Sound quality is extremely poor out of iPhone head jack.

I have tried every EQ setting the phone has and the sound quality is no way even close to my old Dell MP3 player. It is so bad I am keeping my Dell JukeBox and not using the phone. Why is it so bad? Doesn't Apple have a clue?

+Maybe all the extra electronics on the iPhone (wifi/bluetooth/EDGE) is interfering with the sound coming out.+
You might be right -- you can do some testing by using your phones with another iPod or device as close to the iPhone as you normally use your headphones and see if the interference is still there. If so, it's the iPhone (interference is unlikely to go down the wire, particularly two or three feet away).
I'm with the majority here -- sound is superb (at least on the movies I play -- I don't play music on my iPhone as that's what my Nano is for :>)

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