3G-damn disaster

So, as I write this post from my insanely beastly iPhone 3G, I’m suffering. I’m standing in the NW section of Washington, DC (where I’ve been with only this phone as a connection to the interwebs: sad face) and my connection keeps dropping. Just like my calls. Seems like all of those Apple and AT&T ads were lies.

Then, I called AT&T. The kind rep was actually asking me about configuring the phone. In particular, he asked me if I could turn 3G off, like other phones apparently can. I found this to be a really weird way to respond to my question, “I just left Verizon, a company that never had me drop a call in 5 years. Care to explain why your all-over network made me drop a call to the same person, who was using Verizon, three times in about 5min time?”

Apparently, this dude gets iPhone calls all the time about this very problem. The moral: Apple couldn’t figure out how to tell this phone to switch bandwidths unless the phone is on it’s home screen. I told him how to disable 3G and he was grateful since he now has something to say to other customers. His previous MO was to transfer the calls to AppleCare, who certainly could/would do nothing. Moral: due to the phone and battery issues with this beast, people should just turn 3G off. Makes little sense to have purchased the new model over the old one, but it’s something we’ll have to do until the September fix Apple is prepping.

On the flip side, I don’t know of any other phone that would have a native program as easy as this to post on nerdpundit. As I get settled into the move, expect some random posts from the phone an me to get back into full swing sometime in September.