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“Apple customers who queued through wind, rain and their lunch breaks to snap up the new iPhone 4 were almost disappointed to learn their mobiles were not succumbing to the ‘death grip’ that caused signal problems and corporate embarrassment for Apple in the United States,” Singer reports.
Singer reports, “Like the fizzle after the Y2K bug in 2000, many Australian iPhone users have been left wondering what all the fuss was about.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “ninetimesoutoften” for the heads up.]
It is possible that Apple applied a moisture-repellent coating at the factory on new iPhone 4’s.
Such a coating would have been cheap and easy at the manufacturer level, and would have stopped nearly 100% of complaints.
(Apple is NOT stupid)
Once the porn industry get face time up and running in all these countries. I just
have one question and that is where I’d the death grip going to be?
Is the Aussie iPhone on a different frequency? That could explain it.
All the antennagate morons got their free kins and are gone now to browner pastures.
Think about it folks.. These are comments from actual iPhone 4 customers in Australia (you know… the people who actually paid for the product and use it). They are not very different from the actual U.S. iPhone 4 customers; most of them never complained about “antennagate” or the so-called “Death Grip.” 99% the “whining noises” came from the media who are motivated to be sensationalist, some lawyers, one politician, and others motivated to sell competing products.
Therefore, in terms of REAL customers, there is no difference. Well, except that Australia’s wireless networks may be somewhat less congested compared to San Francisco or New York.
It is down here actually. But it’s seems to be only really on the 32GB ones. My iPhone 4 does it, but my friends 16GB iPhone 4 didn’t do it. Having said that, it’s not a massive issue at all.
Same frequencies, better networks, more personal responsibility (less suing other people for one’s own lack of common sense).
Of course our networks are less congested, there’s three of them!
Similar population and topography as SF by the way
No death grip problem here in Canada…just another happy apple customer
I think your average Australian is under 300pounds.. Maybe that helps.
@Great…pull the phone out of your ass. There’s not enough room in there for that and your head.
@Maclouie…the antenna is at the top…and the entire right, and the bottom, and a small portion of the left.
The reason there is no problem in AU is because there was no problem to begin with. What part of only 0.55% of iP4 owners calling Apple about this “problem” doesn’t link up for you people?
Seems to be a correlation between lack of antennagate and lack of AT&T…
@ Spark… I think you mean New Zealand…
I have a new iPhone 4 – I live below a line of sight transmission antenna for my and all the other telcos here in Brissie. (Brisbane to you in the North)
I have had lousy to atrocious reception with every mobile phone that I have owned – never even one bar – to the point where I have friends and business associates ring me on my VoIP line or land line if they want to call me at home.
NOW – I have 3 – 4 -5 bars!!! Phuque!!!! This is great – magical – revolutionary!! And the vocal clarity of a call is beyond description.
Sure, I will switch to an almost ran piece of sh1t. When they pry this little wonder out of my cold dead grip!
Is the “death grip” shitt fixed? Don’t know.
But what I do know is that it seems that the stock manipulators won again… check it out….
And I believe that is the real reason for antennagate!
Pure and simple BS:
http://www.theonion.com/video/breaking-news-some-bullshit-happening-somewhere,16928/
Cheers…
Aussies are independent and practical folks. I’m glad to see that they have not been poisoned by the “death grip” FUD. Although there might have been a few exceptions due to flawed hardware, the primary issues were weak signal strength from AT&T and misreported signal strength by Apple.
This is an AT&T issue. AT&T dead zones = drop calls or extremely poor reception!!
I’ve got my iP4 yesterday and I’m not experiencing any antenna issues!
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The “fuss” was about people of the states being law-suit-happy! In the US, people will sue you for looking at them… Or shoot you.
I purchase iPhone 4 32GB version at Sydney Apple Store last Friday. I’m with Vodafone network. I tested the attenna issue in Sydney area and no signal drop. I tested in Mascot and yes their was a signal drop of 2 bars, from 3 bars to 1 bars. So I called Vodafone customer help desk, and I touched the lower left corner and the bar drops to 1 bar, and I was continue to make a call, and no signal drop and the voice of ther other end was very clear. So I tried again, this time I touched the lower left corner, and the bar drop to 1 bar, and I called Vodafone help desk again, and I was still able to make the call, and the voice of the other end was loud and clear. So no issue with Apple iPhone 4.
Well that is good to hear. I think there are certain variables that are at work. Different frequencies in usage, and also less users on the networks. (except Optus..they suck). Att has 3 times the entire population of Australia on there network and 10 times the land mass coverage than there Australian counterparts. I by no means like ATT but have an understanding of both Aussie and American Telcos. I worked for Vodafone before I moved back to the US and they were and still are the best network in Australia and only getting better.
As for the comments about being a sue happy country, yes we are but to your benefit since you seem to get everything last. By the time you get it all the kinks are worked out. Do I think apple has fixed it, absolutely !! they have too much money riding on this phone to see it fail. They also are only offering the free bumpers till September so one would assume that those fixed phones would be shipped to the US then. The Faulty Iphones would eventually be cycled back into ATT stock via repairs and insurance claims. I also think that Australia is too important of a market for them to flub this phone for, with android beating at the Aussie shores via HTC.
also America is no longer the fattest country we were eclipsed by who ?? ….. y’all in 2008 . I Don’t Blame ya so much good food there made me feel at home !!!
so enjoy your “death grip ” free iphones, land of golden soil and wealth for toil. ya deserve the best.!!!