If the first thoughts when buying an iPhone 3G were something like “it’s really worth waiting in line for this,” some owners now begin to believe it would have been better to just go get a cup of coffee (this would have given them less headaches).

Apple is hoping for crazy iPhone 3G sales, but it does little to encourage even more people to buy it. The company seems to be unable to fix a recently reported glitch that has been linked to dropped calls and unstable data connections.

This week, Apple came up, as promised, with a firmware update (version 2.02), nut unfortunately, it did pretty much nothing to fix the connection issues, and in some cases, even created a whole new set of problems that did not exist prior to the patching.

So what are we waiting for now is a patch to fix the patch, and perhaps an explanation from Apple (I think they owe that much to their users.)

Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock told U.S.A Today: “The software update improves communication with 3G network.” So the software update was not intended to fix a chipset problem in the first place. That isn’t surprising considering Apple’s refusal to admit there is a problem with the 3G chipsets produced by German company Infineon Technologies.

As if the dropped calls and data connection problems weren’t enough, Apple now has to work on another software update, which they promised to deliver in September, this time to fix a bug that prevents the 2.0 firmware from loading non-default applications.

The strange thing however is that despite all these glitches, starting with MobileMe and continuing with all the iPhone problems, Apple continues to top customer-satisfaction lists over rival companies.