Despite all of the buzz we’ve seen lately, including a hastily-assembled firmware update, it seems that that hardware in the iPhone 3G is pretty solid.

A Swedish company decided to find out, and took their iPhone to a test facility made for this kind of thing. They ran a variety of tests on the phone, as well as on a Sony Ericsson P1 and a Nokia N73. The testing confirms that they’re all about equal.

So what to make of it? It seems to me that we might be looking at some software issues, a fact that Apple essentially gave away when pushing out the 2.0.2 update. Hopefully their next update can continue to improve on it, since the hardware appears to be in good shape.