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Infineon blamed for dodgy Iphone connections
REPORTS OF DROPPED connections on the Iphone could be down to a dodgy network communications chip made by Infineon, according to an analyst at Nomura.
Reuters dug up a report by Nomura European Telecoms Analyst Richard Windsor who wrote this week: "We believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain that Infineon is the 3G supplier."
"There are too many instances on IPhone blogs and Apple's own website for it to be coincidence. Furthermore, it is not just the U.S. but other countries as well," he said.
Businessweek carried a report online that also blamed Infineon. It said the fault afflicts two or three per cent of Iphone traffic.
Neither Apple and Infineon have deigned to comment.
We can make up an Apple comment though: "Of course it's not our fault. We are put on this earth to spread joy and enlightenment, not woe and misfortune. If one of our toys won't work it can't be our fault. Steve Jobs is our leader therefore we are infallible. We blame the Germans. µ
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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.)