IPhone3G that reception problem is cleard will be coming???

Japan user called Apple Japan to ask about bad reception problem.
and Apple Japan said that iPhone 3G that reception problem is cleared will be coming soon.
I think reception problem is Hardware issue not a Sofware issue...
any thought?

In these days of complex problems nobody in their right mind designs a hardware chip for a mobile phone network that isn't programmable. Many of these chips have microcode or firmware. So they're part hardware and part software, this allows the code to be updated to work around problems.
Personally I don't get any problems with my phone, I don't get 3G much but then I live in an area where it isn't widespread on O2.

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Hello Everyone,
This is my first post on here and I just wanted to show everyone something very interesting that I discovered about IOS 4.0
I recently updated my Iphone 3GS to IOS 4.0 BUT I never updated my wife's Iphone 3GS, her phone is still running 3.1.3
I did a little experiment and I think that the Iphone 4's reception problem is Software related. My 3GS does the same exact thing the Iphone 4 is doing, yet my wife's 3GS running 3.1.3 is not. Please watch the video I made to better understand.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muw0s-0gSNs

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My theory about lack of official response to 3G reception problem

If it's a real problem I think Apple isn't responding because then it would make news everywhere. If it can be fixed with a firmware upgrade then the problem goes away on it's own without having to acknowledge anything. Sure, there will be the few (relatively speaking) people who know they had the problem, but nobody will care once it's resolved.
I actually think the lack of a response might be a good thing because they think they can fix it in firmware. If they can't fix it with a firmware upgrade then they are just digging a deeper hole with every new iPhone they sell.
Of course, my theory could be totally wrong. But in a way I think it makes sense.

+If you read other forums, it's quite clear that the 3G reception issues only happen with US customers+
Not so.. people also post about problems in Switzerland, UK, Japan, Australia... etc.
Its not the signal strength showing on the display but the dropped calls that are the real concern for people.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1602608&tstart=0&start=855
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Signal reception problem? its not the iphone its...

Ok after i read through MANY people problems ive realized they are blaming the iphone 4 itself .... WRONG
Test 1 well i still had my 3g and 3gs both of them were OS 3. whatever i forgot both EXCELLENT RECEPTION but as everyone know the IPHONE 4 had bad reception even without touching the 2 BLACK LINES sometimes it goes to 1 bar for some reason.
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Test 3 so now i UPDATED MY 3G to OS 4 and held the bottem..... can you guess what happen the reception to went down to 1
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