
I bloody KNEW it!
Not about the iPhone. although the fact that they might actually have decent performance in this area might be down to a friend of mine named Sean Cody, who frankly probaly thrashed the thing into shape. We worked together in protocol testing at Panasonic for a long time, where we used to do massive drive testing to etst 2G / 3G handovers.
I wrote an app while at Panasonic which you scripted to notice and speak when it saw these handovers occur, then the driver (another friend of mine who works where I do now) would keep driving until he heard the laptop tell him the test was complete. Worked pretty well...
As a result, our phones were bloody good a 2G / 3G handovers. The fact that the Blackberry isn't doesn't surprise me one bit - american trash, plastic crap, god-awful UI - why should the protocol stack be anything other than cack as well? The Nokia I do find a surprise, you'd think they'd have that right at least. My old P990 does OK, and it's symbian 9...
Smartphones? Shite, frankly - not tested properly, software bulging at the seams, battery life crap... at least the iPhone keeps the basics intact!
You drive through J10 on the M4 and see if your 3G handover works... try J14 as well, that one's a hoot, espcially on O2.