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Apple Releases iPhone 2.0.2 Update
Is that it? Is that it? Today Apple quietly released an upgrade for the iPhone, 2.0.2. Typical of such releases, there's no discussion of what's really extinct fixed, aside from a vague quotation to "bug fixes."
However, checking the Apple support forums, if that was meant to fix the quandarys that exist with the 2% of iPhones that Steve Jobs said have an issue with 3G performance, perhaps it only fixes 2% of that 2%. largest mortals see little or no recovery.
The update is sizeable, weighing in at 248.7 megabytes, nearly as huge as the last update (249.2 MB).
More details after I get it on my own iPhone 3G.
Update: Well, hard to say. At first I thought there was no augmentation, with 1/2 bar showing. 10 minutes next, 5 bars. 10 more minutes, and back to 1/2 bar.
OK, I changed my mind: there is no augmentation.
Additionally, there's obsolete some report dished, from former Apple employee Chuq Von Rospach. It is of string, unsubstantiated, but could be taken as superb, or bad, depending.
What I was told was that 90% of the disconnects are initiated inside the phone, which would exonerate AT&T. highest of the disconnects are life generated by crashes in the driver symbol for the 3G chip, which buzzs from the chip vendor, not something Apple written and outside of Apple's open regimentation. Complicating that -- surfaced though Apple is handing completed "here is the bug, here is the fix, update the driver", the turnaround from the vendor on driver updates is on the organization of 2-3 months. Said, um, decrease of urgency not exactly making humans inside the projects happy.If true, it's considerable due to the hardware is lovely. What's bad is that Infineon is a foot-dragger. If not true, who knows? I'm still startled with 1/2 bar while a Q9h right next to my iPhone has full bars.
The nonpareil aspect of that rumor (if true) is that the hardware is first-string; once they can get the drivers fixed (or replaced), the units should be showy. Thinking "recall" is unecessary and overkill, the it question seems to be how quickly Apple can beat the fixes out of the vendor.
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