Something I've been wondering about a long time. The new iPhone drops more calls than the old one. Arrington is using a pre-paid AT&T phone and has "rock solid" reception (per his post). My old AT&T phone works in my basement with full bars and my iPhone does not. But in all your writing, you've never bothered to consider that maybe, just maybe, Apple makes great software and computers yet, with only 4 years in the game....bad phones? In your words, AT&T is too scared to defend itself......
Asked by Anonymous
There is no question that the iPhone is not a great phone — it’s a great device, not a great phone. In the U.S., hopefully soon we’ll see how bad it is compared to other smartphones when it gets on at least one more network.
I never seem to hear too many complaints from countries not covered by AT&T though. And when I was in Japan a few months ago, the iPhone (3GS, at the time) worked great — much better than it ever has on AT&T stateside.
But yes, AT&T is also scared shitless to defend itself.
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