Started Seeing 'No Service' Since 3.1 ...

Hi,

I hope someone can offer some advice here - I'm new to both iPhone and Apple in general.

I've had the phone (3GS 32GB) for about a month and have always had 3G enabled. I'm on O2 in the UK and two things have become clear: O2s 3G coverage is not the best and the iPhone's 3G reception (when compared to other phones in the same location using the same carrier) is quite poor. Other than missing the speed, this has not greatly troubled me so far - it just goes to Edge or GPRS and life continues.

I installed 3.1 a couple of days ago and since then 3G reception has been worse. Even more of a problem is that I've started seeing lots of 'No Service' messages instead of it dropping back to Edge or GPRS. Disabling 3G puts it back to normal but then I can never take advantage of 3G on the rare occasion that the iPhone gets a good signal. Is anyone else experiencing this and, if so, is there any kind of setting or work-round I can apply?

As a bit of a separate rant, I'm in a love-hate relationship with this thing. I've come from a business class WM PDA and just love the interface and integration of the iPhone. Unfortunately, it verges on the incompetent or archaic is most other areas - including no persistent notification of missed calls/VM, no track skip in bluetooth, poor 3G performance comapred to almost any other phone held alongside and on the same carrier, no automatic clock set for O2 users, no way to save files, no bluetooth beaming, removal of tethering option even on unlocked phones with a tethering-accepting carrier, no way to have emails in one common inbox, no notes/todo sync from exchange etc).

It's a keeper but makes business use very frustrating and wasn't really what I expected at this price point. As soon as I develop the nerve for it, I'll try jailbreaking as it seems to address many of the limitations. I'm really trepidatious about this though and would appreciate anyone's perceptions or experiences before trying it.

Regards

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