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Jobs says Signal Strength a "non issue"
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I was pretty concerned about this after reading about it yesterday being a lefty and all. I decided to see how I actually hold my 3gs, it will be a non-issue for me, I hold only the sides normally. I would have to agree it's a bit of a blunder though, makes you think the bumpers were developed to send out for free when people started complaining.
I just had a ideal to look at the ifixit photo of the iphone 4 teardown, and its probably a shot in the dark... but it just came to me that would the out case flex inward on the black points?
If this was true the picture below shows the GSM attenna extremly close to the LCD back and could therefor bridge it to the 3g attenna one or the internals via the lcd backplate!
Is mr jobbs covering this up?
If this was true the picture below shows the GSM attenna extremly close to the LCD back and could therefor bridge it to the 3g attenna one or the internals via the lcd backplate!
Is mr jobbs covering this up?
seems as though this may be a OS4 software issue, everyone who has a 3gs or 3g and is running os4 take it out of a case and try it for your selves.. im amazed
I wonder why some phones don't seem to have this problem at all tho.
in any event, they should give free bumpers to people to avoid the problem.
in any event, they should give free bumpers to people to avoid the problem.
Probably the moscone center had perfect AT&T signal with a base station right on top of the building.
That's irrelevant - what's of relavance is that the CEO himself is holding the iphone exactly the way he claims it sholudn't be held.. and I bet that's the way most people hold their iphones.
What's funny is this actually helps explain why so many of my prior other phones had dropped calls or occasionally weak reception. Perhaps I was just holding those phones incorrectly. I thought it was AT&T.
I'm glad my style of holding a phone happens to mesh well with iPhone 4's antenna placement.
w00t!
I'm glad my style of holding a phone happens to mesh well with iPhone 4's antenna placement.
w00t!
Also made engadget.
I love Apple, but sometimes they do and say the dumbest things. My company's PR department would be in RED ALERT if they saw our CEO saying something like what he said in this email.
If he said that he deserves a slap in the face!!!!!
I want to pop him in the head with a bumper hahahaaha
I can see this blowing up in his face, big time. He's basically admitting that the design flaw exists, while forcing the user to make up for it.
May not stop me from getting the iphone -- I'm long, long overdue for an upgrade from my 2005 candybar phone -- but I'll certainly be wary in the future.
May not stop me from getting the iphone -- I'm long, long overdue for an upgrade from my 2005 candybar phone -- but I'll certainly be wary in the future.
http://www.gearlog.com/2010/06/apple_responds_to_iphone_4_dea.php
"official statement" identical.
arn
"official statement" identical.
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The funny thing about this response is that it sounds a whole lot like the joke posts people made about what Steve would say. Yet it's serious. WTF??
Ok I realize I can live with this shortcoming and love the new phone otherwise, but I'm not happy about it.
Obviously a software fix is not coming. Might be some optimizations but the root of the problem is hardware and we are stuck with it.
Crap.
Ok I realize I can live with this shortcoming and love the new phone otherwise, but I'm not happy about it.
Obviously a software fix is not coming. Might be some optimizations but the root of the problem is hardware and we are stuck with it.
Crap.
This
What are you trying to represent by posting that?
Anyway, I’ve known samcraig from the day he joined MacRumors. He loathes BS and whiners, and I would seriously doubt he’d post some crap to get people’s attention like some of the kids on here, besides the fact of not being a kid in the first place.
That being said, I would never bother emailing sjobs (funny, my spell checker changed that to snobs). It would seem like you’d just get some lackey’s response, unless someone knows for a fact he actually reads that email.
Also the position where the person was holding it doesn't seem to be the "natural" way of holding the iPhone. Shifting your hand up an <inch would resolve the issue.
If anyone is like me, I usually don't hold my phone in the exact same spot every time I use it.
If anyone is like me, I usually don't hold my phone in the exact same spot every time I use it.
actually, i that shot he is holding the iphone 4 in a way that would be fine (in his right hand and lower left corner wide open).