Apple Slapped With New ’3G Speed’ Lawsuit

Apple faces another lawsuit over iPhone 3G performance. The latest, a class-action lawsuit filed in Northern California, asks a court to award more than $5 million to iPhone 3G buyers.

In the 14-page lawsuit, California resident Jason Medway alleges Apple knew the “iPhone 3G cannot maintain consistent service” and has only offered buyers replacement phones.

The legal action claims iPhone 3G purchasers “have experienced broken promises regarding the phone’s transmission speeds.”

Despite allegedly knowing of the technical problems, Apple continued to mount a “multimillion-dollar television and print advertising campaign for the iPhone 3G,” according to the lawsuit.

In his complaint, Medway and “thousands” of other Californian iPhone 3G owners, ask for more than $5 million, including repaying the purchase price of their iPhones, iPhone profits, interest and lawyers’ fees.

AT&T was not a defendant in the lawsuit.

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Lucas
i love how ATT isn’t even a co-defendent in these cases when several studies have shown that the iphone and pretty much every so called 3g smartphone is actually operating just as it should for such speeds and it’s almost certainly the carrier that is the issue. as in not enough bandwidth
this is basically suing Apple because your 802.11g laptop is still the same speed with a brand new 802.11n airport express connector, so the airport express must be broken.
or because no one told you that you have to have a computer to put music on your nano.