According to an email response received from a MacRumors reader purportedly from Steve Jobs, the iPhone 3G connectivity issue affects 2 percent of iPhones shipped and is fixable through a software update. The email response was as follows:
We are working on some bugs which affect around 2% of the iPhones shipped, and hope to have a software update soon.
Steve
According to a poll in my 14 August story about the issue 64 percent or respondents said that they were having problems with their iPhone 3G data reception.
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