
The stellar launch of Apple’s incredibly popular iPhone 3G has been dented by a class action lawsuit was lodged in America. Britons up and down the country camped overnight in July for their chance to buy the ‘new and improved’ iPhone, which combines a mobile phone, internet access and digital music player.
But some customers claim they have reported problems with the 3G hardware, alleging that they had experienced missed calls and slow internet downloads. More than 5,000 topics were posted on Apple’s own online support forum. Apple released an update to the iPhone software that was sent out to phones this week, but did not give details of the problems that it fixed.
One customer, Jessica Smith from Alabama, decided to file a legal complaint in the district court against the U.S based company on August 19th. She said the handset had been ‘aggressively’ marketed as a phone that was ‘twice as fast for half the price’ compared to the old iPhone. Apple’s American website still has the slogan emblazoned across the page.
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