I recently updated my iPhone to the latest 2.1 release. There were a lot of improvements, but the one that interested me the most were improvements to the radio. I live in a cellular dead zone – I get a bar once and a while which is just enough to annoy me. Lately my iPhone goes “dark” at home and nothing but a reboot would get it connected back to the network when I left home. After upgrading the software I saw three bars! Could it be?
I made a phone call, pretty good quality call, just a tad of a “warble”. As I talked the bars when down to two, then to one. I walked around the house and got “bars” everywhere. This would be the first cell phone getting real reception in my house. Sounds good right?
Later I get a call upstairs (small miracle). Call doesn’t last long and drops. After trying several calls in different places in the house I see the same pattern. Start out with two or three bars, goes down as the call goes on. Sometimes it holds on; sometimes not.
So the question isn’t did the radio improve. The answer is YES! The question is did I get more bars in more places or just more pixels? Both I think. I think the bars seem inflated for what signal I really have (… more pixels), but it has improved.