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“Amongst those we know who have had’em for a day or two and who pay an nearly obsessive amount of detail to stuff like this, however, it’s pretty much unanimous: these early units seem to be having issues,” Kumparak reports. “The signal on one of the two units we received is all over the board, dipping from full signal down to nearly none whilst sitting in the same spot (and no, we’re not holding it wrong).”
Kumparak reports, “Could it just be the early units? Perhaps. Can it be fixed with a software patch? Hopefully! We’ll keep digging and let you know what we find out…”
Full article here.
Chris Ziegler reports for Engadget, “Signal strength was a major issue for all four Engadget editors who’ve been able to spend time with four different Droid 2s in different parts of the country this week. Symptoms include a wildly fluctuating meter while the phone’s sitting still, weak or no reception in places where you’re usually fine on Verizon, and a complete lack of data service (which was actually how we noticed the problem the first time).”
“To see our Droid 2’s data indicator flip-flop from EV-DO to 1xRTT and then disappear entirely was really alarming. We’re hoping this is something Motorola can fix with a software update alone, because it was nearly a showstopper for us,” Ziegler reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Smirk.
We await the Chuck Schumer’s open letter to Motorola’s half-CEOs Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha with bated breath.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Robert S.” for the heads up.]
Now, this is what I call schadenfreud!!!!!
How will Leo LaPorte spin this one?
“Schaden, meet Freude. Freude, Schaden.”
Has anyone told Consumer Reports about this?
Motorola press conference announcement in 5… 4… 3… 2…
Warm up the slide-show projector…
Get those “Press” invitations in the mail…
@Bongo
Apple did the same amount of advertisement Motorola did. If the press overhyped it, well, they do it on purpose so they can cash on “antennagate”.
Even if it were not the case, you would be still wrong, Troll. Moto, HTC, Nokia and RIM took free shots at Apple, even though the Nexus One had worse issues, Nokia and RIM write warnings on their manuals to avoid “holding it wrong” and, at last, Motorola was found guilty of hypocrisy as well.
MW: “suddenly”. Suddenly those Motorola ads got way funnier.
@Bongo,
Troll. Avoid.
You can just BET that Steve Jobs and his legions of zombie fanbois are responsible for this!
Yes, indeed, let’s see how the press interprets this. My money is on it being treated as a non-issue.
Schadenfreude, indeed!
Perhaps it’s got a cold? Moborola groig
So… now it’s a problem?
It wasn’t a problem with iPhone4 – but now it is?
Pathetic – even for Mac Lemmings.
Can someone please get to Chuck Schumer and ask where his open letter to the Motorola CEO is.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!!
HAHAHAHA.. now I will go troll the Android boards!
loosing or losing, you be the judge.
@Bongo
Common sense has very little to do with the bulk of the discussion (mostly sound bites and name calling) that occurs in this forum.
PcGuy:
What on Earth are you talking about ???
Not a single person here was screaming about this being a problem (mind you, hardly anyone here has a Droid to begin with). All they were saying was how the shoe is now on the other foot, how what goes around, comes around, how a few weeks ago, Motorola was taking out full-page newspaper ads saying that you can hold their phones any way you want and they hold on to the full signal with clear connections, only to have apparently same (if not worse) problems with their devices.
Essentially, everyone seems to be relishing in Shadenfreude, and they have no reason to hold back.
Deus ex:
Wouldn’t your joke have worked even better if you had reversed it:
“Freude, meet Shaden. Shaden, Freude.”
…?
Bongo
You do know you proved you are in that “idiot” group, don’t you?
@ Tom:
Excellent point!! Where’s Chuck Schumer’s open letter???
@Predrag
You could be right, but I try to shoot from the hip. Here’s why.
clearly, These aren’t the Droids you’re looking for!
How am I a troll, people? Because I understand how media/advertising/hype works, both for good and bad? And how exactly did I prove I’m an idiot, HughB? Because you said so.
All I’m saying is you need to realize Apple is far and away the media’s favorite tech company to talk about. If a new product is released, you’re going to hear about it and all its amazing features. If there’s a problem, you’re also going to hear about it (and it was a problem, overblown or not). Not everyone is out to get Apple.
On this board, troll=anyone with common sense with the ability to express individual thoughts and opinions, without being clouded by Apple bias.
@bongo
You said: media/advertising/hype works, both for good and bad?
Mostly bad dude, mostly bad.
Obviously, every mobile phone with an antenna somewhere in the case is going to have attenuation if you intentionally hold it in a way that causes the radio waves to be absorbed by the tissue in your hand and fingers. “Antennagate” is turning into an advantage for Apple, because while Apple continues to sell every iPhone 4 it makes (based on the merits of the product), every new competing product will now be scrutinized for “reception issues.” And every one of them with have such issues, unless the design goes “old school” and uses an antenna that extends out of the case (beyond the hand and fingers).
However, this case seems different. With the iPhone 4, most REAL customers were not having performance issues or complaining about reception problems in actual use. Most of the “noise” was coming from the media, marketing for competing products (and their fanboys), lawyers, and one politician, all of whom had their own motivations to be Apple detractors. Most reviewers noted that it did not drop calls, even if they saw a drop in “bars” on the screen. Where the signal was strong, users could not even reproduce the problem no matter how ridiculously they held the iPhone 4.
The reports for Droid 2 describe actual performance issues including problems were the signal should be strong. The AppleInsider article even says, “With Droid 2, users who are experiencing the problem report that it happens even while sitting idle and ‘without holding it wrong.'”
And all this additional scrutiny now, because the Apple detractors spent so much effort trying (and failing) to derail iPhone 4. I’m loving it…
Do you loose a signal while standing perfectly still? Droid does.
someone else has copied the iPhone 4 then