Apple Working To Fix iPhone 3G’s Hiccups

Posted in iPhone News by admin. Published August 17th, 2008

Apple Working To Fix iPhone 3G’s Hiccups

AT&T and Apple Inc developers are currently seeking solutions to solve the faults of the latest version of the iPhone 3G: dropped calls and flawed Web surfing.

The glitches of Apple’s latest smart phone stirred a lot of debate on the blogosphere over the main cause of these malfunctions. According to some sources who spoke to BusinessWeek.com, the problems are caused mainly by a set of chips inside the iPhone. Apple Inc reportedly decided to remedy the situation by introducing a software upgrader rather than recalling the handsets.

The problem with the dropped calls on Apple 3G iPhone is not only a U.S. thing. Users from Paris to Tokyo, from London to Stockholm are complaining about the connections hiccups.

The fault appears to occur especially when the phone tries to switch from 3G to another network.

“Apple has had the same problem in every market where the (3G) iPhone is sold,” said Roger Entner, senior vice president at Nielsen IAG. This means that AT&T’s 3G network isn’t responsible for the errors.

The cause of these errors seems to be the 3G chipset provided by Infineon Technologies, a Munich, Germany -based chip producer.

Sources familiar with the matter revealed the cause of iPhones faults, but chose to remain anonymous because they weren’t allowed to publicly discuss the problem.

The chipset produced by Infineon has the role of helping the Apple iPhone 3G switch from one network to another and the handoff is supposed to be perfect.

The software upgrader that will fix the faults is currently developed by AT&T and Apple and will be sent to users remotely via iTunes sometime next week.