If you’re having problems with dropped calls on your new 3G Apple iPhone, you’re not alone.

From New York to Stockholm, 3G iPhone owners are complaining loudly about connection failures - sometimes repeatedly - during calls.

The problem typically occurs when the device attempts to move from 3G to another network.

According to people familiar with the matter, the culprit appears to be the 3G chipset provided by Infineon Technologies, a German chipmaker. Sources declined to be identified because they are not authorized to talk about the problem publicly.

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Last week’s iPhone 3G launch appears to have been a success, with the device sold out in virtually all U.S. locations. Calls to local AT&T stores in the metropolitan Chicago area, for example, turned up no phones, and long wait lists. Reasons for the shortage range from Apple underestimating demand to a shortage of components from overseas suppliers.
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This is what the ’smart” people at PC World has done with their 3G iPhone. The new phone was barely lauched few days back and it has already been tortured, scratched, beaten up, thrown away and washed!!

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Apple’s iPhone made its Japan debut on Friday morning.

The launch marks the first time the iPhone has been available in Japan and the chance to be one of the first to own one attracted more than 1,000 people to the store of Japanese carrier Softbank in Tokyo’s trendy Harajuku neighborhood by the time sales began at 7a.m. Read the rest of this entry »

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Japanese consumers will be among the first in the world to get their hands on the new 3G version of the iPhone when it goes on sale on Friday.

A small group of iphone users in Japan

Softbank, the carrier that will launch the phone in Japan, will open its store in the heart of the fashionable Harajuku district at 7 a.m. (10 p.m. GMT Thursday) to customers wishing to buy the phone. Other Softbank stores and major retailers will offer the phone from noon, the carrier said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

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The iPhone 3G, which Apple is billing as twice as fast and half as expensive as the debut model, will roll out in cities from Tokyo to Sydney on Friday — but it could face challenges in Asia it will not have elsewhere.

The company is betting the new phone’s third generation (3G) capabilities, such as faster Internet access and file transfer, will make the phone a hit. Like the first version, the new model also has an iPod built in. Read the rest of this entry »

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