iPhone 4 SNAFU
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- instrmntl0
From the other thread, but I think it should be in here, since this is the SNAFU thread, and not the i love my iphone thread.
- SPECTACULAR0
did that one guy that camped out for 1 week get his phone?
- CALLES0
this
- Frosty_spl0
If you can't hold it on the sides, WTF do you do?
iphone roach clip?
- lolinvisiblechamber
- Get a case
inhaler97 - its three specific points. mine has no problem with this.spifflink
- ndugu0
This is what happens when you have a small test group and they're all in faux 3Gs cases.
- i_monk0
Meanwhile, at the Droid factory...
- comicsans0
One single observation. If I hold it in my hand like a PDA then I get the lowered signal strength (5 -> 3 bars). BUT if I use it to make calls then I actually hold it differently and *for me* it seems to work just fine with full signal.
Apple's response will be interesting, at the very least this is a major PR fuckup. Somewhere deep in the bowels of Jobs' lair some hapless (about to be ex-) employee must be undergoing some rather creative exit interview techniques.
- georgesIII0
funny in the comments,
instead of bitching about this flaw, the usual apple user will abide and buy a bumper,
you can't tell me they didn't plan this, when they decided to create bumpers especially for this phone,
I smell a conspiracy of epic proportion- i dont think they have to buy them...lvl_13
- not free though
http://i.imgur.com/T…georgesIII - $30 damn dollars for those bumpers. Stupid.mg33
- I got 2 for $8 at Marshalls!marchelo
- instrmntl0
The iPhone 4G, Changing the game in dropped calls, again.
- souljar0
I have heard that this is more to do with the AT&T network in the USA. It was predicted because there network uses lower MHZ.
A friend sent me this, not sure where he got it from.
After the launch, the design was praised by Dermot O'Shea, director for Taoglas, an Irish provider of antenna solutions, who told website Wireless Week that there might be problems with AT&T's network - which is the only one on which the iPhone is available in the US: "In fairness, the cellular antenna – it looks like it goes all the way around the phone, so it looks like they're getting a lot space out of the antena," he told Wireless Week. "I think the reception challenge they would have is on the lower 850 MHz frequency that AT&T uses," he says, noting that the thinness of the antenna could still lead to dropped calls on that frequency.
- comicsans0
Got mine, and it does indeed exhibit the problem. I want to try it outdoors with a stronger signal before deciding whether to return or not. How Apple handle this one will be interesting, if they try and brazen it out it will severely tarnish their reputation. Apple haters are about to have a field day.
- svenreed0
- I loled,georgesIII
- fucking gold.airey
- spelling failmonospaced