Originally Posted By: wfaulk
And what was Apple's response to complaints about the iPhone 3G's poor 3G reception?

Not sure why this is relevant in a Nexus One thread, anyhow... They fixed the power issue discovered in the initial firmware with 2.0.2, roughly a month after the 3G went on sale.
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Essentially, the 2.0.2 updated the iPhone to ask for less power from AT&T's towers for UMTS voice and data transmission. Apparently iPhones were simply asking for too much power—more than the handsets actually required—and when many iPhone users were stacked on one base transceiver station tower, the tower simply ran out of power.


Outside of that, most of the 3G issues with the iPhone are due to AT&T overloading their network in cities like New York and San Francisco where high numbers of users are concentrated in small areas. 3G performance on the iPhone has generally been at the same levels as other phones on networks around the world.

I haven't dug too deeply into the Nexus One 3G issues to compare though, nor do I know if they are isolated to just the T-Mobile 3G units.