“The latest case in point is the new iPhone 4. It’s chock full of new features — 100 of them, Steve Jobs says. But many are new only to Apple. A front-facing camera for video chatting? Running multiple applications at one time? The ability to shoot high-definition video in a handheld device? You don’t need an iPhone 4 to do those things,” Jaroslovsky writes. “No, what Apple does best — does brilliantly, in the case of the iPhone 4 — is to create a unified user experience. It doesn’t have to invent the technology; it figures out how to fit the technology together to make it easy, seamless and mainstream.”
“Physically, the new iPhone has undergone the largest overhaul since its 2007 debut. Gone is the rounded design of all the previous models, replaced by a thinner body that now lies flat on a level surface. Gone too is any trace of plasticky feel. The new exterior is made entirely of hardened glass and a metal frame that is reputed to improve wireless reception,” Jaroslovsky writes. “The iPhone 4 needs all the reception help it can get, especially in the U.S., where it’s available exclusively on AT&T Inc.’s network for $299 for a 32-gigabyte model on a two-year contract, and $199 for 16 gigabytes. Sad to say, even the new design hasn’t eliminated the dropped calls that have plagued the phone from its debut and tarnished AT&T’s image in key markets like New York and San Francisco. I lost three in my first hour of using the phone in midtown Manhattan.”
MacDailyNews Take: Hello, Mr, Jobs? Every iPhone 4 review pockmarked by AT&effingT. Uh, hello? Can you hear us now? Oh, right, we’re all stuck on AT&T. In some places, especially where reviewers happen to live and work, two cans and a string would work better.
Jaroslovsky continues, “If you’re actually able to get a call through, you’ll notice some big improvements. Apple has added a second microphone and noise-canceling technology, and the results are instantly apparent… In true Apple fashion, the value of the overall package is greater than the sum of its already impressive parts. The long lines and rapturous reviews that have greeted the iPhone 4’s debut are by and large justified.”
Full article here.
I can’t wait for the iPhone 4 to get to Fido in Alberta so I can not have any of the problems people constantly whine about. There are iPhones everywhere. And I ve never dropped a call, get 6 gigs if tethered data with no tethering charge and only have to worry about elevators, basements and backwoods locales for reception.
@Harvey
Thanks for the explanation, carriers are obliged to service even the rural parts in many countries – even if that means the service will mount to losses.
The carriers are not happy about it, but they have no choice. Can’t really say what approach is better, I guess it depends who you ask
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Oh, come off you edging high horse MDN. You should know damn well that Apple doesn’t listen to reviewers and other self-aggrandizing pundits’ opinions, especially pompous ones that live in NYC.
Get over yourself. You know damn well that if Verizon had the iPhone, it would bs just as bad in a concrete canyon full of assholes such ad ths likes of that craphole called Manhattan.
Ever consider that being in and among steel laden buildings in congested cities isn’t the typical environment well suited for radio based communications? Such areas seem to attract folks with unrealistic expectations and breed people who like to talk (or blog) more that think. Their opinions rarely reflect the reality that surrounds most of the world’s populations.
People living deep in caves or underground have similar radio (cell phone) reception problems, but they aren’t active bloggers.
Reading blogs requires keeping an informed perspective. It is rarely a good place to form a realistic perspective.
I didn’t know the world revolved solely around New York and San Francisco! I guess that is why the country is as screwed up as it is, but I digress… Anyway, my friend has used an iPhone here in the Mid-Atlantic area over the past two years and she has had a superb experience with AT&T;and no problems with her phone or her calls…
Or as Apple likes to say, “It just works!”. Sorry New York and San Francisco, like Steve Jobs would say if you lose bars on the iPhone 4 if you hold it this way, Steve says “Don’t hold it that way!” I guess Steve would tell our friends in New York and San Francisco to “Just move!”, like it said to the guy regarding his app name, “just change it, no big deal!”, well, NY and SF, “Just Move!”!
I live in the Grosse Pointe/greater Detroit area and
my AT&T;reception is superb. Getting 5 bars when
cruising the internet, even inside the drinking holes
I frequent. I have no gripes about AT&T;.
AT&T;is two cans and a string. Without the string.
F*#k the reviews and MDN. A**hats!
@Grrrilla
Not spending any more money on shaky technology (beit AT&T;and/or Apple) is not shooting myself in the foot. It’s limping along, hoping to heal, until a new bionic foot goes on sale. Euphamisms aside, AT&T;gets enough of my money, and renewing a 2-yr contract with those bastards for a single-step phone upgrade is NOT going to happen. They already get too much of my money each month.
ATT is so dreadful that iPhone sales are through the roof with people lining up for hours to be the first to get one.