A woman in Birmingham Alabama is suing Apple because she says her iPhone 3G coverage is too spotty — that is, she can’t get a signal as often as she would like.  Instead, like many of us, she’s relegated to the EDGE network and her iPhone must run at slower speeds.  The lady is upset because Apple’s ads claimed “twice as fast; half the price”, and without 3G, the iPhone’s speed is anything but twice as fast. (Coincidentally, it’s still half the price. That part of Apple’s claim isn’t in question.)

For its part, Apple has more or less stated that they’re trying to fix the spotty 3G issue by adding a fix for it to the 2.0.2 patch, but this isn’t enough to satisfy the plaintiff, whose lawsuit weighs in at ten pages in length.  Perhaps if Apple’s legal defense fund wasn’t eating into their giant (and I mean giant) cash position, this quality issue may’ve been budgeted for. Seriously, it’s software lady. Public pressure has a way of working these things out, lawsuit or not.

Tags: 2.0.2, apple, business

2.0.2 was supposed to improve the speed of Safari, improve the speed and stability of text entry, and even eek out improved battery performance.  Now that it’s been in the wild 48 hours, has anybody been able to confirm any of these improvements with this release?  Well, apparently not.  Here are more iPhone firmware reports.

• iPhone, There I Blog talks about the lack of visible changes in the 2.0.2 release.
  
• The iPhone Blog talks about what’s coming in the 2.1 release according to Steve Jobs.

Tags: 2.0.2, apple, firmware