I deem these comments Appleogies! The responses meet the slick issue side stepping requirements that reeks of upper management and politicians.

Well done Appleogists!

(vomit)

Even if it is the chip (that magically ONLY doesn't work as they want in 3%(!!!) of the cases?) it would still be apple that selected that chip, and after doing some in-house research one assumes.

Still, if it's only 3% then that's still better than any device, or software for that matter, I know of.

Immature chipsets? Infineon had been supplying Radio Chipset to samsung and Samsung 3G phones work flawlessly.

If it's a radio protocol stack problem, then apple is to blame, but this problem repairable.

Couple of my PDA (mostly HTC) had crappy connections, but radio protocol ROM updates fixed that. :p

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Apple tweaked the 3G chipset configuration to improve battery life. We know they reduced the 3G data rate for this reason, other 3G phones are much faster than the iphone. They may have reduced radio receiver gain/sensitivity and output power for the same reason, which would significantly improve battery life as well. (Ask anyone whose played with different radio firmware on HTC smartphones. You can trade off a lot of battery life to get amazing reception if you want.)