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Carriers Currently Testing iPhone 5 in Sealed Boxes?

Geckotek said:
This is how you end up w/ issues such as antennagate. :D
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No, that was the result of the blogosphere with a bunch of amateur bloggers trying to increase their hit counts by echoing the same small number of anecdotal reports into a tempest in a teacup.

I never had dropped calls on my iPhone 3GS when I was in Victoria but now in Vancouver, I get them all the time at my rental suite and on the skytrain when I *gasp* lose signal if I'm either walking around my house or in an underground part of the the skytrain route.

Every phone will drop calls in that situation but AT&T just happens to be far worse and the more overloaded a network is, the more dropped calls you will have. This is true of any metropolitan area with a lot of cell users.
 
HiVolt said:
LOL, sealed boxes, dummy enclosures... What next, retina scans, rfid chip implants?

Get over yourself Apple, it's a f'n phone, and you aren't NASA.
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There is far more money at stake with the iP5 than a manned launch. While Apple does not have as much risk of human life, Apple has a great deal of impact on the American and world economy.

People from many companies would literally kill to get an early view of the iP5. This would let them start copying before their competition.
 
If "the hardware is encased in a dummy body which means there's no clue to what the actual phone will do", doesn't that defeat the purpose of testing?
 
DJinTX said:
Apple likes metal.
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They certainly do!!!


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Rafterman said:
I thought that after the iPhone 4 lost-in-a-bar debacle, Apple barred iPhone test units from leaving their campus?
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Nope.

Apple realizes that there's a certain risk to testing unreleased hardware in the real world. Without doing so, there's a greater risk in releasing a product that doesn't function well in real situations, like taking photos or shooting videos in some dark nightclub.

They even had remote wipe procedures in case the device was lost.

Steve even quipped about the lost phone at the iPhone 4 announcement.

Without a doubt, there are cloaked iPhone 5 beta units being testing in the wild in the SF Bay Area this very moment.
 
chrmjenkins said:
Assuming access to buttons is not restricted, plastic and glass are transparent to EM fields, so any case wouldnt be an issue unless it contains metal.
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But the fact that Apple never really test the final design is what got us in trouble with design flaw in the last one regarding the Antenna.

As for testing I agree seal boxes you can get most of your testing and hardware testing real world done. Heck a lot of times they have a bunch of cars that have quite a few phones in that drive around making and receiving calls testing things out. It was a pretty cool article to read when I read it years ago.

But final design you need the device in the wild being tested by real people.
 
aristotle said:
No, that was the result of the blogosphere with a bunch of amateur bloggers trying to increase their hit counts by echoing the same small number of anecdotal reports into a tempest in a teacup.

I never had dropped calls on my iPhone 3GS when I was in Victoria but now in Vancouver, I get them all the time at my rental suite and on the skytrain when I *gasp* lose signal if I'm either walking around my house or in an underground part of the the skytrain route.

Every phone will drop calls in that situation but AT&T just happens to be far worse and the more overloaded a network is, the more dropped calls you will have. This is true of any metropolitan area with a lot of cell users.
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No, that was because the issue actually existed. Yes, people blew it up, but don't deny that it didn't exist.

I personally think if they did some testing w/o a protective case it may have changed things a bit.
 
no 4G/LTE; no care.

i've had 50Mb/s service since Dec 2009.

*iP5 thread sufficiently covered.
 
None of this would surprise me, given the secretive nature of Apple. They want to ensure that another iPhone 4 leak never happens again!
 
aristotle said:
No, that was the result of the blogosphere with a bunch of amateur bloggers trying to increase their hit counts by echoing the same small number of anecdotal reports into a tempest in a teacup.

I never had dropped calls on my iPhone 3GS when I was in Victoria but now in Vancouver, I get them all the time at my rental suite and on the skytrain when I *gasp* lose signal if I'm either walking around my house or in an underground part of the the skytrain route.

Every phone will drop calls in that situation but AT&T just happens to be far worse and the more overloaded a network is, the more dropped calls you will have. This is true of any metropolitan area with a lot of cell users.
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You're wrong, too many people have had personal experience with this issue to call it a myth. It's not correct that all phones have the same issue, every phone will lose signal when grasping it as if your trying to crush it but with the iP4 all you have to do is touch it in the wrong place.
As I said, I know people who have had actual, real problems because of this issue. A friend of mine who is one of the biggest Apple fan boys I know didn't experience this issue at all on his first iP4, but he had it exchanged (because of an unrelated issue) and the replacement unit suffered from this issue. Same situations, same locations.
 
iCrizzo said:
Can't somebody just leave one in a bar already. I hate rumors.
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Well then, rather than commingnto Mac Rumors, may I recommend.:

Apple Press Info.http://www.apple.com/pr


FrizzleFryBen said:
We've been thru this already...
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I'd like to blend that man who makes those videos.

FriarNurgle said:
If they were NASA, we would have colonized space by now.
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Too true. Apple should take over the space program, and then I could take my son on a trip to the moon for Christmas 2014. (They have just about got the money to do it, unlike the US Gov. and if Steve wanted to, he'd push and push till it happened.)
 
wackymacky said:
Well then, rather than commingnto Mac Rumors, may I recommend.:

Apple Press Info.http://www.apple.com/pr




I'd like to blend that man who makes those videos.



Too true. Apple should take over the space program, and then I could take my son on a trip to the moon for Christmas 2014. (They have just about got the money to do it, unlike the US Gov. and if Steve wanted to, he'd push and push till it happened.)
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Agree with everything you just said.
 
FriarNurgle said:
If they were NASA, we would have colonized space by now.
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Haha, seriously! Apple would probably have created their own super efficient rocket fuel to go along with their own rocket boosters (which they designed), helping create perfect harmony between soft components and hard components, and thus curb space flight costs in the order of billions of dollars. ;)

This rumor seems very believable though. I'm not sure how they'd test the AIP5 in a box, but I'm sure they have some ways. Besides, I think Apple definitely has the upper hand here... whether carriers like the iPhone or not, consumers want it!
 
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