I’ve discovered that is all I need to say now after I re-call someone I just got disconnected from when using my iPhone.
Sad.
The best mobile device in the world is quickly becoming the most distrusted piece of technology in my life. I didn’t realize it until today when I stopped to think that I now:
- Schedule conference calls around when I’ll be near a land-line
- Preface important calls with “… I’m on an iPhone, so if we get disconnected, I’ll call back.”
- Interrupt people who call my cell to ask if I can call them back from another line
- Often use the phrase “Sorry, iPhone” to explain I got cut off
Its been YEARS since I did any of those things consistently. Cell phone technology has been pretty dang good for the last few years and call quality and reliability reached a point where it didn’t really matter what phone I was using – the cell phone was nearly as good as a land line. But the iPhone is quickly undoing that.
Now… I’ve been an iPhone user since day one. Literally. It seems that this problem has become much worse in the last 30 days. Which prompted me to wonder: what changed?
- iPhone software update
- Enabling push notifications on EchoFon (a Twitter app)
- Notes Traveler
I disabled #2. I’ll roll back to the previous version to address #1 if #2 doesn’t fix it. And I sure as heck hope that #3 has nothing to do with any of this. Because “I heart Traveler.”
Tags: iphone, traveler, why we got disconnected from that call
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