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White iPhone 4 Canceled?
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No need for ad hominem there, it was just a suggestion...who pissed in your Corn Flakes this morning?
There are a lot of white bashers here!
I own and love a white iPhone 3G. I want to own and love a white iPhone 4.
White power!
I own and love a white iPhone 3G. I want to own and love a white iPhone 4.
White power!
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Hey noob! Proximity sensor bug was purely software. Fixed with 4.1.
kernkraft said:This is one of the best stories this week!
It epitomises whatever this new gadget mania is about - waiting, anticipation, putting some bloody piece of tech in a place above so many other things...
...and then being let down.Anyway, it's a faulty phone. You know that, Jobs knows that, everybody knows that. If you buy one, people will annoy the crap out of you by asking about how you're holding it, while you'll have so many calls dropped due to that crap proximity sensor. But don't drop your phone yet, it will shatter to pieces. That gorilla glass is seriously endangered!
Hey noob! Proximity sensor bug was purely software. Fixed with 4.1.
It is because the object being painted is a piece of TRANSPARENT glass, and you paint the inner surface so it shows under the glass' glare when seen from outside. So basically, the first layer you paint is the one that the user sees directly. It should be one or two layers of white (to show) first, and THEN further layers of black (to add opacity towards the inside)...
Does it make any sense?
I like mine.
No issues with discoloration. It doesn't physically feel any different than a black one.
When you have the flash on, it lights up the back panel due to light leakage, but it doesn't affect the pictures at all.
Yuck. Have you ever seen a thin coat of white paint over opaque black. Looks like a very sad dull gray. There isn't room inside the phone for a really thick coat of paint.
And the sideways bouncing glare from the white surface and reflected within the glass layer would still ruin all your camera's photos. Maybe the oleophobic coating isn't anti-reflective enough to help. The fix might be to put a black metal ring around the opening for both cameras and the flash, similar to the shiny metal ring currently around the back camera. Probably can't be done with their current tooling setup for cutting the glass.
Really getting bored of this Verizon nonsense so excruciatingly tenuous is the link being made to the white iPhone 4.
Note to the culprits - Apple is a global company and MR is a global site. Most of us mere mortals in the RoW actually have a choice of numerous networks with which to use our iPhones. Outside of the US, no one gives a crap about CDMA.
What next, an orange "Orange" iPhone for the French and Brits?
Note to the culprits - Apple is a global company and MR is a global site. Most of us mere mortals in the RoW actually have a choice of numerous networks with which to use our iPhones. Outside of the US, no one gives a crap about CDMA.
What next, an orange "Orange" iPhone for the French and Brits?
Cue the "we dont need a white iphone anyway" "White iphone is unnecessary" "When we get it, it will be the best white phone ever."
When we get it, it will be the best white phone ever!!
It was something that was made in china I'd assume. It looks/feels just like the OEM parts..but doesn't have the same branded stamping internally.
While I don't disagree in principle, it's also true that Apple products having a white variant is part of what gave them their signature look in a sea of black generic products a la the dells, hps, etc.
I dislike the fact that my own magsafe cable is white, but at an airport or somewhere else in public, seeing someone with a white Apple product or even a power cord gives me a positive vibe. (There isn't really a good 'rational' reason why though... maybe it's just the fact that my first computer was an Apple IIc, the first white Apple product?)
Really getting bored of this Verizon nonsense so excruciatingly tenuous is the link being made to the white iPhone 4.
Note to the culprits - Apple is a global company and MR is a global site. Most of us mere mortals in the RoW actually have a choice of numerous networks with which to use our iPhones. Outside of the US, no one gives a crap about CDMA.
What next, an orange "Orange" iPhone for the French and Brits?
simple humor. LOL someone's pretty uptight about it. just saying
My mistake. The antenna issue was apparently fixed with the bumper too. I was also told that if you put some chunky third-party cases on, they reduce the chance of scratching and breaking the glass.
So there are no issues with it now, but only if you have a big lump of third-party plastic outside that nice object. I wonder what the point of design like this is.
No surprise really. If it didn't come out by now - the odds were pretty great it wouldn't at all.
I wrote this in the other thread as well...
True or not - that it was "discovered" so late in the production cycle is ridiculous. Defend the scenarios all you want - and some of you will. But those that will - explain to me how if you have prototypes in your hand, you don't take a few pictures and realize this issue before going into full production.
Maybe they'll be a press release where Apple will show off their multi-million dollar photography testing studio to show how this wasn't a problem on their campus prior to production.
As someone who has been in printing for several years - the color matching issue was far easier to understand and identify with. But this? If accurate? wow...
I wrote this in the other thread as well...
True or not - that it was "discovered" so late in the production cycle is ridiculous. Defend the scenarios all you want - and some of you will. But those that will - explain to me how if you have prototypes in your hand, you don't take a few pictures and realize this issue before going into full production.
Maybe they'll be a press release where Apple will show off their multi-million dollar photography testing studio to show how this wasn't a problem on their campus prior to production.
As someone who has been in printing for several years - the color matching issue was far easier to understand and identify with. But this? If accurate? wow...
Verizon probably paid Apple a hefty sum to keep white exclusive to them.
This actually would make sense...
Two quotes that made my day just that much better.
If you mean an SSD drive or SSD Chip, the SSD Drive is the large platter drive like in the first MacBook Air. The SSD Chip is just flash memory. They are not the same, if that's what you meant. If you meant 2 different things, I hope you're kidding with a platter drive in an iPhone.
The iPod Classic is still not SSD, and that would be the first thing to transition, if anything.I saw one in an elevator once. Steve Jobs was carrying it. He was also with a bear. Odd, indeed.
Then you need to start washing your hands. My iBook has no discoloration whatsoever, and same goes for my iPod / Pro Mouse / Pro Keyboard / Mighty Mouse / Aluminum Keyboard and everything else I touch... Not to mention, the rollerball on my Mighty Mouse is going on 2 years old, still flawless...
Thank you.
Justifications for what? How is Apple "wrong" with this? It's a fricken color of a device they didn't get around to making, for whatever reason. Don't see how they're "wrong" about it.
Placed above what though? This is a tech-news site and it talks about tech news...as do the people that come here and read stories like this such as yourself. The innovations happening in tech are in mobile at the moment so naturally "some bloody piece of tech" will be talked about on tech news sites. If you're sick of it or don't like the direction things are going, there's always sites about needle-point or mountain biking you could read instead.
But I can understand. It's frustrating for people that joined this site when it was Macintosh specific, only to see their world taken over by these damn phones.
...and then being let down.
But anyway, I'll respond. I held off getting a phone. I didn't have one for a long time but with my job now i needed a smart phone and was considering a Droid X or possibly one of the new Samsung Android phones...but I went with an iPhone 4 instead and have had zero problems with it. No bumper case, but no dropped calls, no reception problems, no proximity problems. I hold it any way I want. I was ready to take it back if any of these things reared it's head because the "phone" part of the smart-phone had to work. Granted, I'm not in one of the trouble areas for AT&T like San Francisco, so the coverage here is fine. I hemmed and hawed about the iPhone over an Android phone...but I just couldn't find an Android I liked. One phone had a feature I liked, but didn't have something else I wanted etc etc. The iPhone 4 didn't have everything, but it had the majority of things I was looking for.
Also, if the thing is dropped, it doesn't shatter. It's like safety glass. It cracks, but it's not like glass shards explode out of the thing. But I'm sure you knew this.