“Well, duh,” Diaz writes. “As Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pointed out in a post of his own this morning, the antenna problem on the iPhone 4 isn’t a software issue. It’s a design defect. And his advice is simple: either live with it or return it.”
MacDailyNews Take: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a well-known anti-Apple scribbler who delights in overblowing any “issue,” real or concocted, and spinning against Apple. Reading his pieces in hindsight is always good for a laugh. Whatever he purports to be “threats” to Apple have never seemed to hurt Apple’s unit sales or stock price at all.
Diaz continues, “As the iPhone 4 bashing continues, I can’t help but wonder if the folks in Cupertino are getting a little taste of what Redmond must have been feeling when everyone was bashing Windows Vista – stuck between a rock and a hard place because there’s really no quick answer to give iPhone owners. Well, nothing beyond 1) scale down to a previous version, 2) buy from a competitor or 3) wait for the next update.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Diaz’s desperation is palpable and laughable.
@ WTFrank
It won’t work this time, because most of the people doing the “complaining” don’t even own an iPhone 4.
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It’s quite obvious that the competition (and their fanboys) will desperately latch onto anything that is potentially negative for iPhone. And the media will go along, because Apple failing at something is a better story for them these days than yet another Apple success story; look how much coverage the relatively minor WiFi malfunction at the WWDC iPhone 4 demo received.
@Botvinnik:
The variant I remember from my brief stint at high school teaching was:
“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; those who can’t teach, teach teachers; those who can’t teach teachers, do educational research.”
I sometimes work in a room with walls, floor and ceiling built with:
a. 14 inches of solid steel (walls, ceiling and floor welded [full thickness welds] into a single unit with the doors overlapping so when closed it is effectively a single unit).
b. within that 2 inches of pure lead lead
c. within that 0.1 inches of pure tantalum
d. within that 0.25 inches of pure copper
e. within that an acryilic coating so copper and such don’t oxidize
When I go in and shut the doors (they weigh a few tons each, bye-the-bye) my cell phone does not work! It must be a design flaw in the phone! Maybe I should sue! I’m sure glad I haven’t picked up my iPhone 4 yet. /sarcasm
Success from this company is going to kill them one day whether they know it or not.
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From now on bing and decide. http://www.bing.com
Not unimportant difference is that iPhone4 is selling like s**t. Vista wasn’t exactly …
Sam: Let’s take your most important concern first. There is no evidence of a hardware defect in the iPhone 4’s antenna. Yes, the iPhone 4 has attenuation of reception when held in certain ways, but that arises from physics and is common to all cell phones, and does not indicate any hardware defect in the iPhone 4. The expert views of this are beginning to arrive and are for the most part confirming Apple’s “Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4.” See the references cited, infra:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-r…
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200453/antenna_exp…
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010…
And it appears that the Nokia E71 and the Droid Incredible experience exactly the same problem of attenuated reception, when held in certain ways, to pretty much the same extent as the iPhone 4. However, those phones have a conventional internal antenna design, yet they experience the same problem, when they are held in a way that brings a human hand in close proximity to their respective internal antennas. See http://www.edibleapple.com/signal-attenuation-is-….
So does the iPhone 4 have a hardware defect that degrades its reception of the radio signals that it is designed to receive? The answer to that is no. Does the iPhone 4 experience degradation of its radio signals, when in direct or close contact with human skin, as is true for all cell phones? Yes, it does. Is the iPhone 4’s degradation of radio signals, as a result of close or direct contact with human skin, worse than its predecessors? Or worse than its peers? The answer to both of those last two questions is also no. Also, a friend alerted me to this: Lance Ulanoff at PCMAG was on NBC news and said that their testing showed that there’s nothing wrong with the iPhone 4.
Next: The iTunes App Store was not hacked. Here you are simply wrong on the facts, which is a big no-no for a journalist. See http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/07/only_400_itunes_accounts_compromised_in_fraud_apple_says.html. This means that the malware was a Trojan or a trick that got some account holders to give up their account info or both, but there was no breach of Apple’s iTunes servers. That is simply factual incorrect.
Well, you are upset about the way Apples iOS software, f.k.a. iPhone OS, calculated the representation of bars. Well Sam, I’ve got news for you. There is no standard or legal required way of representing signal strength as bars. Each manufacturer of a mobile OS does represents signal strength as it see fit, and they all do it in a way that makes their cell phones look good. So I don’t know where you’d go to get a more honest representation of signal strength as bars, unless it is Apple, once it revises and updates the iOS to use AT&T;’s recommended formula. Another big journalist’ error: Failing to provide a fact with the relevant context, so that your readers actually know what the facts mean.
Is the iPhone 4 Apple’s Vista? Well, there is one big difference: Vista didn’t work; the iPhone 4 does work as advertise and as expected. See comments, supra. So notwithstanding all the speciously persuasive videos on YouTube, which show nothing more than the attenuation of reception as a result of touch from or close proximity to human skin, which is common to all cell phones, the iPhone 4 does not have defects in design that cause defective performance.
I can’t help you with AT&T;. If you don’t like their service and/or their plans, you will have to go elsewhere, because Steve Jobs and Ivan Seidenberg can’t get to a deal. Ivan believes that the network is where the real value is and ought to be and that devices are just fungible appliances that aren’t worth much and for which Verizon won’t pay much of subsidy. Jobs takes the view that at least Apple’s iOS devices have unique value and, thus, command a premium subsidy. Apple also won’t let anyone come between it and its customer, nor will it let anyone dictate to it how to make its devices or what services to offer with its devices. So for now, it is AT&T; take it or leave it.
4. Buy a case!
5. STFU.
Sam Diaz is a NeanderTech throwback troll.
“…stuck between a rock and a hard place because there’s really no quick answer to give iPhone owners…”
Except to stick a piece of electrical tape over the left side of the iPhone 4, if you live in a low signal area & you’re too poor to buy a bumper/case. Otherwise, you don’t care.
Try coming up with as simple or minimal a problem with Windows Vista.
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Having pointed out the minimal simplicity of the iPhone 4 hardware bug and its simple and cheap solution, I still have to take offense at this crap:
‘Chanson de Roland’ sez: “There is no evidence of a hardware defect in the iPhone 4’s antenna. Yes, the iPhone 4 has attenuation of reception when held in certain ways, but that arises from physics and is common to all cell phones, and does not indicate any hardware defect in the iPhone 4.”
Bullshite. The hardware bug is blatant: You don’t abut two different antennae close enough together where they can be shorted by touching the phone.
The experiment was to put the two antennae on the OUTSIDE of the phone. Oops. BAD idea resulting in a hardware bug. NO this particular bug is NOT common to ANY other phone. We are NOT talking about normal attenuation problems common with every mobile phone. Got that? Or do I have to post the same boring stuff 10 more times?
Am I some sort of savant that I am one of the few people who comprehend this very simple problem? It is NOT a BFD, and it IS a hardware bug. S I M P L E . Sheesh.
iPhone 4 is Apple’s “Vista”??? You mean Vista sold over 1,700,000 units within the first three days when it was launched?
Weird; I didn’t know vista was microsoft’s best selling os with the best cellular reception of all the competition
Thus guy can’t tell the difference between a pr nightmare and poor product sales what good is he? (not clicking)
Ya know, I’m so tired of this shit. Is there an antenna issue? Mine has it, doesn’t mean everyones has. So what did I do? I bought a case, which I do for all my iPhones. Problem solved.
My guess is that the next big shipment to roll off the line will have a protective coating. So the some of the first run was bad, early adopters beware.
Apple will correct it, they usually do.
As far as software, probably a few minor bugs. Guess what? It’s called an update.
People need to get a grip. Mountains out of mole hills. FUD monsters galore.
Personally, I think this new iPhone is vastly, vastly better than earlier versions.
An external antenna is not a ‘hardware’ bug. Mobile phones have had external antennas since the 80s. Shorting out external antennas and dropping calls have also been happening since the 80s.
A lightbulb socket is not a hardware bug even though you keep putting a wet appendage in it and repeatedly shock yourself.
Refrain from shorting out your antenna and your phone will work properly.
@ Shadowself
Do you sometimes work for Auric Goldfinger, or Dr. No? Your work space sounds super exclusive. (and yet your phone won’t work from there..)
Microsoft must still be shelling out the 10 grand for articles against Apple.
Dear Mr. Currie: If you kept your disrespectfull tounge in your ignorant head and bothered to look at the post at http://www.edibleapple.com/signal-attenuation-is-not-unique-to-the-iphone-also-affects-nokia-and-htc-devices/, you would see exactly the problem that the iPhone 4 is alleged to have being replicated exactly to the same extent on a Droid Incredible and a Nokia E71, as a hand is placed over where their antennas are located on those phones. And you can do that with any modern smartphone. That is why it is a common problem and is not a defect in the iPhone 4, unless you mean to say all modern cell phones with hidden antennas are defective.
And the iPhone 4 handles that problem better than most other smartphones in that the area that you have to touch produce the attenuation in reception is much smaller, leaving you the entire remaining area to hold the iPhone 4, and the iPhone 4’s performance when not attenuated by touching it in a way bridges the gaps is good to excellent. See http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2, and confirmed by Lance Ulanoff at PCMAG, who said on NBC news that their testing showed that there’s nothing wrong with the iPhone 4. And PCMAG is hardly a Mac centric paper. With a Nokia E 71 or a Droid Incredible you can’t without causing similar attenuation, hold those phones at the bottom, so you don’t hold them that way, if you don’t wish to degrade reception. For most other smartphones with conventional antenna designs, the bottom of the phone is the sensitive area that will produce degraded reception, when covered with a hand, because in convention designs, the FCC pretty much mandates that the antenna be at the bottom to reduce the user’s exposure to electromagnetic radiation. So for conventional designs don’t hold then at the bottom, and for the iPhone 4 you don’t hold it in a way that bridges the gap. Or, as Steve Jobs said: Don’t hold it that way. That is true for all cell phones. The only difference is in the way that you shouldn’t hold it.
So next time, before you start to run your insulting mouth, learn something so that your insults display your wit rather than your ignorance.
This is exactly why I don’t go to ZDNet anymore.. nothing but a bunch of hit-whores and commenters with hidden agendas. Hang out there for a while and you will see what I mean.. lame.
You talk about how many percentages of users do this and that, yet you offer no proof whatsoever. Go away if you have nothing better to do than make things up the way you would want them to be.
iPhone 4 is starting to feel like an outcast in the iPhone portfolio..
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The output of an iPhone 4 is very small, for instance…
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