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White iPhone 4 Delays Due to Light Leakage?
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Many AAPL shareholders are happy to hear news about iDevices.
If you want to know why, please refer to Apple's SEC filings. It involves tripping over large sacks of money strewn all over the place.
you again? every post you make is in regards to AAPL shares and shareholders. LOL.....
Hi WhySoSerious!you again? every post you make is in regards to AAPL shares and shareholders. LOL.....
I'm glad you find me so memorable.
Have a nice day! Mine is great.
uhm...... and really anntenuate the reception?
metal on metal?
maybe slick "white" kevlar? opaque inner coating?
my 200cents
francois
Not sure what you mean by metal on metal... The back and sides are one solid piece on the iPad, they COULD use that as an antenna, or better yet, have kept the antennas on the inside, like most phones.
Either way... Don't think it could be worse, lol.
Hummmmm.....
I'm not sure that I completely understand the issue. This completely depends on the method which the glass supplier are using to colour the glass. If they are using nanoparticles mixed into the glass matrix (i.e adding TiO2 into the batch pre-melt) then there would equally be as much light bleed into the rear side as there would be around the edges. If they are using a coating, (which from all accounts they are not) it would depend if they are using a CVD method or some form of in-line coating. In the case of an in-line they would have some low level light bleed due to the light refracting off the coated surface and coming out of the ends. If it is CVD chances are that they is coating on 5 of the 6 sides - hence no light bleed.
The problem is not easy to solve - since if they are using inclusions (which is my bet), they would need to increase the amount of TiO2 in the glass matrix which would then alter the other properties (strength, crack resilience, etc) making it more brittle.
The problem does not exist with black as it is an absorber, thus the amount of light propegating through the glass would need to be substantially higher in order to cause a problem.
Anyway - my thoughts.
I'm not sure that I completely understand the issue. This completely depends on the method which the glass supplier are using to colour the glass. If they are using nanoparticles mixed into the glass matrix (i.e adding TiO2 into the batch pre-melt) then there would equally be as much light bleed into the rear side as there would be around the edges. If they are using a coating, (which from all accounts they are not) it would depend if they are using a CVD method or some form of in-line coating. In the case of an in-line they would have some low level light bleed due to the light refracting off the coated surface and coming out of the ends. If it is CVD chances are that they is coating on 5 of the 6 sides - hence no light bleed.
The problem is not easy to solve - since if they are using inclusions (which is my bet), they would need to increase the amount of TiO2 in the glass matrix which would then alter the other properties (strength, crack resilience, etc) making it more brittle.
The problem does not exist with black as it is an absorber, thus the amount of light propegating through the glass would need to be substantially higher in order to cause a problem.
Anyway - my thoughts.
i think i've about to give up on waiting for the white. my 3G is dead, and i'm tried of using this razr.
i think i might go get a black i4 tomorrow. provided they're in stock -_-
i think i might go get a black i4 tomorrow. provided they're in stock -_-
I wish I could but I'm giving up!
I can't wait that long and possibly get into a very late start into my next 2 year contract thus leaving me a problem for next year's model. ( I get the new model every year) So I'm just gonna skip this year and wait until next June/July time frame now. I'm very sad about it but it's for the best.
I bet once the white iPhone is out, it's gonna be the most problematic of the two. I regret buying the black one less and less (despite wanting the white one from the beginning).
Dear apple,
This is a non-issue. My 2008 white MacBook leaks light through plastic, yet you didn't delay the release of that, did you?
Also, if you avoid holding the phone a certain way, nobody will even notice the light leakage.
This is a non-issue. My 2008 white MacBook leaks light through plastic, yet you didn't delay the release of that, did you?
Also, if you avoid holding the phone a certain way, nobody will even notice the light leakage.
STEVE JOBS LIED about white iPhone 4 availability!!!
STEVE JOBS LIED!!!
Now we won't have our white iPhones until probably October, November. He should be held accountable for this.
Email him and complain!
sjobs@apple.com
STEVE JOBS LIED!!!
Now we won't have our white iPhones until probably October, November. He should be held accountable for this.
Email him and complain!
sjobs@apple.com
STEVE JOBS LIED!!!
Now we won't have our white iPhones until probably October, November. He should be held accountable for this.
Email him and complain!
sjobs@apple.com
so because there's manufacturing problems, he lied?
Hard to believe with all of the issues they've had with the iPhone4 that even coloring is now an issue. I'm thinking iPhone 5 will have some more thought involved.
Not that I really believe this report, but I don't care about light leakage. I know that many do, so if it is true, I can understand why Apple would delay the phone because of it.
