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.
MacDailyNews Take: Mr. Jobs, the ball is now in your court.
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I’m happy for those who say they are having no problems with the new phone. Good for them. But…
A great many – maybe a majority – of us who stood in long lines to get Steve’s latest magic now are the completely demoralized owners of what is basically a non working phone.
I want Steve to make it right which means fixing the hardware – the only solution – I think coating the antenna with a non conducting material is probably what needs to be done – and then providing me with a replacement.
That’s what I expect. That is what I demand. That is the ONLY thing that will prevent this disaster from becoming THE defining moment in Apple history – the moment every Apple competitor has been praying for. They will not let it die and I don’t blame them.
What I find about the bars is the longer you’re there, the prettier the women look.
Sshhh, don’t tell anyone what we iPhone 4 owners quickly learned: we’re holding the most incredible piece of mobile computing technology ever created. iPhone 4 owners should take these ads–and the “antenna problems” articles by the tech media–and spread them around, agreeing that there may be “issues”, sort of like:
“Yeah, right, my new iPhone 4 is, well, just okay. I’ve noticed when calling three levels down underground in a parking garage in Cornstalk, Kansas it, well, keeps breaking up. Yeah, yeah, I can make calls with it, but you know, it’s not perfect. The glass is, well, weird, and it gets smudges when eating my favorite brownies. And my friend broke his when dropping it out of his car while driving in the mall parking lot. He thinks it might have been okay if he hadn’t driven over it. A pretty fragile gadget, if you ask me. And finally, the new OS update really screwed up the iPhone, the folders and multitasking have just made this thing impossibly complicated to use, what a disaster!”
Hey, it’s a free market. Motorola’s allowed to try to drum up interest in this ugly-assed phone. Problem is, Motorola is attempting to sell this phone on raw hardware specs, which, as a marketing strategy, generally loses out to the question of the overall user experience, which is what the iPhone excels at. The antenna controversy is the best shot that iPhone competitors have at luring a few fence-sitters over to their products. It’s already being revealed to be an overblown non-issue that doesn’t affect phone call quality, and, in those rare instances where it might, is easily remedied. Maybe I can get a pair of Bruno Magli’s to go with this Droid?
What’s so “ridiculous” about this ad? Is that not in fact true? I have an iPhone 4. One of the key reasons I upgraded from a 3G is the design. I had my 3G for almost 2 years and never put it in a case. I just loved the design too much to waste it on a big piece of rubber. So I find it very concerning when people keep saying “oh, it’s not a big deal, just buy a case.” I don’t want a case, free or otherwise. I want the phone to work as advertised. Apple has two real options here. Issue a software fix or issue a hardware recall. I won’t tolerate anything less.
Only thing worse than Jobs’ reality distortion field right now is MDN’s. How bad must things get before MDN stops making excuses for Jobs? Must the phone spontaneously combust? I could already see it now….
MDN’s Take: iPhone explodes because it’s the hottest phone on the market.
I couldn’t get my phone to do this, so I thought it was complete bullsh_t. Just another iPhone hater FUD fest… ’till someone showed me how to actually do the trick…
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To give some background we were a group of techwise mountain-bikers in a parking-lot (with poor signal coverage from alll carriers) after a group ride and there were a couple new iPhone 4’s in the group. Many were ogling the new iPhones but we also have our cache of apple haters brandishing various flavior ‘roids and BB’s (if we have any win mobile users left in the group they aren’t admitting to it at this point
First your palms have to be really damp, -flop sweat damp- normal perspiration won’t do -at least for me (unless you are currently terrified or just finished a workout you will likely need to wet your hand slightly or lick your palm)
Then you put the lower right corner in the crease of your palm and wrap the fingers around the phone, now squeeze till it is painful (no I am not kidding you really have to squeeze hard enough to make it hurt to get the full effect)
If you do this (obviously without a case) in a very poor signal area you can actually get the call to drop. However (as we found out) you can do a similar trick with virtually any smartphone by simply by wrapping your hand around the phone.
So basically if you have been one of the lucky (or dedicated) people to have already purchased an iPhone 4 and find yourself using your phone in a poor signal area with very damp hands DO NOT grab the phone placing the corner in the corer of your left palm and squeeze till it is painful or you might drop your call!
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In our group most of the ‘roid owners were surprised it was such a contrived problem and so difficult to do (a typical “non-issue cooked up by the apple haters and those with much to loose in another successful apple launch) And after much playing with all the phones by everyone in the group all were impressed with the “4” and almost all agreed it was clearly the best smartphone on the market. We even converted a couple of the BB owners, who will be sporting iPhones as soon as they can find one to purchase (and made more than one of the new ‘roid owners sorry they listened to the BS)
LOL that was ad money not well spent… That ad will achieve nothing.
Besides MDN, defend Apple here? You got some stoopid Google Linux Taliban as intern?
i hate it how everyone seems to substantiate their claims with what they personally experienced. i have it. for me, the phone sucks. at&t coverage sucks. and apples antenna sucks. nuff said. it’s great if yours is working. but mine is not. dropped calls are not why i signed a 2 year contract and shelled out $300.
WOW. how hypocritical. You say what you hate people doing and you turn around in the same breath and do it yourself.