Blackberry Bold Having 3G Issues?
- Filed under: Tech News
- Date: Aug 24,2008
Move over iPhone. Reports are that RIM’s upcoming Blackberry Bold is having similar 3G reception problems. While not available in the U.S. yet, the Bold has been released in a few countries.
Barron’s reports info from Citigroup analyst Jim Suva:
“We had a few occasional 3G signal dropping troubles at some locations especially on high-rises building streets & on our 34th floor (EDGE picked up immediately but slower internet speeds).”
It should be noted that at least the Bold is dropping into EDGE. The iPhone is just sitting in 3G mode for those with issues, but with very low signal strength.
As I’ve reported, however, a bigger worry is that similar 3G phones sitting right next to the iPhone have excellent 3G signal strength, pointing a problem of some type with the reception of the iPhone.
The Bold uses a 624-Mhz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor which incorporates the HSDPA modem and applications processor on one chip. At least it’s not using the same Infineon chipset as the iPhone, so perhaps speculation that the 3G issues on the iPhone can be fixed with software will still be true.
At any rate, it has to be annoying to AT&T that two of its new and highest profile 3G phones are having 3G problems.
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