Apple exchanging some iPhones?
Is it bugging you?
(Credit: CNET Networks)Apple forums are buzzing with reports from several iPhone users that their shiny new gadgets are suffering from poor call volume and dismal battery life. Indeed, CNET's own photo production manager said his iPhone, which he purchased last Friday, was plagued with such issues. Though we felt the call volume on our review iPhone was somewhat low, we haven't experienced any battery issues. In fact, we've experienced impressive battery life times in our CNET Labs tests.
So we want to know, is this happening to you? Are you experiencing dismal battery life and unacceptable call volume? We've heard from several people--our photo production manager among them--that Apple is replacing its iPhones in Apple stores. And once that's happened, most performance problems vanish. Apple tech support wouldn't confirm that an official exchange program is underway, and the company hasn't issued any service bulletins, either. So please tell us, is your iPhone giving you problems?
Kent German is a senior editor for cell phone reviews at CNET. When he's not testing the newest handsets on the market, he's blogging about cell phone news for Crave. In his On Call column, he answers reader questions and gives his take on the rapidly changing mobile industry. E-mail Kent. 
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sound from callers if anything.
I experienced poor battery life on one of the first days I used it and
discovered it
was because I left WiFi on and it was trying to connect to an open WiFi signal
that required you to pay. Since then I only turn on WiFi when I know there is a
signal that I want to access rather then the iPhone always searching. A big
battery saver.
I pretty happy with my iPhone
I find it's easier to make a call with the earbuds than through the slightly uncomfortable handset anyway (makes my ear hurt a little.) It also makes it easier to do things like check your appointment calendar while in the middle of a call anyway.
I went to the apple store the next day and the "apple genius" there told me any problems a customer was having with the iphone that couldn't be fixed with a restore were given new iphones. The reason he gave was that the product was so new that training on how to fix the iphone hasn't been done yet.
So no battery life or sound issues for me, but i can confirm apple is exchanging iphones with issues.
Also, my new iphone is working great and the apple employees were very helpful.
swear is under the glass but above the LCD... Also anyone else's battery take
FOREVER to charge the last 10 percent or so?
1) My battery, too, seems to take a LONG time to charge the last 10%.
2) The speaker is barely loud enough to hear my phone ringing in a moderately noisy environment. I wish that music came through more clearly, too, but it's often distorted. I'm sure I could fix this with some EQ settings in iTunes, but should that really be necessary?
In any case, it doesn't sound too bad considering its size, but I do wish it were a little louder.
phone is useless. If I cannot use it as a phone, I don't want it! I have an i-pod
and an apple lap top! The phone functions have to work rock soild!!! Therefore
before I go and buy it again, the volume levels have to be fixed....
acceptable. Speakerphone volume needs a big boost though. As far as battery
life, I guess I got really lucky. I bought mine at 11PM on Friday and used it until
the initial charge that it shipped with ran out at about 3AM to web browse over
Wifi and make calls. I charged it overnight, then with about four hours of calls,
several hours of music and wifi browsing, and watching an episode of Ugly Betty,
it lasted until Sunday night (even then I had 20% left). I seem to be charging it
every other night at this point, with medium-heavy usage.
stop since June 29th, and it has stood up well to it. What I'm really waiting
for are fixes for the quirky and unfinished portions of the software. Where is
the dictionary.com widget? Why does flipping the phone into coverflow take
you out of a playlist into album sorting? Why is there no custom ringers?
Why can't I change the text email and voicemail alerts? Other than those
gripes i can say the iphone is all but perfect in a mobile device.
Below is a list of why I am not crazy about the iPhone.
1) KEYBOARD: Steve Jobs said, "give it a week and you'll be typing just as fast as before". Wrong!. I don't even have big fingers and I still hit the wrong letter when I write messages. Also, the corrections aren't much help. Sure they work sometimes, but most of the time it just annoys you by placing the wrong word.
2) EMAIL: On my Treo, I could send an email with multiple attachments (up to ten pictures). With the iPhone, you can only send one picture per email (unless I haven't found the invisible button to send more than one).
3) VOLUME: I am 24 years old, and my hearing is not going bad, but trying to hold a conversation by holding the iPhone to my ear makes me feel like I am going deaf! The speaker on my phone isn't much better. The good thing is that included in the box is pair of earphones that have really great sound quality, but who wants to put on earphones every time you want to make a call.
4) PHANTOM HOME BUTTON: This has happened to me 5 times in the last week. I will be on Google maps, and in the middle of a search, the screen with go to the home screen without touching the home button. Must be a ghost!
5) PLASTIC SCREEN PROTECTORS: I need one, and none of the Apple stores in my area (Palo Alto, Stanford, Valley Fair, Oakridge) have them!
6) EDGE SUCKS: When you are on the go, finding a Wi-Fi hotspot without password protection can be a little hard. Relying on the EDGE network can make you want to cancel your service, pay the fees and go back to a Treo.
Hopefully, the people at Apple are working to fix these problems, because the test engineers sure didn't fix of these problems before 6/29/07!
I find that both putting the phone to my ear and enabling speakerphone i cannot hear hardly anything. at first i thought i was doing something wrong but, i checked all the settings, made sure volume was at max. anyone know if you can take it back to an apple store or if you have to go through hell to get it replaced?
suddenly the program would close and go to the main menu. That happened 4x
after I kept restarting the ipod. However when I turned off the iphone and turned
it back on, it was working smoothly again. Anyone having the same problems?
ring tones or any sounds.
AT&T was no help whatsoever (of course).
Apple was polite and helpful but there was a mixup and it took about a 7
days of back and forth to get my exchanged phone instead of the original
estimate of 2 days. In spite of the mixup apple was very professional and
courteous making multiple followup calls to make sure I had received the
phone and all was OK.
The quality of the customer service made up for the lemon I got.
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- All of a sudden, yesterday whenever I go to a site the browser closes automatically even before the full site finished loading. It didn't happen to apple.com but it happened to other sites like news.yahoo.com, pgatour.com etc. I know there is issue with flash sites but I don't think there is any flash in yahoo news site. Does anyone else experience this issue?
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- by surfnturf57 November 11, 2007 10:05 PM PST
- I have experienced many instances where the Safari Browser returns to the main menu while browsing without any user input. This is especially annoying when you have to log onto a website to gain access. When returning to the browser, re-log-in is required.
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (28 Comments)If Apple is providing a viable web browser via the iphone/safari as claimed, this MUST be fixed as well as supporting ANY web content, especially FLASH and JAVA.