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Complaints about AT&T’s network are heard almost as frequently as praise for the iPhone, and so it seems almost surprising that the carrier has taken this long to push out an error-reporting tool for the Apple smartphone. AT&T Mark the Spot – available as a free download from the iTunes store [iTunes link; US only] – uses GPS to track down the iPhone users’ position and then allows them to choose from a number of problems encountered.
Those problems can include a dropped call, failed call, lack of coverage, data failure or poor voice quality, and the user can also indicate whether the issue has happened once, seldom, often or always. An “additional info” option allows for longer issue descriptions. We’re guessing that the feedback report is then saved until a working connection is established.
Apple have quietly updated 
iPhone security is a hot topic, and so when a developer takes to the stage to describe how rogue applications could “harvest personal data” on an unmodified iPhone without a user realising, you know there’s going to be some coverage. Nicolas Seriot gave a talk about iPhone Privacy in Geneva this week, and 
