LOL I know what you mean. The iPhone 4 does everything else so well that this antennae thing is acceptable on the whole. I've been taking a look at my 3G and I usually don't hold it by that corner, so whatever. Waiting for the white one to come out anyway - perhaps they will have a firmware/software update by then?
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AppleCare Training Document on iPhone 4 Signal Issues Revealed
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LOL I know what you mean. The iPhone 4 does everything else so well that this antennae thing is acceptable on the whole. I've been taking a look at my 3G and I usually don't hold it by that corner, so whatever. Waiting for the white one to come out anyway - perhaps they will have a firmware/software update by then?
No, consider the freezing iMacs in 2007 and again in 2009, it was a software fix yet some units had the issue and others didn't, exactly like the iPhone 4. Difficult to believe but true.
88024xxxxxx = Week 24??? Again.....I live in an area with terrible AT&T signal for the most part. We do have 3G, but there are points where, on my commute home, I would lose signal and drop calls reliably........My iPhone 4 has yet to drop calls in these areas where my 3G would ALWAYS drop calls.
Give it up man. Even Apple already admitted the problem (indirectly by creating this leaked document). Do you own too much APPL or something?
I moved my fingers slightly away from the antenna and I don't have an issue anymore.
Free fix, you heard it here first.
Free fix, you heard it here first.
Now here is a completely fair assessment. Like Microsoft, Apple has decided to copy others innovation and come out with an inferior product with which they are flooding the market and putting the little guys, like Htc, and nokia, out of business. On second thought, not much like Microsoft of yore in the least. More like the IBM of yore. Adobe... now there's a company flooding markets with inferior product!
Rock solid call quality
Signal shmignal. I see the number of bars decrease if I use the "death grip" but that's not how I hold the phone when I call anyway. And I do hold the phone with my left hand.
For me, the bottom line is call quality, not bar count. Sitting in exactly the same spot, I get far better sound quality and connection reliability with the iPhone 4 than I ever did with my ancient 2008 iPhone 3G. It's like a land line.
Signal shmignal. I see the number of bars decrease if I use the "death grip" but that's not how I hold the phone when I call anyway. And I do hold the phone with my left hand.
For me, the bottom line is call quality, not bar count. Sitting in exactly the same spot, I get far better sound quality and connection reliability with the iPhone 4 than I ever did with my ancient 2008 iPhone 3G. It's like a land line.
I just left Verizon and bought my iPhone 4 this morning, and I have already had two failed calls.
Ha that would be a typical hour for me and my ole 3G.
EXACTLY!
All these idiots who are keeping their phone are really the most gullible people in the world. Return it and wait for this inevitable fix. They are probably doing this as we speak. The next batch will be silently 'upgraded'.
Early adopters, thank you for sacrificing your money so I can get a better product. Heh.
When I do the hand thingy and run a speed test I go from 2619 kbps to 153..... So I'll say reception is affected.
Actually my home was nearly always a dead-zone for my 3G and most inbound calls went to VM. Now these calls seem to be getting through, while my wife's 3G is still having problems. That makes me fairly sure that the sensitivity of the i4 is greater than the 3G and it simply works better than the 3G in my part of the world.
Maybe simply because the problem doesn't show at 2400Mhz (Wifi/Bluetooth) and 1575/1227Mhz (GPS). The signal attenuation with your finger on using Wifi/Bluetooth/GPS may not be too big while in the cellular bands 850Mhz/1900Mhz it does become a problem.
If for example the problem is only in the 850Mhz/900Mhz band Apple may come out with a switch to disable those bands in software, but this is hardly a solution.
Exactly. I'm a little tired of these dramatic folks taking things out of context, if there was any context to begin with, just to sensationalize a situation that never actually happened.
