This does not bode well.
It’s Friday morning, September 12, and the iPhone update 2.1 has just been released, with promises of “Fewer Dropped Calls” from Apple and “More Bars in More Places” from AT&T.
As I sit here in my own home with my 2G iPhone five inches from my keyboard, I have five bars on the Edge network from a tower I can see from my patio door.
Previously, the 3G coverage was spotty here in my home in south Charlotte, an area showing solid coverage on AT&T’s map — Not downtown, but comfortably inside the urban sprawl of the banking center of the south, and certainly not out amongst the cows and chickens.
The update is complete! Time to see 2.1’s enhanced, zippy 3G coverage.
“No Service!?”
Same spot. Watch the bars come back when I turn off 3G. Watch them disappear when I turn it on. Restart. Same thing.
Dang! Turn off 3G and back to Edge network with two days of battery life.
Remind me. Why did I buy the new iPhone? Oh yeah. The GPS — neat when I use the apps ‘Where’ and ‘Distance’ inside my house.
This does not bode well.
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