Over the last few weeks I’ve found that I cannot send text messages from my iPhone (O2) to my wife’s Motorola RAZR (T-Mobile), and she cannot send messages back.
Of course, I assumed this is because the iPhone software is buggy and/or Mr Jobs doesn’t want us to use SMS or some other conspiracy theory.
Upgrading the software on the iPhone to 2.0 didn’t help.
Restarting the phone (having to do that a lot recently) didn’t help.
I even called O2 and asked if there was a long standing network problem between mine and my wife’s network/phone.
Texting to/from other people seemed fine.
Anyways, this morning I was astounded to find four text messages from my wife on the iPhone. Imagine my surprise!
Turns out, she turned her RAZR off and on, and now it all works fine.
Not sure what we can learn from this, but possibly one or more of:
- Never assume it’s your iPhone that’s broken.
- Never assume it’s the network.
- Never assume a v1 RAZR is incapable of blowing goats.
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Don’t tell me you had to resort to voice comms before everything fixed itself?
Indeed, although a few emails might have been involved too
Having owned one of those Motorola RAZR things myself (a V3), my assessment is that the software is more buggy that the version 1 avionics of an Airbus. Texting would stop working frequently, as would calls - both of which could only be resolved by removing the battery. After I had the phone for about 12 months, the keyboard backlight stopped working, and would only function at times of special celebration (Bar Mitzvahs and the like). Knowing some of the people that work on the software - I can understand why.
I’ve generally found the iPhone software to be pretty good, considering it’s fairly new. There are definitely some 2G/3G transition issues, but that’s one of the most tricky things to get right.
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