Newton’s Lore

Roughlydrafted reports that iPhone dropped calls are due to firmware versions prior to 2.0.2 requiring too much transmit power from the cell. So it isn’t necessarily fixed when you upgrade your phone, the situation improves as everyone else on the cell upgrades as well!

For the technically inclined a commenter linked to this blog on “Power control in UMTS”

Tags: cell, firmware_2_0_2, iphone_3g, umts

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