I owned an iPhone 4, used it for one year, without any problem.
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iPad Air screen defect?
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I owned an iPhone 4, used it for one year, without any problem.
Antenna gate was another web based invention ...
If that's the case I guess I'll have to conclude the quality of the Air display is extremely overrated and all reviews for it have been inaccurate or biased since they didn't mention the yellow tinting that's supposed to be there. Good to know.
Good for you. Well done on calling me a liar
You could have a crack down the middle of your iPad screen, and Max would tell you that you don't because his iPad screen isn't cracked.
I think it's quite sad that unless they have personally experienced the problem, it isn't true. I worked in mobile telecoms for 14 years, I know how the bars on the signal meter are calculated and I know that they simply tie into thresholds on the signal strength. I used to work in network performance where we had teams measuring the signal strengths on drive surveys. Therefore I knew that if you are near a mast, the signal meter wouldn't change as bridging the gap with the antenna would drop maybe 20dBm, but this would not cause a change in the reported signal strength. Apple even released a software update where they claimed to have fixed the problem, but anyone who understood the way the signal strength was displayed knew they'd just shifted the thresholds.
This Mac World article explained it all.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1152744/ios4_0_1_signal.html
Bottom line is Apple are not infallible, but they won't admit to problems. I'm sure they made a judgement call to go with a known percentage of screens that have a colour tint as to do otherwise would have cost too much and reduced the numbers available to sell. They'll gamble most people won't notice. In my case, even my parents noticed the screen was not uniform (unlike my Mum's mini retina which is perfect).
What's the source and how reliable is the week 49 rMini thing? Not doubting or saying it's not true - just seeking more info.
Would love for it to be true since rMini was what I originally wanted but gave up on after three with screen yellow at the bottom and blue at the top.
EDIT: Nevermind. From Fuelflow's post, sounds like still hit-or-miss (or maybe miss-or-miss is more accurate).
I purchased a 64GB WiFi iPad Air, five days ago. DMPLT, week 49.
Good overall screen, almost no bookspine, but small chip in glass, glue residue on the back case, and very noticable back light bleed. It was returned today. I'm VERY disappointed in Quality Control from Apple.
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Really sorry to hear that. What a great device this would be if the qc was up to snuff. A friend of mine had glue residue on his black Air, it really was noticeable since the residue was white.
so much for the "week 49 theory"..
My friend picked up a production week 50 (DMPLV) and the yellow tint is still there. It's very noticeable too, I might add.
Like many others who care about a quality product, I'm going to sit this one out. I don't care if I have to wait a year until the next version of the iPad Air comes out. If I'm going to pay $800-900, I want a screen without a yellow tint, or book spine shadow, or back light bleed. Not to mention all of the other things like glue residue or small chips in the glass or funny streaks down the back panel.
I was curious to know my build week number. I had made an error in entering my serial previously. lol
I have production week 50 (December). Factory DM (Foxconn) No problems seen thus far.
I have production week 50 (December). Factory DM (Foxconn) No problems seen thus far.
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Hmm well my screen seems to be perfect. I thought I noticed a dark line on the side but after looking with more scrutiny and photographing the screen there is nothing there out of place, I don't even see any dust or lint under the screen. My iPad came with 7.0.3 too so it's not like a really new one or anything.
Has anyone got the yellowing of the screen in the iPad Air they bought recently or was it just launch stock?
I'm getting mine from a reseller (JB hifi in Melbourne) cause I have some gift vouchers so i don't know if they exchange on the spot or i have to go to the apple store to exchange? Does anyone know?
I'm getting mine from a reseller (JB hifi in Melbourne) cause I have some gift vouchers so i don't know if they exchange on the spot or i have to go to the apple store to exchange? Does anyone know?
I'm with you mate....I fart in the general direction of these 'IT experts', their pronouncements and twisting in the wind. Only time I talk to them is when I need a printer driver installed or internet is down.
They generally have a lot of hardware knowledge but not much taste...and I am not sure they have better vision than normal consumers.
I know what I saw on my screen since I am the one using it. Who gives a rats arse what some IT goon thinks?
No certainly not. Idiotic posts from people not concerned with the issue are near to trolling. Kindergarten .
There is a lot of frustration on our side so no need to add some with crappy comments from people not concerned and pretending we have mental disease.
It's always useful when we read users who post they got a flawless pad, since it gives us hope to get one good as well.
But brainless posts of people trying to convince us were seeing things aren't welcome . Makes their authors look like ****s.
In many cases there are no issues at all, just perfectly working units, someone is keep returning.
The only question to answer is: a 5% variation across the screen is within limits ? And I said 5% referring to the only user here who provided a documented picture of the "issue". It could be less in many other cases ...
Btw keep your "idiotic ... Brainless ... ****s" comments for you.
It's unfortunate that there can't be a discussion here without name calling. The screen issues do exist and a perfectly working unit can be unsatisfactory to some including me if it has tints, gradients, lines, etc. I returned 3 Airs because of yellow screens that would probably be acceptable to many. The 4th has a bright, white screen with just an almost imperceptible darker area on the far left and I'm very happy with it. When you have had previous iPads with beautiful screens, it is hard to settle for one that has color variations, even if it works perfectly. I think everyone buying an iPad should get one that is acceptable to them and unfortunately that has meant many returns for some with the iPad Air or rMini this year. There are good ones. I see plenty of them in the Apple stores and that is what people here keep trying for.
This picture is from the Apple support/discussion website posted by another user of their rMini I think which is a pretty accurate representation of what the iPad Airs I returned looked like. To me this was unacceptable - and I would guess more than 5% variation but I will be the first to admit that maybe I am sensitive to things like this.....
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