Tech ping please
Sounds like Obama needs to appoint an iPhone4 czar.
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Eff Apple. I get so sick of Rush marvelling over Apple this and that. I loathe MSFT and Google. I give credit to Jobs for blocking porn but this Apple infatuation is a joke. Jobs has done an amazing job but idiots worship Apple like they worship Star Trek.
Just because the customer service people are giving a line out about the iphone 4 doesn’t mean it’s not a fantastic phone. I love it and have not noticed ANY difference in coverage or calling or reception from my previous iPhone.
Remember too that in these first weeks, you can return your iPhone for a full refund if you are not happy. A class action lawsuit is just stupid at this point (well, not for the attorneys).
HATER!! HATER!! HATER!! ;-)
It’s not the way the phone works, it’s the perception of how the phone works that matters. It’s more of the function follows form. Make it shiny and pretty and slick, and you can overlook the fact it has problems doing the basic functions of a phone.
I’ve read a few posts on tech forums that said the problem is the transmit functionality of the phone, not necessarily the receive. So the upcoming software patch that Jobs hinted at will be to crank the transmit power up to compensate. Of course, that will kill battery life, but they’ll figure out a way to PR-cover that as well, if it is the case.
Suckers. I never want to be the first one to own anything. You pay too much, and all that extra money goes to the R&D to fix all the problems. Big waste. But hey, vanity comes at a price.
I don’t get it. If they don’t work, just get your money back, and go buy a competing product that does work.
I might get one after Verizon has them (in January), and most of the kinks are worked out. Then again, Android will have further evolved by that point also.
Then again, I don’t really *need* either of them. ;-) My 4-year-old non-touchscreen decidedly uncool cell phone still makes phone calls quite well, thank you. And that’s all I really need it for.
From what I’ve read earlier, Nokia abandoned an external body-antenna fusion format precisely for these reasons. Apple didn’t want to purchase patents that Nokia had, for antenna designs, and decided to hoe their own “road”, so to speak, with obviously disastrous *performance* results. Sales however, isn’t going to be affected by much.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
EXCERPT:
Well, this must be one of the most epic “I told you so” moments in the history of consumer electronics. Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen, an antenna expert over at Denmark’s Aalborg University, managed to get his concerns about the iPhone 4’s external antennae on the record a cool two weeks before the phone was even released. In an interview on June 10, the Danish brainbox explained that he wasn’t impressed by Steve Jobs’ promises of better reception, describing external antennas as “old news,” and suggested that contact with fleshlings could result in undesirable consequences to the handset’s reception:
“The human tissue will in any event have an inhibitory effect on the antenna. Touch means that a larger portion of antenna energy becomes heat and lost.”
Machine-translated that may be, but you get the point. Researchers at Gert’s university have already shown that over 90 percent of any phone’s antenna signal can be stifled by holding it in the right place, but he’s highlighting the specific exposure to skin contact as a separate issue to be mindful of. Good to know we’ve got sharp minds out there, and as to his suggested solution, Gert says phones should ideally have two antennae that act in a sort of redundant array, so that when one is blocked, the other can pick up the slack. So, what are we going to do now, Apple?
I LOVE THIS CARTOON!
This is a HUGE mistake! Apple has worked hard to develop a "buying experience" - beyond just delivering a gadget to a consumer - to promote loyalty and exclusivity. Now those efforts over a long period of time, are badly tainted by lying to fanboys who are early adopters, trend setters, and sentiment / opinion leaders.
This sounds very familiar - like Toyota who aggressively pursued market share at the expense of safety. They ignored the feedback from customers on sudden acceleration problems. (No, it must be your fault silly customer - we are Toyota. Maybe you have Restless Leg syndrome). Ha, what impeccable timing! There's a Toyota safety commercial in my face right now - boasting they're now spending $1 million every HOUR on safety - probably BS - but that's a big number if they're anywhere near that amount. And BP with all their touchy-feely commercials on how progressive they are with alternative fuels (and they're Cap and Tax supporters). But the problem was that they had the worst record on safety of any oil company operating in the US.
So, it's all about what you DO, not what you say.
They just expected people to live with it because “they’re Apple.”
Just got it... nothing wrong with it... you’d have to pry My Precious from my cold dead fingers.
I got my iPhone4 this morning... and cannot duplicate the problem... and the reception is better than the reception I have been getting on my iPhone 3Gs. In an area by my computer, where three cell towers have consistently been fighting for the signal, over SIX phones, three iPhones, LG, and two Motorolas, all of which have show everything from zero to five bars, the iPhone 4 has consistently this evening show FIVE BARS... no matter WHERE I've held it, on the lines, across the lines, wet hands, dry hands, leather, no leather. I've TRIEAD to get it to lose signal and can't... just like most other iPhone 4 owners.
In addition, my reception on my Plantronics 835 Bluetooth earpiece is FAR BETTER, clearer, and louder than what i was receiving from my iPhone 3Gs. I had planned on replacing it with a JawBone and handing the Plantronics off to my daughter along with the 3Gs... but I'll keep it.
Your assertion, based on the complaints of a few of the 1.7 million purchasers of the iPhone, is baseless. In my opinion it's FUD.