Swedish engineers: iPhone 3G reception is ‘normal’
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 25, 2008 at 1:05pm
iPhone 3G offers “normal” reception, Swedish engineers who tested the smart phone said, adding to the controversy over recent user reports of dropped calls and slow surfing speeds, reports Computerworld.
According to the Goeteborgs-Posten , Sweden’s second-largest daily newspaper, tests done at Bluetest AB, a testing chamber manufacturer, showed that the iPhone 3G’s transmission and receiving results were “completely normal.” Bluetest compared the iPhone 3G’s numbers with those obtained from tests on a Sony Ericsson P1 and a Nokia N73.
The bottom line: the Sony Ericsson proved slightly better at receiving signals, and the N73 edged ahead of the iPhone at transmitting signals. But Bluetest considered even the largest difference, 2 dBm (decibels per milliwatt) between the iPhone and the Nokia in transmission power, as minor.
“It is not much,” the newspaper quoted Mats Andersson, Bluetest’s CEO, as saying. “At a difference of 4 to 6 dBm, one might start to wonder if there is anything wrong.”
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