OXiL SOFTWARE

In my previous article, my largest complaint was the touch screen failing to respond properly at critical moments. Fortunately, I have not had any similar issues since upgrading to revision 3.0 of the OS. I do not know if the OS upgrade changed anything or if I have somehow improved my 'gesturing'. However, my gesturing must still need improving as I have only just recently made a single successful 'cut and paste'.

My current complaint is on telephone reception. It is anecdotal evidence only, but I believe I had much better reception with my previous Nokia E61i and Vodaphone than I now have with my iPhone 3G (3.0.1) and O2. Two examples: in an Oxford restaurant I had "No service" so I walked a block away until I had the tiniest reception bars showing to make a call to my wife. I accidentally called my daughter (she was dining with me and had remained at the table) who is also on O2 but has a very cheap Nokia clam shell phone. Later that week, I was in the countryside with friends. Their son needed to make a call but he had run out of credits on his Vodafone connected Samsung phone. I offered to make the call on my trendy iPhone but was unable: "No service". I looked at the young man's phone - three signal reception bars.

From this it would seem both that the iPhone is less sensitive and that O2 (mandated by Apple) has weaker coverage. This combination does give me pause.