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Friday June 29, 2007
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Yowtch! We had known before that the iPhone would have the GSM buzz - that annoying "dit-dit-dit-BZZ" effect in speakers that all GSM phones have - but we hadn't thought it would be this bad. Tim Gideon is testing our iPhone around his Editor's Choice Chestnut Hill Sound George dock, and putting the phone anywhere within several inches of the dock creates harsh, loud interference every few minutes. Plop the phone into the dock and the phone suggests that you should put it in airplane mode - but when you do, there's one last blast of GSM buzz before it goes silent.
This would have been one other advantage of the iPhone going 3G, other than faster Web surfing. AT&T's 3G network doesn't have GSM buzz (as it isn't GSM) -- which would be music to iPod speaker fans' ears.
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July 5, 2007 3:07 PM
Yah, I got hte same problem. I can't put the phone anywhere near (up to 6 feet) any other phones, even if the other phone is a land line phone, I get a crazy buzzing sound, I have banned the Iphones from my office. I hope apple will have a quick fix for this problem or upgrade the next generation to 3G ASAP.
July 16, 2007 10:35 AM
I'm not sure this can be called a GSM buzz. I've used a Moto V-600 GSM phone for three years and never had a buzz. I just acquired an iPhone and it buzzes my computer speakers. In the car, paired via Bluetooth to a hands-free system, the in-car buzz is bad but not audible to callee. The V-600 never did that.
March 16, 2008 12:07 PM
I've had similar issues with my iPhone. When within a foot of the monitor- it causes a slight buzzing-ticky noise and computer screens to flicker and display thin grey horizontal lines- usually 30 seconds before receiving a text message or incoming call- but sometimes just spontaneously. I've heard it's called a RFI Interference and caused by the iPhone trying to make connections. However, I always keep all my Wi-Fi settings off. It also will interfere with TV screens and computers in my school- even if I'm on the side of the classroom. Stranger still- is has the same effect on my stereo AND alarm clock- which is a very old, simple, standard "i tell time and nothing else" clock. I always thought it was something to do with what kind of emissions all these objects were sending out- however I accidentally discovered something that makes me think otherwise. I fell asleep on my iPhone the other night- and woke up to hear the exact same buzzing noise and flicker under my ear. It was coming from the phone. I have no knowledge on how these things work- but contagious buzzing noises don't seem normal.
April 29, 2008 7:58 PM
First off, I really want to love the iPhone, but I can't. I received it on April 5, and today is April 24, and I hate it more than the Treo 650 and 700's I've dealt with over the past three years.
The iPhone is a poorly designed, incredibly buggy device that technologically is a major failure on many fronts. The hardware and software DO NOT LIVE up to the hype. I always wait at least a year or more to purchase new products from Apple, but with the iPhone I should have waited three or more years.
From the lack of tactile keys that is supposed to be the best interface ever designed for a smart phone, yet results in 40% keystroke entry mistakes to the distortion that the iPhone feeds out to every audio and video device on the planet, it's the worst communications device I have ever experienced.
The iPhone distorts my computer screen, the car audio system to all loudspeakers, either active or passive, including high-end shielded near-field studio monitors, from my Apple iSticks on my computer, high-end surround sound stereo system in my living room to the frigging clock radio.
The static this iPhone kicks out to loudspeakers in my home is HOUSE WIDE, and I am in a 1400 square foot home. If the iPhone is on my kitchen table 15 feet away from my livingroom stereo system, I will still have iPhone distortion come out through the loudspeakers HOUSE WIDE. This is supposed to be an audiophile device and all it does is dump static onto every loudspeaker I stand next to, in every environment.
I have a CRT monitor and I know I am going to get an SMS, email or phone call to the iPhone, because several seconds before the message is received, the entire 17-inch computer screen distorts for as long as 5 seconds, throwing it completely out of focus.
Why the heck does this iPhone not have a pop-up keyboard find function in the database? I have 6300 names in my contact database and it can take 90-seconds or more to find a name through scrolling!
Why doesn't the iPhone have the same pop-up keyboard feature as in the SMS or Safari function so I can start typing a name and have the contact app bring up the name as I type the letters, as similar to the contact find feature on the Treo? C'mon - how the heck do you not have that common-sense feature? What about a voice find feature OR VOICE ACTIVATED DIALING for the contact database?
Now this really makes me nuts - Safari goes buggy every five days, it crashes more and more frequently and then I need to reset the phone and then I loose all my presets! This is the worst part of the phone. Additionally, regardless web searching is PAINFULLY SLOW! Five minutes to bring up www.huffingtonpost.com or www.rawstory.com, only to have it crash when I try to enlarge an article... argh.
Why on earth does it take SMS up to 10 or more seconds to start and present my message string? Ten seconds for this app to start - gimme a break!
No video function? I can't capture video? Not even a few seconds? Argh.
I can't send a picture through SMS? Good lord.
What the heck is the deal with the recessed headphone plug that makes it impossible to use a standard 3.5mm stereo plug? Now I have to purchase a third-part adapter to use other head phones on a plane or the cassette car adapter? C'mon.
Clearly, the iPhone is the Emperor's New Clothes. It's a perfect example if you throw enough advertising, PR and marketing dollars at something, millions of people will eat dirt and call it fillet mignon.
Christopher B.
May 22, 2008 11:18 AM
I love my iPhone, BUT, when I have it near my Westinghouse flat-panel computer display, the GSM noise will literally lock up the monitor's circuitry to where I have to pull out the power cord, count 30 seconds, and then plug it back in to get it working again! The iPhone is banished to the far side of the desk!
June 15, 2008 6:40 PM
At first I thought my stereo was on the fritz, when I heard the buzzing sound coming from it's speakers -- usually when the stereo was OFF. (Creepy, right?) Then I took my iPhone with me in my Subaru -- and heard the same buzz AGAIN. I realized the only common element in both cases was the iPhone. Also, the radio was OFF in my car, but the iPhone RFI somehow penetrated the circuitry and produced a buzz. This is a really weird problem. Let's hope it doesn't rattle our brains, giving us brain tumors or something...
Is the iPhone's transmission of radio frequency stronger than that of a "normal" cell phone?
Thanks!
September 2, 2008 6:39 PM
IPhone 3g has a HORRIBLE GSM buzz (I just bought a 3G). The 3G network (which is a type of GSM by the way) does not solve the buzz problem. I literary cannot use it in my car if my car stereo is ON. I had lots of GSM phones before that and even if I had some buzz from time to time, it was OK. This one is unbearable. I will most likely return this thing!
February 3, 2009 11:04 PM
My iPhone 3G buzzes a lot of things, but my life isn't that high tech (and there are no medical issues) so I don't really mind. The point made by the huffingtonpost and rawstory reader in a previous posting, about the error-prone keyboard, is well-taken. I got a sweet little app called ShapeWriter and fairly breeze through my correspondence now. By the way, those two websites are notoriously slow-loading on a good day and real computer. ;-)