Instead, they are on backorder. Everywhere!
it just encourages them!
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A computer tech guy here at the U of C just upgraded his iPhone to the new one. He said the so-called “death grip” isn’t an issue. He’s already put it in a plastic case and said that he could duplicate the “problem” with his older iPhone. He’s very happy with it.
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Agreed.
I’ve come to the conclusion that this antenna issue is somewhat overblown. Is there a de-tuning effect? Sure. Is there some reduction of RF strength when you grab an antenna? Duh, of course. Unlike most of the people shooting off their mouths about this, I’ve taken (and suffered through) “Fields and Waves” in electrical engineering. Wrap your hand around any 1.8Ghz antenna (whether you contact the metal or not) and you’ll reduce the efficacy of the antenna. Put the antenna between the user’s hand and his skull full of wet mush and the problem becomes worse, not better. Yet we all seem to be making calls and shoving a whole lot of data to and fro on these stupid phones.
But that’s not the reason why it is likely that I won’t go with an iPhone. It is the network issue (and the data plans on the networks) that will likely push me to the Droid platform on Verizon.
First, there’s the coverage issue: AT&T’s network basically sucks in the rural west. There, I said it. Someone had to do it, so I did.
What I’d like is an iPhone on Verizon, but that appears to not be in the cards soon enough to lock down an unlimited data contract with Verizon before they milk the difference in networks as much as they can with the Droid X release.
Unless some huge change happens by the first week of August, I might well go with the VZ/Droid combo to lock in the unlimited data plan for two years. I’ve looked at the Droid programming environment and it is pretty good - maybe not as much to my liking as the iPhone, but I can live with it.
After looking seriously at the Droid in the last week, I really have to say that Apple better get their story straight and get this issue dealt with and off the table. From what I see, the smartphone market is going to come down to two platforms - the iPhone and the Droid, and it will be a steel cage deathmatch.
I now believe this enough that when RIMM next pops up, I’m probably going to initiate a long-term short position on the stock. I see nothing out of Blackberry that looks like they have a plan to respond to the iPhone & Droid. They’ve got only a few months to salvage their future, and the window is going to close by the end of the year at the rate things are progressing.
The guy sounds like a tobacco company lawyer.
They can’t have it back!
- Posted on my iPhone 4
My nephew dumped his iphone for a Sprint 4g after Apple gave him a hard time over an iphone he bought for his daughter. Seems to me Apple is getting too arrogant. My husband got an iphone last year, and after about 2 mths, it wouldn’t hold a charge, so, he took in to Apple and they told him he must have gotten it wet, which he hadn’t, they wouldn’t stand by their phone and he ended up buying a new one. Second one had problems, so back to Apple he went. They replaced it, but he still had problems with the third one, so he went online and figured why it would not charge properly.
I have the more expensive model and have not had problems with it until now when it doesn’t always want to charge properly when I use the car charger, but his has been the cheaper model which has been problematic.
Sorry but no Bravo TV fashion accessories for me. Apple represents the triumph of style over substance and I am against that pop culture trend.
tell it to Consumer Reports...From a fanboys frantic typing to Gods ear...
You can have my iPhone 4 after you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Rush just said the same thing in the context that nothing the media is reporting on is real... Dittos Rush!
It’s not a “scandal”; it’s a defective product.
Cell phone makers should be striving to improve performance, not hide defects.
I personally think the drop calls issue is on AT&T’s end, because everyone in my family experiences this and my husband and I have other types of phones. My kids have iphones, and my son just upgraded from the original iphone to the 4. He’s had no antenna issues.
And the camera on the new iphone is amazing.
I keep seeing these threads. iPhone people. Anti-iPhone people. Arguments abound. Death wished upon all. Geesh, I’m tired of it. It’s like the Mac/Windows wars, squared.
I was in a place to choose recently. My wife and I both wanted iPhones. We had decided months in advance. Well, we live in the Great Wild West, and out here, AT & T sucks, to put it mildly. We wanted to stick with Verizon, so Droid was the choice. We had 7-year-old Kyocera phones, so no more waiting (like to next year and the promised iPhone for Verizon).
The problem with iPhone isn’t iPhone, it’s AT & T. It’s that simple. Almost all the complaints I see here are because the network is a POS. Duh. AT & T!