Comments on: TiPb Answers: iPhone 3G Still Having Reception Problems?

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:21:21 +0000

SF Bay Area peninsula, dropped calls are a daily occurence, as well as incoming calls going directly to voicemail. AT&T blames Apple, Apple blames AT&T, I have embarassing non-professional phone service, back to tin-can days at $100 a month. I tried APpple suggestion of EDGE over 3-d but still had dropped calls. The Iphone is great at everything but being a phone. Doh!

By: 3gs-iphone

3gs-iphone — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:38:08 +0000

The new iPhone 3GS still have this drop call problems. But, the good thing is that it is twice as fast from the old one. Check out for more info on the new iPhone 3GS Apple

By: Chheang

Chheang — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:43:37 +0000

OMG… the phone is absolutely horrid! I live in Sunnyvale, CA. The phone drops calls like it’s a normal feature of the phone! I am driven absolutely nuts by it! Additionally, this weekend in San Francisco, I was unable to make a damn phone call anywhere along the Bay to Breakers parade route. WTF is wrong w/ this phone? I wish I had known this prior to purchase. I would have never purchased this f-ing piece of *rap.

By: iPhone Sucker

iPhone Sucker — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:50:24 +0000

I should have known about the drop calls from the beginning. I was in the apple store, and I needed to call my bank to increase my spending limit on my debit card. The Apple salesman told me I could use one of the iPhones on display in the store. Of course, I had to go through my bank’s generated generic automated voice system, and then I eventually navigated my way to a real live person. I authenticated who I was, and after 10 minutes of talking with my bank… I received a DROP CALL!!! This was when I was using a freaking demo iPhone within the Apple Store. WTF!!!! I didn’t think anything of it. I was so gah gah over purchasing an iPhone. I told the Apple Salesman, and he said to just call back or use another iPhone within the store… oh do I wish I could go back in time and slap the **** out of myself. I should have never bought this damn phone. I experience about 10 drop calls a week. The crazy thing is when I try to call back after a drop call; my iPhone will just sit there for several minutes trying to re-dial. Three letters man, WTF.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:29:13 +0000

I live in downtown Atlanta. I have full bars in my apartment, but my iPhone 3G on AT&T has terrible service. I would conservatively say that 2/3 of my phone calls get dropped. The main reasons seem to be a straight dropped call. Sometimes, it will randomly say the phone number I am dialing does not exist.

I had heard this issue was fixed back in August, but the problems only started for me a couple weeks ago (I got the iPhone in December).

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:43:02 +0000

I live in Chicago (Lincoln Park) and my service is BAD, BAD, BAD!! Service with AT&T phones in the past were not superb but what i am experiencing with the new iphone is unacceptable !! I drop calls all day long, call failed, lose a caller after a minute, no bars to 4 bars in the same area. It even takes me a few calls before the call goes through and if i am lucky i can talk for a minute. AT&T actually waived all my fees last month for service or lack of!! I am hoping they will continue to at least discount my bill monthly until they figure this out….

By: iphoneinvestigation

iphoneinvestigation — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:50:00 +0000

Hi there!

If anyone is experiencing iPhone/service issues and wishes to investigate pursuing a claim against Apple/Rogers Canada they can contact me at the following address:

iphoneinvestigation@hotmail.com

please detail your date of ownership, OS, location and brief description of the problems you’ve had.

thank you.

By: WoW

WoW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:20:03 +0000

GETTIN ME A STORM BABY!

By: WoW

WoW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:18:06 +0000

i sure am glad i read all this, helped me into not getting an iphone 3g, i dont need to be droppin calls all the damn time

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:02:09 +0000

I have a new 3G (bought 2 months ago) with the latest 2.1 firmware and my cell regularly drops calls. 3-4 calls everyday and after trying 2-3 times I just give up and resort to txt messaging. I am appalled by the deceptive maketing “the new firmware will fix drop calls” and Apple’s deaf ears to providing a permanent solution to the problem. I guess I should have just waited and bought a Blackberry Storm. At least, I could have made phone calls. So in a nutshell the iPhone is everything but a device to make Phone calls. Did they forget what the “Phone” in iPhone means ? So Apple if your are listening –> “Phone is a device used to make calls first” – Oh wait ! my call just dropped, no wonder the big dogs at Apple don’t know about this.