Today, Motorola ran a full page ad in The New York Times for its upcoming ‘Droid X’ smartphone, which includes the copy:
And most importantly, it comes with a double antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like and use it just about anywhere to make crystal clear calls.
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@Edward – That is the most nonsensical fear mongering I have ever heard. Whether the antenna is inside or outside the phone, the signal still has to leave the phone at the same strength. Direct contact with the antenna has nothing to do with it.
Steve, stop letting you ego get in the way. It’s the same pill that almost put you out of business before the iPhone. Fix my phone and stop making excuses!!!!!
“HAVING to buy a bumper so you do not lose bars is an EPIC FAIL for Apple.”
Uh, you’re wrong. That’s pretty typical of the idiotic drama surrounding this non-issue. You don’t HAVE to… (blah blah blah)
I’m sitting right here with a buck-nekkid iPhone 4. Its reception is better than its predecessor. I don’t see the fail here. I even have a bumper and I haven’t put it on b/c I like the phone better without anything on it. People are wringing their hands about dBm and bars and they haven’t a clue what that means with respect to actually using the phone to make calls.
Participate in the drama if you must, but I’ve actually been using the phone since last Wednesday and it works great. Calls are better than the 3G S. So try to remain calm.
@ Lalit – Apple would have tested the phones more thoroughly, but they had to limit field testing after the prototype got left in a bar and dissected by Gizmodo.
What do you guys expect a competitor to do? It’s called business. It’s not going to make me buy a droid, but it might sway some people not familiar with iPhones. Hopefully this will help Apple to take some real action
This is so rude of motorola apple should be sending a update to the iPhone 4 users to fix the bug.So this means they play dirty in the tech world because they known the iPhone is better than a droid all together!!!!!!!
Apple should remotely brick all whiners iphones.
I lost a bar… Whaaaaaa
Easy solution is a software change that detects when the grip interferes with the signal and maintains bar strength appearance, and if the call drops it simply gets blamed on at&t;.
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In this corner we have AAPL weighing in with a market cap of 228 billion—and in this corner Motorola at a mighty 15 billion. This will be a one round knockout so don’t please leave your seats folks.
Well, I def ha e the grip of death. So, I bought a case, which I planned anyway. Problem ended. Move on.
I have had many a dropped calls and data freezes with my new iPhone 4 in many different locations until I set it down. My daughters iPhone does the same thing as well. I just started using my 3GS until I see what is going to happen. I may take it back depending on what happens and opt for the Droid X on Verizon.
> Today, Motorola ran a full page ad in The New York Times for its upcoming ‘Droid X’ smartphone
“Most importantly,” since our phone isn’t ready to be on the market yet, we’ll take some impotent pot shots at our competition while we still can. Better hurry, so that you can get in a few months of sales before iPhone invades Verizon.
I hope a lot of people read this FUD and DON’t buy an iPhone.
So we can go back to the old days when Apple products were for smart people and the idiot sheep masses buy the other crap.
At least the stupid whining would stop.
If I were Verizon I would wipe my Motorola and flush it down the Droid. I dread the though of using a Droid.
@theloniousMac “ugly bags of mostly water” Nice Star Trek TNG reference. 😀
This all reminds me of all the ipod killers of old. Everybody taking shots at Apple while Apple just deals its relationship with its customers. As if nothing else matters.
You know who never took shots at Apple like this? Microsoft when selling Windows. Microsoft acted as if the mac didn’t exist and look at what incredible innovation they were bringing to DOS users. And then look at how excellent 95 was compared to 3.1.
Because that’s what winning companies do.
When you advertise like this, you’re also reinforcing the branding of your competitor. Which, by the way, is a great way to grow a 5% share to a 10% share. (“Hello I’m a mac…”)
What will really be interesting is to see if MS is completely dead or not. If not, maybe Windows 7 will be next year’s Droid, just like Droid is this year’s Palm.
FACT: The iphone has a reception problem when held,
FACT: A case or bumper solves the issue.
Just buy a case and get on with life. Once you don’t touch the bezel with your hands the problem goes away. My phone was unusable before the bumper, now I’m happy with it. It should be in a case anyway… I do agree Apple’s “your holding it wrong” is completly lame and bullshit, they shoud give away bumpers
What ever happened to “Innocent until proven guilty”?
oh yeah:
Guilty even though proven innocent…
@bobo Agreed.
I’m just pissed that Apple has now put themselves in a vulnerable position with this reception issue for the competition to pounce on.
I don’t feel sorry for Apple on this, they slipped up big time.
Android 2.2 and Adobe Flash Player coming in late Summer in over the air update.
“Droid X: in late Summer we’ll suck less!” or
“iBrick!”
This seems to be a theme with both Windows and Android “At some indeterminate time in the future we MAY be good, so buy now!!”
Someone earlier noted that Apple should have used a dual antenna design. They did. This from Apple:
The band provides impressive structural rigidity and allows for its incredibly thin, refined design. It also functions as both iPhone 4 antennas.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/
I just wish mine would finally arrive!! It is on backorder through work until the end of July.
What a bunch of desperate morons. Anyone with half a brain knows that every device will get affected in some way. Maybe Apple needs to run that over the air sync of your OS is stupid and dumb, because unlike the Droid, our updates won’t brick your device unbeknownst to you!
Perhaps there is a subset of iPhone 4’s with an antenna problem – I don’t know. Certainly there are many people who claim to have no problems at all. The other problems may be due to AT&T rather than Apple, or some split between the two. Occasionally users have had to push Apple to do the right thing; but most of the time Apple has been good about dealing with product issues.
The truth will come out eventually through scientific investigation. I don’t take much stock in the early reports of user issues with a new product because the bad experiences are typically exaggerated and have not been thoroughly vetted by experts.
Don’t whine about “being forced to order an expensive case” if you have not even bothered to test the “grip of death” theory.
If you are concerned about the signal strength bars on your iPhone 4, or are experiencing dropped calls and suspect that this iPhone 4 “grip of death” thing might have something to do with it, then you can test it very easily and inexpensively. Just insulate your hand from the external antennas with a piece of cloth or a glove, rubber band, electrical (vinyl) tape, etc. and perform some tests.
If the addition of insulation between your hand and the iPhone 4 does not help significantly, then perhaps it is a hardware production flaw rather than a design flaw. No company delivers 1.7M units without some production flaws getting past quality control.