I just want to say that I got my new iPhone yesterday and love it. I usually hovered around 3 bars everywhere I went and now it's been a solid 4 to 5 in those same places.
I have tried like he'll to recreate the signal issues that have been reported but I can't. I held the phone as shown for 20 mintutes and it never dropped below 4 bars. I have no cases or anything on my phone. Does this just happen where AT&T signal is weak?
Apple is being "penny wise and pound foolish" by not just providing disgruntled owners of the iPhone 4 with a free bumper. ... Yes, the company will lose the potential revenue of selling bumpers to some, but they're putting their entire product line at-risk by failing to be proactive as a responsible tech giant should.
Apple spends hundreds of millions of dollars getting people into their stores. This seems like a perfect opportunity to do just that for pennies-per-unit.
Again I have had all of the different generations of iPhone if you wrap your hand all the way around any of them the bars would drop!! That's the way this stuff works when you touch a antenna when it's trying to send or receive your impeding it's ability, you guys never had a TV with rabbit ear antenna's did you. Bunch of whinners
Mouse hovering over the 'cancel items' link.
My 3GS works just fine. I refuse to be such a puppet as to ignore this lame omission of R&D.
I'm keeping my iPhone 4, I refuse to be such a puppet as to draw completely unfounded conclusions based on lame FUD spread on message boards.
Omission of R&D? Please. I guess the overall improved reception that has been independently verified happened by accident.
If you listen to what is spread on these boards you would think the iPhone was completely incapable of making a call and was just magically produced out of thin air with no testing or engineering. Asinine at best.
I live in Eugene, Oregon and anyone out there that doesn't feel this is an issue -- I'd be more than happy to have you over to my house and you can see it for yourself.. I even have a 3G we can use for comparison.
I don't have to listen to what is spread on these boards, and I think it is ignorant to assume people are blowing this out of proportion because you aren't having any issues, and because there are studies out there that show the reception is better... There are plenty of studies that show it is not better in areas too.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that the reception is far from good at my house and I have NEVER had this many dropped or bad calling experiences (choppy) on all of my other iphones combined (3 years total).
Yeah, the hiring managers probably got their headcount months ago, probably at the halfway point of their fiscal year. They wrote the job descriptions, got them approved by HR, then finally appeared a few days/weeks ago. I suspect that half the openings already have final candidates and/or have been filled already and that the public listings are a mere formality.Having worked in recruitment and HR, I doubt very much that they advertised the jobs in response to the issues. This was probably in the pipeline days/weeks or even months in advance.
Proper job descriptions have to be properly explained to relevant HR teams, signed off by managers etc....... sounds simple, but usually time.
Yesterday everyone was bitching because nothing was being done. Now it appears that something is moving forward and people are still bitching. The fanboys may be the thing that brings down Apple.
I liked it better when they just made computers. You iPhonies are a fickle bunch.![]()
If it doesn't work, try this.Has anyone out there experiencing this issue seen the issue resolved (or made better) with the use of an invisible shield or bodyguardz protector?
I just got my bodyguardz in the mail today, and I'll be applying it this evening - Just wondering if I should have any hope...
Cheers!
i agree, iphone 5 will be perfect, naked without a damn bumper
hardware/design flaws cannot be remedied by software fixes
ps- So glad iphone 4 is not available in south africa yet................
I am surprised they need PhD level staff. Someone with a High School Degree could figure how to resolve the antenna. Common sense should be the only qualification.
Steve Jobs better watch his a** or he'll end up kicked out of Apple.!
The antenna issue, however, is ridiculous. I'm not buying.
They did fix the Hubble's HUGE hardware/design flaw with software.
now i'm sooo skeptical about product quality and fixes. They probably did penalize their Antenna Engineering Team. Someone got the axe i'm sure...
I'm talking about dropped calls, constant choppy reception, and super slow web browsing... holding the phone as I always have in the exact same environment I happily used my 3G for over a year without issue.
I'm keeping my iPhone 4, I refuse to be such a puppet as to draw completely unfounded conclusions based on lame FUD spread on message boards.
Omission of R&D? Please. I guess the overall improved reception that has been independently verified happened by accident.
If you listen to what is spread on these boards you would think the iPhone was completely incapable of making a call and was just magically produced out of thin air with no testing or engineering. Asinine at best.
Edit: I am not in any way saying there isn't an issue with bridging the antennae, however the "completely incapable of making a call" is total BS. I might add, for those of you that are arguing that the antenna on the outside will obviously cause a problem, that this only happens when the antenna is BRIDGED with the other antenna, not just by the mere fact of touching it. If there's a design problem here its that the two antennas can be bridged, not that you can touch them.
Heh, I don't think "omission" of R&D was the problem. It looks more like R&D overload to me. They drifted deep into some weird alternate universe where a phone that you can't hold like all other phones is acceptable. That's a sign of having worked for too long on something and losing touch with reality.Mouse hovering over the 'cancel items' link.
My 3GS works just fine. I refuse to be such a puppet as to ignore this lame omission of R&D.