iPhone 3G Glitches Stemming from Hardware?

By Geoff Duncan
August 14, 2008

Some iPhone 3G owners have been complaining of poor broadband connectivity...and Sweden's Ny Teknik says it's a manufacturing problem.

Since going on sale in the U.S. on July 11, some users of Apple's new iPhone 3G have complained of weak and even non-existent 3G service, even in areas where 3G phones from other manufacturers have access to strong connectivity. Although many iPhone users report no unexpected problems with 3G connectivity, Apple's support forums are rife with complaints about poor broadband performance, and the complains seem to come from many countries where the iPhone 3G is available, including Japan, the U.K., France, and (of course) the United States.

Now Sweden's leading engineering and technology newspaper Ny Teknik claims (Swedish) it knows why: it claims that tests conducted by (unspecified) experts found that signals from the iPhone 3G antenna can be quite weak, which would result in poor or no ...

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