Plus, with all due respect, in your fever to defend apple you did not read my post. I am not complaining about 3G data speeds. The fact is in 3G mode it is a terrible phone p-h-o-n-e — missed and dropped calls. Apple in SF told me they all disable 3G!!! I sat at the genius bar for about an hour then came back for a second hour when they gave me a new phone and they must have disabled 3G for a couple of dozen people. One person after another walked up and they just disabled 3G time after time. The problem is likely to be switching bugs in the phone’s firmware.
No fever here. Just adding to the facts.
In some areas, the iPhone 3Gs are working excellently with the 3G signal... and in others abysmally. And that is world wide. For example, one responder from Elk Grove, CA, about 30 miles north of where I live, found excellent reception both as a phone and data rates of over 1600 bps. However, several respondents from other areas reported data rates below 200 bps on 3G and said that EDGE was faster. That seems to point to the network as the primary problem.
Another independent company that makes cell phone signal testers found that the iPhone was receiving and sending within proper parameters.
I stuck with my first generation iPhone.
On the other hand, Apple reports that only about 2% - 3% of iPhone 3Gs are having connection problems. They are looking at a batch of chips that may be bad.