. The iPhone is still on my desk and I use it for dev purposes but for a phone, I use the Tilt. Sure, I have all HTC and Window’s problems, but the network speed is better, I have my Slingplayer and streaming wmv audio back. When the day comes that the iPhone is ready to play with the big boys, it’ll be here ready to go.

As I wrote about here, 3G reception on my iPhone 3G is always significantly worse than on my Nokia N95-3 in the same location.

http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/iphone-3g-one-week-later/

The 3G has worked fine for me. The iPhone 3G crashes often however, causing me to do 28 total restores. iTunes and iPhone software is very buggy and apps crash all the time. I actually returned the iPhone and got a replacement. No improvements with the replacement.

Apple needs a fix for the software ASAP. The iPhone 2.0 was certainly not ready for release. No quitting app should kill all of them and in many cases kill the phone!

spinedoc, aren’t you the one who a good while back lived in Belgium or the Netherlands or someplace like that?

I have a ATT Tilt phone currently and I am thinking about an getting an 3G iPhone, but there is much press about its shortcomings. In today’s San Francisco Chronicle there is an article, link below, about the problems with an iPhone which are some of the same issues that are being noted here. I must admit that many of same issues people have with the iPhone I have with my Tilt. The reception on the Tilt at times is horrendous. I can be in a chair in my living room and go from 4 bars to having the call drop without warning. The strong signal to no signal happens to me in many other locations throughout the Bay Area even though I have never moved more than 5 feet. The battery life of the Tilt, based upon my usage pattern, is not great and it crashes on average about once a day.

So is the iPhone that bad, or is it just like the other 3G ATT phones?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BU3M12941O.DTL

Oh yes, I agree with the battery comment. I do see half of my battery life gone with the 2.0.1 update. I used to be able to keep wifi on and at the end of the day I’d still have 60% or more. But now just a couple of calls and wifi and after a couple of hours I’m below 50%.

It’s good to know that based on previous performance the battery issues are firmware/software related and hopefully Apple fixes them.