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This story is another Apple attempt at a smokescreen.
I have never seen another phone that drops as much signal as the iP4 when the phones are held in natural positions. In the case of the iP4, it's the same position that it was held by Jobs in his WWDC speech, and the same position that its held in during almost all of Apple's commercials. CR quantified and confirmed that behavior.
Just because Apple found 3 phones that they could use to trump up directionally similar issues (although still to a lesser degree), can't change it. Just because they spent $100,000,000 on an RF test lab doen't change it.
Particularly when he cherry picks crappy phones for the comparison. A second tier, year-old Android phone, an obsolete WinMo phone, and a year old Blackberry design. It would have been interesting if they offered to test phones from the audience at random. Since I've returned my iP4, I've tested a number of current Android phones in normal use outside of stores. None were anywhere nearly as bad as the 4 in terms of signal loss, and some, in particular the Motorola Droid and Droid X are, as far as I can see, just about immune to signal loss from handling. So it doesn't happen to all phones, and is way less of an issue with current generation competing phones to the iP4.
As for the return statistics, others have made a great point that Jobs was being his usual disengenuous self in comparing that spec from only 22 days into the iP4 vs. a year into the 3GS (no steller performer in its own right). Then again, not surprising from a company that lied to its phone owners about signal strength for years until they got caught in the lie and decided that they had to come clean in iOS4.01.
This is beyond the elastic ethics that have become such a cancer in business today. And beyond arrogance.
This story is another Apple attempt at a smokescreen.
I have never seen another phone that drops as much signal as the iP4 when the phones are held in natural positions. In the case of the iP4, it's the same position that it was held by Jobs in his WWDC speech, and the same position that its held in during almost all of Apple's commercials. CR quantified and confirmed that behavior.
Just because Apple found 3 phones that they could use to trump up directionally similar issues (although still to a lesser degree), can't change it. Just because they spent $100,000,000 on an RF test lab doen't change it.
Particularly when he cherry picks crappy phones for the comparison. A second tier, year-old Android phone, an obsolete WinMo phone, and a year old Blackberry design. It would have been interesting if they offered to test phones from the audience at random. Since I've returned my iP4, I've tested a number of current Android phones in normal use outside of stores. None were anywhere nearly as bad as the 4 in terms of signal loss, and some, in particular the Motorola Droid and Droid X are, as far as I can see, just about immune to signal loss from handling. So it doesn't happen to all phones, and is way less of an issue with current generation competing phones to the iP4.
As for the return statistics, others have made a great point that Jobs was being his usual disengenuous self in comparing that spec from only 22 days into the iP4 vs. a year into the 3GS (no steller performer in its own right). Then again, not surprising from a company that lied to its phone owners about signal strength for years until they got caught in the lie and decided that they had to come clean in iOS4.01.
This is beyond the elastic ethics that have become such a cancer in business today. And beyond arrogance.
