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Will new antenna improved iPhone 4 be released on 1st Oct?
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but there won't be a new antenna. Any redesign would have had to be submitted to the FCC for approval and if that happened then everyone would have been all over it.
If they do a lot of current owners will be **** pissed with and business wise apple wouldn't want their stocks to go down.
My suspicions are that after sept 30th, the new iPhones that come out will come boxed with a black bumper already installed or somewhere in the box.
The delay is probably due to having to redesign the packaging and getting it to the factory to make the boxes.
I think they will glue the bumper to the iPhone making it impossible to remove and thus solving all reception issues. 
Most people seem to pass right by this. Any submission of a design change that would be released in less than a month would have been seen already, even if the details were kept temporarily confidential.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Credit to Zero Punctuation for the joke.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Credit to Zero Punctuation for the joke.
Not true. They could have asked for it to be held like they do with everything else.
But there is no redesign, I agree with you there.
Um... because the Free Case Program cutoff date is September 30th. Not hard to make that leap in thought process.
They spent years developing the iPhone 4. There are not going to do some major redesign in such a short period of time when they will have an entirely new model out that has been under development for probably 18 months itself, in another 9-10 months.
They can't make the phones fast enough to sell them as they are now. There is absolutely zero reason for them to spend any time or money addressing this non-issue.
They can't make the phones fast enough to sell them as they are now. There is absolutely zero reason for them to spend any time or money addressing this non-issue.
Financially, Apple has to decide if they want to continue to loose money and continue to give out free bumpers, or if the media frenzy has calmed down enough that they can continue to charge $29 for each bumper. September 30th is the end of the 2010 Fiscal Year and the End of the Financial Quarter. They are not redesigning the iPhone 4's antenna.
United States
The U.S. government's fiscal year begins on October 1 of the previous calendar year and ends on September 30 of the year with which it is numbered. Prior to 1976, the fiscal year began on July 1 and ended on June 30. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 stipulated the change to allow Congress more time to arrive at a budget each year, and provided for what is known as the "transitional quarter" from July 1, 1976 to September 30, 1976. As stated above, the tax year for a business is governed by the fiscal year it chooses.
For example, the United States government fiscal year for 2010 ("FY 2010" or "FY10") is as follows:
1st Quarter: October 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009
2nd Quarter: January 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
3rd Quarter: April 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010
4th Quarter: July 1, 2010 - September 30, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year
United States
The U.S. government's fiscal year begins on October 1 of the previous calendar year and ends on September 30 of the year with which it is numbered. Prior to 1976, the fiscal year began on July 1 and ended on June 30. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 stipulated the change to allow Congress more time to arrive at a budget each year, and provided for what is known as the "transitional quarter" from July 1, 1976 to September 30, 1976. As stated above, the tax year for a business is governed by the fiscal year it chooses.
For example, the United States government fiscal year for 2010 ("FY 2010" or "FY10") is as follows:
1st Quarter: October 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009
2nd Quarter: January 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
3rd Quarter: April 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010
4th Quarter: July 1, 2010 - September 30, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year
You are right about the fiscal year, but it is not really costing Apple anything other than lost profit. The bumpers cost something like $1 to make and they were selling them for $29...
Now in all seriousness, if it is possible to retrofit a coating to the phone then that might be a solution. However I think the end result will be all phones come with a bumper in the box and a warning about reception if not used.