State of the art testing facility with 17 anechoic chambers costing $100 millions dollars manned by 18 PhD scierntists.
Pretty cool, huh?
Posted on 07/16/2010 11:37:21 AM PDT by Swordmaker
I attempted to put in a new battery in my Iphone. I broke the screen while doing this.
I sent my iphone to http://ubreakifix.com for repair. They did a great job and very affordable.
If I had known about this company earlier, I would have had them do my battery swap instead.
I think we should all stand up and cheer that a CEO of a major company has the guts to get in front of his customers and air the dirty laundry. Most other corporations would never send out a CEO in this situation, they'd instead send some anonymous flack out there to take the heat. But not Apple and certainly not Steve Jobs.
The announcement of everybody getting a free case is pretty exciting. I can't wait to get mine. Even though I already have a case for my phone, I could always use another one. What other company out there would make such a grand gesture? Would Ford Motors pinstripe your car for free if it was recalled for some glitch? Would Microsoft give you a free mousepad for a glitch in their software? I think not! Only Apple would bestow free stuff on their customers like that.
I think Steve Jobs was very down-to-earth and modest in his presentation. He freely admitted that he and his company are not perfect. However, all us loyal customers are willing to settle for near-perfect.
I only wish I had a billion extra dollars lying around so I could invest it all in this company. This Apple company is definitely going places.
Please ping me when a picture of the free case is posted somewhere. Can't wait to see what it is going to look like.
State of the art testing facility with 17 anechoic chambers costing $100 millions dollars manned by 18 PhD scierntists.
Pretty cool, huh?
Neat!
The thing that people don’t understand is that the problem manifests itself only in low-signal areas.
For the iPhone, this issue is exacerbated by two things:
1. AT&T’s network has a lot of low-signal areas compared to some other networks.
2. Apple had an error in computation of how many bars the phone should be showing for a given signal strength - ie, they were showing more bars than they should have before the signal attenuation, so the problem looks more dramatic than it is. That is to say, the s/w error might show five bars prior to the attenuation, then drops to 2 bars, when it probably should have started at four bars and dropped to two.
Perhaps Apple had a deal with AT&T to show more bars in low signal areas so AT&T wouldn't look so bad? Not computation but deliberate?
yitbos
•For every iPhone 4 purchased prior to September 30, 2010. “Is a new, fixed, version coming out then?” Possibly the same basic item with a rubber bead around it, kind of a built in bumper ? Avoid the first problem and stick it to those third party case manufacturers again.
I have a couple 2G iPones and can reduce the signal by using the death grip. On my new G4 I can kill all the bars but still seem to be able to call out.
Truth is the problem is minor to me and I doubt I will put a bumper on it.
On the plus side I don’t need Tom Tom’s car kit to run navigon anymore, it works fine laying on my lap. As does the iPad by the way.
The problems to me are minor, to some they may be totally unacceptable, and I can see why they may think so. But it isn’t the end of the world.
I don’t know if Apple had a deal, but I do know a little bit about computing field strength and signal levels, and I could envision a situation where AT&T had more RF engineers than Apple did in the early days (and Apple stated that they’ve been mis-computing the bars since the very first iPhone), and AT&T gave them an incorrect algorithm.
Remember the AT&T ad campaign of “more bars in more places?” It wasn’t just about iPhones.
With Apple now having major-league RF design chops, I’m sure one of their guys was tasked to look into this issue when the reports came out and discovered the faulty computation. For most of the software jocks, they would have glossed right over that code, because the computation within made no sense to them - as long as it seemed to work, it was good to go.
RF engineering is hard. A lot harder than it looks. When I ditched all the RF studying I did in school to become a software geek, I was able to teach myself everything I needed that typically comes with a BSCS or BSCE degree in about a year of reading books.
I’ve never met anyone who taught themselves fields and waves for their own amusement.
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