iPhone 3G Power Adapter Recall - What’s Next?
Things just keep getting worse for Apple.
Not only was I one of the stupid ones that waited in line for this phone that has honestly had nothing but issues. From the numerous firmware updates (3 of them to date) of which NONE have made any improvements on my battery life.
Now they have a recall on the Power Adapter that shipped with the iPhone 3G as apparently the metal prongs can break off and get stuck in the electrical outlet creating a risk for electric shock. Gee don’t you think that would have been thoroughly tested by the company that made them?
In my opinion Apple is so greedy that its willing to ship a product that ‘they know has issues’ just to get their revenue pumping and then deal with the issues as the customers complain.
They should spend less money on advertising and more money on their QA department.
Now I have to wait 3 weeks for a replacement adapter and am urged to use a USB cable to charge my phone, so this is another inconvenience for me… Way to go Apple.. A 1st time customer with nothing but bad things to say about your product!! Woo Hoo!!
iPhone 3G - 2.1 update
As highly anticipated this release was, some of the main fixes focused on:
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
- Reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Genius playlist creation
My opinion and actual results for so:
- Its even worse, with 3G enabled my battery is 3/4 of the way drained with no phone calls in less than 6 hours since being unplugged from the charger
- Lost 4 calls alone yesterday with full signal strength in the 3G area
- Yea thats better
- This is the biggest improvement so far for me
- Still a little laggy for me, could be better
- Genius… Pandora is still better and should have worked after the 2.1 update instead of having to sync the phone again
I am honestly NOT impressed with Apple and their progress on these updates. My battery life absolutely sucks ass and is far from acceptable… Why should I have to turn off 3G, Push etc just to make it through the day. Just fix the damn problem!!
They keep delaying things people want and where basically promised in the 2.1 release. Maybe we’ll have to wait for 3.0 for us to get everything we want…. but then they will probably make us pay for the update!!
My good ole Samsung Blackjack maybe coming out of retirement if this shit keeps up!!
iPhone 3G
Well, they made enough enhancements for me to finally want to buy an iPhone. So this morning I woke up at 5am and just knew I should head out to the store early just in case. I arrived at the AT&T store around 5:45am and was happy to see I was the 12th person in line. Luckily there was a Panera Bread opened right next store which allowed me to get some coffee and a bagel.
The people waiting in line where using Panera Breads outdoor tables that where equipped with umbrellas which worked out well during the on/off rain during my 2 hour wait.
At 7:55am everyone started to line up towards the door and nicely enough they would only allow 6 people in at a time as there where 6 clerks working the counters. By the time I got to go in ALL the 16GB models where sold out already and there where some pretty irate customers complaining, but each store only received so many of each model. Regardless I was only buying the 8GB model so I didn’t honestly care. The process was simple being a current AT&T customer, so with that said I was out of the store by 8:30am with the phone fully working.
As soon as I got to work I configured my Exchange credentials and all my emails/contacts where synced up in seconds. See things can be simple.
I haven’t been able to test it out fully as I am working a full day.. I may post a review in a couple weeks, but as for right now, this thing is fantastic.
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