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Wired Survey: iPhone 3G Issues Might Be the Network After all [IPhone 3G]
gizmodo.com - 8/26/2008
Wired Survey: iPhone 3G Issues Might Be the Network After all [IPhone 3G]
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The results from Wired's worldwide —and yes, unscientific— survey of iPhone 3G download speeds are in (though the map seems to be down): It's the network . Well, at least, the iPhone's 3G issues aren't simply a hardware problem , as a bunch of mad scientist Swedes vetted this morning . Germany and the Netherlands, which have a solid, mature 3G infrastructure, report the fastest 3G ...
Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses
blog.wired.com - 8/25/2008
Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses
— blog.wired.com — (Note: Zeemaps is experiencing technical difficulties; the map will return soon.) Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users... suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. Recently Wired.com ... (more) Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses

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Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan
gizmodo.com - 8/28/2008
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan
— gizmodo.com — According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded... to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbraking one's ... (more) Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan

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The iPhone 3G's Problem May Have Been Found and Fixed [Apple]
gizmodo.com - 8/28/2008
The iPhone 3G's Problem May Have Been Found and Fixed [Apple]
— gizmodo.com — While Apple and AT&T have both been pretty quiet about what could be going wrong with the... iPhone 3G, a new source from inside AT&T has finally broken the silence on the " bug fixes " offered in the latest firmware 2.0.2. So was it fixing the iPhone ... (more) The iPhone 3G's Problem May Have Been Found and Fixed ...

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Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple:  iPhone doesn't have 3G issues, probably

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iPhone doesn't have 3G issues, probably
Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple — ... have a solid, mature 3G infrastructure, report the fastest 3G speeds—2Mbps on average. In the US the picture is not so peachy, confirming the steady flood of irate yupsters yapping over the last few weeks. [But] in major metro areas in the US, 3G performance is slow as balls. ... Because AT&T's 3G equipment is mostly deployed on existing 2G towers which are spaced farther apart than 3G's range, when you get the to edge of a tower's coverage, you're going to get crappy performance. more Will Park has another theory : We’re hearing that Orange, France’s official iPhone 3G ...

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