Comments on: Is the iPhone 3G Buggy or Just Broken?

By: James

James — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:00:33 +0000

I’ve had an iPhone 3GS for a couple of weeks and have already had to erase the phone 3 times. First it became impossible to open any 3rd party apps – resetting the phone did not help, a complete erase was necessary. Then my iTunes music/video collection became corrupted while syncing and erased a purchase from my iPhone without copying it to my laptop – once again, an erase was necessary to fix the problem. I’ve had audio drop out completely in both the speakers and headphones, requiring a phone reset. I’ve had a ‘this accessory is not designed for iPhone’ message constantly appearing when no accessory was plugged into the device at all, once again resetting the phone does not help.

I think the iPhone is great almost all other aspects, but the high degree of buginess is very disappointing.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:08:12 +0000

About a month after I got my new iPhone 3G I managed to drop it and crack the screen. I thought I could surely take it into the Apple store and have it replaced. Little did I know I would be told that it would be $199 for the repair and the repair could take up to a week just to complete. I then found http://www.iphone3gscreenrepair.com. They offered the same repair for only $69.99. I sent my iPhone 3G in and had it back within 3 days. I was very impressed with my repair and would really recommend it to others looking for a great fix.

-Peter

By: Marti

Marti — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:55 +0000

My husband and I both got 3Gs and we’re both frustrated by the “No Service”, the delayed voicemail receipt, and other unreliability issues. We are also considering taking the them back. My previous phone was a Razr (which I supplemented with a Palm PDA), so I thought having it all (and more) in one device would make me more efficient. While that SHOULD be the case, the dang product is just not living up to its promise. It’s actually slowing me down! Shame on Apple for not testing the bugs out before releasing this version.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:50:33 +0000

I definitely have a horrible case of buyer’s remorse! I loved my iphone 3g for the first couple days, but it’s inconsistencies with 3g service, crashing, etc. are growing increasingly annoying. why can’t these ridiculous issues be solved? apple already made their money so i guess they don’t care.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0000

couldn’t agree more!! Aple should do something soon. Feel so bad with the decision going out buy the 3GIphone.

By: Bill D

Bill D — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:47:00 +0000

My first generation iPhone works fine, or rather as slow as usually on the Edge network. According to Businessweek’s sources, this problem MIGHT stem from an issue with Infineon’s chip that manages wireless communication in the phone.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097000494697.htm

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:08:59 +0000

Same here. My 3G locks up, gets incredible sluggish, restarts when playing songs in ipod mode. I’m seriously thinking about taking the thing back.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:11:09 +0000

although i do love my new 3g iphone, I do agree that it seems to still have its weird quirkiness even after loading the most recent firmware update. My original 2g iphone seemed to be more reliable.