iPhones are being marketed as the next best thing providing instant access to the web, allowing you to watch films, play music and store photos. For business people out on the road this new technology can be a great asset providing constant access to the office whilst allowing some leisure time in between meetings. However it appears that these phones are not all they seem and for some people they have been crashing and have become simply unusable.

This problem has been dubbed as ‘coma mode’ and when your iPhone is afflicted you will not be able to make or receive calls or emails. The phone is useless until you go through a ‘hard reboot’ which is like rebooting a PC when it crashes. To make matters worse you might not notice the phone is in ‘coma mode’ until you pick it up to use it meaning it could be down for hours before you notice there’s a problem.

One iPhone user, Paul Hatton resorted to carrying around a spare mobile phone in case his iPhone failed. He recalled:

“With no warning or indication as to why it happened the wifi access failed completely. (The phone) was not working properly, it became unstable. People would dial in and the tone would be that of a phone that’s been cut off and it would go to sleep. It would fall into what’s referred to as a coma.”

It seems that the problems are due to applications or ‘apps’ as they are called by Apple. These ‘apps’ offer many nifty benefits such as GPS but they can also create issues. He explained:

“The difficulty is that it’s a skittish kind of a thing. It doesn’t happen every time, it just happens in certain circumstances depending on how much you have stored on the Apple phone, how many applications you have, which applications you have and which version of the operating system.”

To keep up to date with this issue read mobile phone reviews and make sure you know how well their products are performing before you buy one. There are plenty of sites like Ciao and Blagger.com to check out.

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