Jeez Gizmodo, a little slow. Every 3G phone on ATT has had these problems for 2 years. In my area, Austin, calls still drop occasionally when you leave a 3G area. This is a known issue with ATT but apparently they don't know how to fix it. I am guessing we will continue to have these problems until the whole network is 3G...

slaughter33

Gizmodo needs to get more objective data.

Get these 3G phones in a car and drive to 10 randomly selected locations across the country. It would probably more statistically significant if four people were in the car and using the same phones/software version.

Road trip anyone?

ljj

BWAHAHA. Yeah, @paja, I'm in the same boat. My iPhone 3G works great. Based on the rumors I was hearing, it was a small fraction of the first run iPhone 3Gs.

t3knomanser

@paja: I hope you're kicking and punching blocks of wood right now, cuz you just jinxed all of your friends.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I've had an iPhone since 10 days after launch and the phone has never once dropped a call on me. The only time I had 3G dropping to EDGE problem was when I was in the bellies of the Empire State Building...

ajlafontaine

my girlfriend and i returned our iPhone 3Gs on friday due to the fact that half our calls were dropped. What a pain. Getting either a Blackberry or a Moto Q from Verizon... it really is more important to have a better network IMO.

jdunns4

@theMOE: Treo pro looks like the centro in a new shell. the keyboard on the pro looks like it will suck

xxenclavexx

I bet no firmware update can easily fix that plastic metal screened thing.

Ken_Darrow

haha love that pic. Lazy 3g phones always trying to revert to edge.

xxenclavexx

I know at least two dozen people who have iPhones and NONE of them are having any of the problems that Gizmodo keeps ranting on. I guess the 1% or 2% that are having problems are on every blog complaining about it and I can certainly understand their frustration

My Treo drops calls on me occasionally, but I'm sure it's the network and not the Palm software.

paja

Haha i just mentioned this in my comment on the 2.0.2 update 3G problems, my friend with a 3G Blackjack II had the same 3G issues described here and with the iPhone. AT&T?

ab3

Well, this gives the boys at Palm a little more time... a very little.

direct45

This is one thing the Bold DIDN'T need going for it. With the iPhone so popular you need to have a flawless launch in order to get the press behind u in a good way....not good news

efenili

It's all the shiny new phones - the Nokia e71 has similar RF issues. It will drop to edge in spotty 3G areas and then won't pick up the 3G once its in a well-covered area. Are they all using the same chips? or same Gen of chips?

Silly McFakeypants

I had a Q9 right when they came out and never had 3G problems.

FuzzysFriedChicken

Forget all of that. Go with a Treo Pro. : )

theMOE

Hopefully this means the iPhone 3G problems might actually be fixed via an update.

Benjaminx

@slaughter33: Say it ain't soo-oo-wo-awoah

ALT

I wish I knew where I heard people telling me the US's cell network is up to par with Europe, and I cried BS. Well now I am more convinced Europe's cell network is better than the US's.

BostonPimpDaddy2

Sounds like this is not a problem with the phone and more like a problem with the carriers network, remember up to now no one has been really using the internet that much on a phone, am not saying the iphone or the bold where the first internet capable phones, but they do take using the internet on your phone to another levl

snitch29

Technology doesn't work.

diesel828

@slaughter33: Problems with the iPhone 3G are international, even in countries with a deep, well-developed 3G infrastruc....

matt buchanan

@matt buchanan: Oh really? I didn't know that. Very interesting. Thanks for the links

BostonPimpDaddy2

@Silly McFakeypants: Makes me wonder if this is either a chip problem (do all of these failing phones use the same 3G radio chip?) or AT&T's 3G network...

anti-hello-kitty

I just got rid of my Samsung Blackjack, and the reception with that phone was the worst of any I've owned. I haven't had too much issue with the iphone 3G, but maybe I'm just used to the horrible blackjack, because my iphone is WAY better reception wise.

p.s. I sent in my first blackjack, because I figured it had a well documented antennae problem

Ghung

The fact remains that AT&T and other GSM carriers around the world have what are called inferior networks. Theoretically 3G is really fast and really cool. In reality (where we all live, work and play) it sucks.

burton1976

@ajlafontaine:

If you get a Blackberry it won't have 3G. The Bold is RIM's first 3G device. If the only thing holding you back is the dropped calls, just get a first gen iPhone. Runs on edge just fine. I haven't dropped a call in almost a year. Besides, the Blackberries will be running on the same edge network. Otherwise you could get an iPhone 3G and just turn 3G off to avoid the problem.

justinpe

iPhone 3G - gone
Blackberry 3G - gone
I'd say Nokia's looking pretty good right about now.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

IMO this is more a network/carrier issue, but a hardware maker would never say such a thing since the carrier is their client/pays them the skrilla. My wifes 3G Lg phone (CU 270 I think) lost 3G while we were driving yesterday, call dropped. My iPhone 3G was still in 3G mode. 3G is sux?

steaky

I loves me my Sprint EVDO Rev A.

Suck failure, GSM!

golferal

For someone who owns an iPhone 3G and constantly hears it being bashed, I say this:

Fail.

Renegade05

Does anyone know if the Bold uses the same Infineon Gold 3G chipset as the iPhone? Everyone in the world wanted a 3G iPhone. Now it's here and lots of people are unhappy with it. An all-around bad situation, I suppose. Maybe if the Infineon chipset is faulty, Apple can get money back from Infineon.

ConstableOdo1

Welcome to 3G. I've had an AT&T LG phone which runs on 3G and every call is dropped. 3g is terrible for voice calls

ZanderGorilla