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**Geert van den Berg** · 9th September 2008

There's a lot of complaining on the web and the streets about the iPhone's signal receive strength and dropped connections. (yesterday it was even an item in a dutch tv program here that deals with buyers complaints)

Also battery life is mentioned.

But after reading on the web, I am still not sure, if it's the phone or the telecom providers network.

Here's a link to a test done in Sweden which more or less proves that the iPhone itself isn't faulty. Iphone 3G antenna test - Teknik & trender - Göteborgs-Posten

But when I hold my iPhone and my old Sony-Ericsson side by side, the Sony does show lot more signal strength, however those tiny bars don't really say much offcourse.

Since I still have to sit out a contract on the old phone, I have not been calling a lot with the iPhone, I do use it to internet in the train going to and from work though. It works okay, except that for the first part of the trip there's almost no 3G coverage.

Offcourse to call you don't necessarily need 3G.

And you can turn off WIFI and 3G if you don't use it, so that would also safe batterylife a bit, I am not calling a lot, so standby times have been pretty good to me.

I kind of dig the app MobileFinder, I like to take PDF manuals with me to read in the train, the only problem I have witnessed is that it has problems opening large PDF's, I get a memory to low message. Sometimes re-opening the PDF one or two times, works. Or the PDF will open after a reboot. This probably has to do with the limited RAM in the phone (128MB) and the fact that some of the default apps, do stay active in some way in the background, and not clearing the RAM. I also have been splitting the really thick manuals, luckily this can easily be done on any Mac in the print screen, saving a section to a new file...

9th September 2008	#60
Geert van den Berg Mac Moderator Join Date: May 2003 Location: Amsterdam Posts: 3,433	There's a lot of complaining on the web and the streets about the iPhone's signal receive strength and dropped connections. (yesterday it was even an item in a dutch tv program here that deals with buyers complaints) Also battery life is mentioned. But after reading on the web, I am still not sure, if it's the phone or the telecom providers network. Here's a link to a test done in Sweden which more or less proves that the iPhone itself isn't faulty. Iphone 3G antenna test - Teknik & trender - Göteborgs-Posten But when I hold my iPhone and my old Sony-Ericsson side by side, the Sony does show lot more signal strength, however those tiny bars don't really say much offcourse. Since I still have to sit out a contract on the old phone, I have not been calling a lot with the iPhone, I do use it to internet in the train going to and from work though. It works okay, except that for the first part of the trip there's almost no 3G coverage. Offcourse to call you don't necessarily need 3G. And you can turn off WIFI and 3G if you don't use it, so that would also safe batterylife a bit, I am not calling a lot, so standby times have been pretty good to me. I kind of dig the app MobileFinder, I like to take PDF manuals with me to read in the train, the only problem I have witnessed is that it has problems opening large PDF's, I get a memory to low message. Sometimes re-opening the PDF one or two times, works. Or the PDF will open after a reboot. This probably has to do with the limited RAM in the phone (128MB) and the fact that some of the default apps, do stay active in some way in the background, and not clearing the RAM. I also have been splitting the really thick manuals, luckily this can easily be done on any Mac in the print screen, saving a section to a new file...