So a phone that drops calls when you touch it is a success?
Selling that many of anything would be the success ESPECIALLY if it doesn't work...
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Apple Announces iPhone 4 Sales of 1.7 Million, Most Successful Product Launch Ever
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Selling that many of anything would be the success ESPECIALLY if it doesn't work...
That's good stuff. Mine will be here today. I played with my girls yesterday befre I put her invisible shield on. It's nice, worth the wait. It's not that Apple "Does No Wrong" but even with some flaws it's still a better device than most overall and continues to lead the pack. Still room for improvement but still ahead of competition
I love when people claim there is a "normal" way to hold a cellphone. And you don't need to cup the iphone to get it to drop calls. Just a finger grazing the seam does it.
Are you downloading something else at the same time that you're running the speed test?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)
Ok thanks. It was on 3G. On wifi the upload speed is much slower.
zerostar said:
Ok thanks. It was on 3G. On wifi the upload speed is much slower.
1.7 million units sold, but unfortunately no one gets a signal because they don't know how to hold a phone.
Normal for me. Grazing my finger DOES NOT drop my call at all. Takes about 20 sec or so.
Is this the BIG announcement concerning the iPhone 4 we that was rumored for today... NOT an announcement/update about recpetion issues, but an ego boost that completely overlooks the launch problems....
Don't mention the reception!
Polly, are these iPhone 4 owners too? Listen, don't mention the reception I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk
Polly, are these iPhone 4 owners too? Listen, don't mention the reception I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk
I went on Sunday to reserve my iPhone. The complaints about how to hold the phone don't apply to me. Hopefully sometime this month they will be available for purchase.
This is what I was wondering too.. The headline should read "Apple Announces iPod sales of 1.7 Million".
Dude you are on crack! I was WWDC, Apple has over 100 million iPhones out there Worldwide! Don't hate!
Marcus
Oh look!
The Star Wars nerd who's been here a month is calling others "troll."
Bye bye nerd!
While I absolutely love my new iPhone, the man's got a point here. If this was the launch of a much hyped Android phone and it was revealed to be having issues with the screen or dropped calls, the people on this board would be laughing until they wet themselves.
Jesus people, we already have 10 zillion topics about the reception issue! You're still well within your return window, take the thing back and go get an Android OS phone. I'm sure you'll be so much happier with that choice.
Congrats to Apple on its most successful product launch ever!! It's stories like that make me remember Steve "Monkey Boy" Ballmer's comment in 2007... "The iPhone will never gain significant market share."
Mark
I couldn't agree any more! And that said, my iphone4 is all good. No problems.
I wonder how many would have been sold if there would have been an ample supply of handsets. I ordered through Apple and got mine a day early. There are 5 other members of my extended family that did pre-orders through Best Buy after they couldn't order online, and they are still waiting for enough supply to arrive to get their iPhone4's.
I have talked to a number of people who really want the new phone but are waiting till they can just walk in and get one. I predict large sales number to continue for quite a while. I love my new iP4. The only problems I have had are with Apps that haven't updated for iOS4.
I have talked to a number of people who really want the new phone but are waiting till they can just walk in and get one. I predict large sales number to continue for quite a while. I love my new iP4. The only problems I have had are with Apps that haven't updated for iOS4.
Wasn't there a droid with a screen issue? If you are not grounded the screen doesn't work? And if its a software issue and the fixed it who really cares. I made several calls on mine and have yet to drop a call and I can make my signal go down by holding it.
Do you expect everything to be perfect? Things have bugs. What if VW recalled your car because of a defective part? Are you going to give VW the same level of criticism and say your car was not a success because VW released a defective product?
No company is perfect. This issue is only a high profile one because of the non-issue Jobs email. But, every company releases a product that has early bugs. VW, Apple, Toyota, etc all have bugs upon release of that model.
You can bet I was mad when Jobs said it was a non-issue. Because it is one thing to release a product with bugs and make it right with the customer. It is another to say it is our fault for holding it that way and is a non-issue. But, as of now I am going to wait and see what happens now with Jobs changing his tone and reports of a software fix coming this week if not today.
