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If it happens before September 24, I’ll be returning my black to exchange it for White.
But wIll it pass consumer report’s labs tests?
@breeze
Who cares? Consumer Reports has trashed themselves and their credibility when it comes to technology. Particularly as it relates to iPhone, and even more so with the iPhone 4.
They better figure that shit out I hate the smudgy looking black one. I’m glad I haven’t caved in yet and got
the black one.
No more “white guilt” for Apple…
Wow, it makes me wonder if Apple should’ve just kept the iPhone as black only. Too many headaches.
The only obstacle that has delayed the white phone is the process of redesigning the antenna so the phone will work like Steve Jobs promised when he rolled out at WWDC – holding it like most people hold a phone but later told they couldn’t hold it that way if they wanted it to make and maintain phone calls.
If they are ready to release the white phone now, that means they have fixed the antenna and I will soon be able to exchange my crippled one for one that works like it is suppose to – without any kind of stupid cover up such as a rubber band or dumb case.
@More lies
STFU moron.
btw… Mossberg, after using the iP4 for six weeks, says he cannot recommend it for people with weak ATT service at their home, work, or travel (just about everywhere) because the iP4 cannot maintain phone calls very well.
@AAPLguy
The morons around here are the ones who willingly allow Steve Jobs to make claims that are not true by continuing to praise him as some master of the universe and buy his expensive, and now, way to frequently experienced, shoddy products – such as phones that drop calls when you touch them in the wrong spot, disabling 3G phones with software they can’t handle, and iPads that turn themselves off in the sun.
And… Mossberg pointed out that Steve Jobs claimed the iP4 antenna was a superior design – a breakthrough for antenna design – but, in fact, it has more trouble supporting phone calls than any of the earlier iPhone models or most other models of phones from just about every other phone maker.
what “obstacles”??????
Lowest return rate, highest customer satisfaction, higer sales… what “obstacles” are they talking about?
There’s gonna be another stampede and long lines for days at all Apple Stores when the white iPhone comes out!
@more lies
You remain a moronic, pontificating little prat.
So there.
@Troy
They’re writing about the White model which isn’t available yet.
@AAPLguy
more lies name is spot on. what’s the problem
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@morelies-
we all think you are a moron because you somehow disillusioned yourself into thinking you know what you are talking about all the while you don’t. You just don’t understand you have no idea what you are talking about, and we all see it. Sort of hard for most people to let people be wrong. I, however, just chuckle at your expense and let you walk the earth like the retard you are.
Anandtech states something completely different:
“From my day of testing, I’ve determined that the iPhone 4 performs much better than the 3GS in situations where signal is very low, at -113 dBm (1 bar). Previously, dropping this low all but guaranteed that calls would drop, fail to be placed, and data would no longer be transacted at all. I can honestly say that I’ve never held onto so many calls and data simultaneously on 1 bar at -113 dBm as I have with the iPhone 4, so it’s readily apparent that the new baseband hardware is much more sensitive compared to what was in the 3GS. The difference is that reception is massively better on the iPhone 4 in actual use.”
BTW, Anandtech did a way more exhaustive and technical test than Mossberg’s seat-of-the-pants reveiw.
So I guess more lies? Mossberg or Anandtech? The real answer seems to be that there are obviously so many variables to antenna analysis that a room full of PhD would have trouble grasping the problems.
So when someone makes some definitive statement about the state of an entire product line and the ethics of some CEO without knowing any real facts (other than their own questionable personal experience), it makes them, as AAPLguy states, a moron.
@More lies
Ignorant people are blissfully unaware of how truly stupid they are and consequently will go on living in ignorance.
So are we to dismiss anyone with claims if dropped calls. 3GS comparisons are worthless. I’m 3 phones in on my 3GS and hot payday. Works like a charm! But I had some crap. I buy a new one, they TRIED to give me a refurb 2 months later. Hope the white antenna is fixed. Do we need to provide screen shots with failed to make a call so you sensitive asswipes can stop assaulting people everytime they dare to speak of a faulty design. You need to stop using all of Steve’s pain meds and grow up. I have an iPhone 4. Problem exists. Problem exists on my Nokia E72. Just not as severe… But it exists. I am not brand loyal. I’m loyal to a version that works. I know why the antenna is on the bottom portion rather than the top. But I haven’t gone through ALL of Steve’s drugs that I will bitchup and sing praises like Steve will adopt me if I don’t say anything bad. You growup!
@moron lies
you’re waiting to exchange your IP4 for a white one because you’ve imagined they fixed the antenna?
You’re lying to yourself!
I’m not… But don’t crush my dreams man.
@ More lies
> that means they have fixed the antenna and I will soon be able to exchange my crippled one for one that works like it is suppose to
So you are either a moron for keeping a smart phone that cost you at least $199 to buy and at least $55 per month to own, when it is supposedly “crippled.” Or you are a moron for thinking people actually believe you when you say you own an iPhone 4.
Trolling by semi-intelligent people often annoys me. Trolling by incompetent fools just cracks me up. Thanks for the continuing laughs (no matter what you are calling yourself this time).
@more lies
Stop the press. “More lies” said the white iPhone 4 antenna will be redesigned. I’m going to believe him and wait til it comes out to buy one. I mean he did quote Mossberg. He’s got to know something I don’t. I don’t think he’s a whiney bitch. Okay maybe I do just a little.
@FutureMedia…return Sept 24th? How ya figure you’re gonna swing that?
@More lies…does it hurt to be that stupid?
@ more lies RE: “I will bitchup and sing praises like Steve will adopt me if I don’t say anything bad. You growup!”
LOL! that adoption reference cracked me up. I personally am a fervent Apple supporter (because they deserve it given the wonderful products they make for me that simply don’t have competition from any other tech gadget maker.. no matter how hard they try. It’s pretty amazing how caring about user interface (and customers) as a priority trumped the other bigwigs in the same field. User friendly finally became important apparently. Mac OS X finally has a chance to take over Windows market share if this trend continues.)
Regardless, I LOVED your comment it cracked me up lol! Kudos to you for the angry response to others it was classic. Even if you are off the mark with the rest of your text, the “adoption” snippet I copied from your comments above twas funny and made my smile muscles work a bit. thank you!
If others don’t see the humor take my pity.
Apple launches always new and heavy product, and i like all product of apple, because his features are to good and looking cool.
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