iPhone, connection problems. Update software in Vista
Poor signal reception. Indeed, bad ‘handoff’, the technical term to indicate the ability of mobile phones to pass the receipt Umts than Gsm when the 3G signal has not enough strength. And some iPhone appears to suffer from this problem. A real own goal for the jewel of Apple technology that has the ambition to do much more of its competitors but then stumbles dramatically in one of the “core” of cellular telephone. In essence, some people it has and just can not use it for calls.
The phone’s 3G Apple, launched in Italy and another twenty countries including the United States a few weeks ago and with great clamor and attention of the international press, so back at the centre of controversy. Prior to the high prices outside the United States, then the rates are not cheap (especially for connecting to the Internet, which is one of the strengths dell’iPhone) chosen by many operators, and finally to the spectacular own goal by Steve Jobs few days ago that in an interview with financial daily Wall Street Journal revealed that he anticipated that all equipment marketed by Apple can get themselves into contact with the parent and block third-party software installed that endanger the integrity phone or personal data of users.
Now is the time of poor signal reception, which translates into bad Internet connections and especially in the fall of the line during the calls. This means a problem for a mobile phone, spotted by many users and that according to information collected by websites of fans and the press riguardarebbero the U.S. 1-2% of equipment sold. The fault would be neither national telephone operators, which unanimously swear I have received largely secrecy terminals phone from Apple only a few days before launch and then he did not have time to do any testing and measurement, nor the same company of Cupertino, which is supplied by third parties for specialized microchips that deal to manage the radio transmission. Under indictment instead, according to Businessweek, there would be Germany’s Infineon, the chip supplier indicted that handles the switch between networks high-speed 3G (whose coverage of the territory is rather limited in Italy) and those Gsm, much more widespread .
However, there is good news for the million and passes to purchasers of iPhone in the world, and give it is in the same manner irrituale Steve Jobs. Responding yesterday to a request sent by email from a user who protested at the lack of ability to switch from the network Umts than Gsm also in almost total absence of signal in the first, Jobs replied telegraficamente writing: “We are working on some problems Reception affecting approximately 2% of iPhone sold and we hope to soon provide a software update. Then, without any expensive procedure for all equipment for replacement of defective chips.
Steve Jobs is known for not giving interviews but almost never to respond (salturiamente) in the first person to questions sent directly by customers of Apple by email. Even today has sent a new message, have reported various websites statutensi, a customer who complained about the inability to download and activate third-party applications after the update 2.02 yesterday evening of iPhone software (downloadable through iTunes when synchronize the phone with the PC), saying: “This is a known bug and that the iPhone will be corrected in the next software update in September. The problem in this case does not seem to be the phone but iTunes, the software used to synchronize information PC with the phone and vice versa.