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Jobs says Signal Strength a "non issue"

Well I have no problems when I hold the phone the way I normally do. Right or left hand. It only drops the signal when I grasp it tightly.

Although I wonder if the real reason behind the new retina display is to hook you in so you can't bare to look at another ugly phone screen again, regardless if whether u have a signal or not. :p
 
BobHail said:
"Brilliant engineering".

Apple is now officially the laughing stock of the mobile phone industry.

I don´t know, if I want to go buy the iPhone 4 anymore, just too embarrassing. :(
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Just wait, like myself, to see if it can be genuinely "addressed"...

Otherwise, yes, it could be embarrassing.
 
maverick808 said:
Apple's attitude is utterly disgraceful. I couldn't believe Jobs' email when I first read it, and I still find it hard to believe what is going on in these forums... people defending Apple over a phone that doesn't work when you hold it like a phone. Indeed, doesn't work when you hold and use it in the way that the folk in Apple's own adverts hold it.

Apple should be apologising, and refunding people or assuring them that a fix is being researched. There must be some kind of clear lacquer or similar material that they could just coat the antennas in to shield them.
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The argument is more over the wining, not Apple. As someone posted no one is defending Steve Jobs. But what he said is not liable, and it's hearsay.
 
BobHail said:
"Brilliant engineering".

Apple is now officially the laughing stock of the mobile phone industry.

I don´t know, if I want to go buy the iPhone 4 anymore, just too embarrassing. :(
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Actually Palm is.

They built an awesome phone that no one would buy.
 
Figbash Acrobat said:
Wow. Optimist much?

I guess you're thinking your email will stand out by "cathching...with honey". Unfortunately, we've no idea how Steve chooses which emails to read, let alone respond to. If he even read a handful of the millions of emails he's likely receiving now, he'd have no time to do whatever else CEO's do.

I'm guessing he must have people filter his mail and be like, "Mr. Jobs, this one's interesting" etc. Either way, I wonder how his inbox survives this sort of thing, especially now that word has been out for some time that said address is legit.

But you're probably doing yourself a better service than anything, just by not letting this stuff really get you down. If this thread is any evidence, there's a lot of doubt, confusion, and resentment flowing through veins of the collective apple consumer base.

I doubt your email will make a bit of difference, but I do tip my hat to you nonetheless, sir. Keep fightin' the good fight.
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We don't know if he actually responds or there's a team that "thinks" like him. We've discussed this at work, very strange things going on with Steve Jobs, answering email publicly is one of them.
 
Well it´s now 100% confirmed that they knew about this issue and trying to sweep it under the rug before the release seems very suspicious!

I guess the case industry will make good profits out of this fiasco (including Apple´s bumpers).

And I guess next year we are going to see a whole new design for iPhone 5!

Like someone said:

iPhone 2G = 1.0 beta

Then new design:
3G = 1.1

3GS = 1.2

iPhone 4 = 2.0 beta

New design to correct the antenna mistake:
iPhone 5/4G = 2.1
 
Just sent my first iPhone 4 text. I'm right-handed, so I hold the phone in my left hand to type the text with my right. But this makes me lose reception. So now whenever I text I have to type the text and then swap hands and wait for reception to come back before I press Send. Fantastic.
 
A non-issue?

Last time I checked only AT&T was to blame for poor call quality, now Apple is doing it for them and many other carriers. At least we now know that it wasn't a Wi-Fi issue at the WWDC, more of design issue that caused some of those problems.

To save face Apple better give a free bumper with every iPhone 4.
 
NightFox said:
Just sent my first iPhone 4 text. I'm right-handed, so I hold the phone in my left hand to type the text with my right. But this makes me lose reception. So now whenever I text I have to type the text and then swap hands and wait for reception to come back before I press Send. Fantastic.
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See? I knew it wasn't just when using it as a "phone".
 
danilko1 said:
The argument is more over the wining, not Apple. As someone posted no one is defending Steve Jobs. But what he said is not liable, and it's hearsay.
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Sorry, but it demonstrates prior knowledge of aforementioned design flaw. Which is exactly why the legal dept freaked and had him send the infamous "follow up".

A good legal team will have no trouble tying this to the "Bumper". Being a South Paw I look forward to the Class Action.:apple:
 
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