IPhone user files suit, citing slow downloads
Published: Thu, Aug. 21, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Aug. 21, 2008 02:01AM
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closeBIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- Apple is being sued over claims that its new iPhone 3G drops calls and doesn't download Web pages and music at twice the rate of its predecessor, as the company advertises.
The iPhone 3G, which relies on a new high-speed worldwide standard to download data, connects to the network "less than 25 percent of the time," according to a complaint filed in federal court in Birmingham, Ala.
Plaintiff Jessica Smith seeks class-action, or group, status on behalf of other consumers. Apple advertises the iPhone 3G as being "twice as fast. Half the price." Smith "noticed that her Internet connection, receipt and sending of e-mail, text messages and other data transfers through the device were slower than expected and advertised," and she experienced "an inordinate amount of dropped calls," according to her complaint.
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