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“Apple announced Friday that it was ending its free bumper program in two weeks and that the antenna issue ‘was smaller than we originally thought,'” Moritz writes.
“So small, perhaps that it disappears with the arrival of the ‘fixed’ iPhones hitting the shelves soon,” Moritz writes. “But Apple isn’t saying anything about the so-called fix.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
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Reason 1: It’s not broken.
Reason 2: see reason 1.
Reason 3: see reason 2.
1. Hardware design fault
2. Hardware design fault
3. Hardware design fault
It’s funny, the antenna thing has only really been blown up in America. Nothing to see here…
Still has the best signal of any other phone out there….
Apple have less than 10% of the problems other phone manufacturers have but because they like to hate Apple they over egg it, I know of at least 6 people who have had nokia and other android based phone with problems with both reception and reliability, not a word is said, no outcry from the media, no explanation either !!
Coated metal. No skin contact.
Reason 1: The Terror Mosque in NYC has a new AT&T tower hidden in the minaret.
Reason 2: Steve Jobs will use his new ninja stars to take off any fingers blocking your reception.
Resason 3: Your mom says you never call anyway.
Actually thAts not true. My mom works in a hospital and she has a cheap motorrola and all the drs had different phones then they all switched to iPhones and they had problems getting signals in the hospital with the iPhone. But then again could have been move from verizon to AT&T. But then I can’t explain to them why others that work there with AT&T phones get a signal and their iPhones don’t.
Agree with post 1.
Not a problem.
An android user/fanboi at work could never get my signal to drop, yet still says I can’t get a signal anywhere.
Minor issue with a smaller number of very vocal users.
End of story.
After the Antennagate came out, I started looking at signal reception issue with other cellphones. It is in fact fascinating. I have an old Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone. When in zone with a lower-than-optimal signal, If you hold it with two fingers on the sides, you get good signal (four to five bars). Hold it normally, in your hand, wrapping it comfortably around the fone (you know, the way EVERYONE holds a phone), and signal drops down to a single bar. I was able to replicate this problem with my colleagues’ phones of all varieties: Nokias, Siemenses, LGs, Samsungs, Motorolas, Blackberries, HTCs… You give me a cellphone, I’ll show you bars dropping when you hold a phone certain way.
EVERY SINGLE CELLPHONE had bars drop. Which leads me to the following conclusion. Someone (RIM? Google? Nokia) had tried to swiftboat Apple with the Antennagate thing. They apparently failed, since it is still almost impossible to buy an iPhone 4 in most parts of the world (where it is actually offered).
@Petey:
You need to prove your point…because, frankly, it already has been debunked. Just look on youtube.
No hardware can escape the laws of physics.
Yawn, do we have to see more about this?
THE FACTS:
1) iPhone 4 has better overall reception and voice quality than any previous iPhone.
2) Some dropped calls were a fault in the proximity sensor not working right and disconnecting. This has been FIXED with a software update. (And when have you seen an Android phone fixed with a software update, btw?)
3) ALL — YES ALL — cell phones exhibit antenna sensitivity attenuation when held by hand, more or less, depending on where and how one holds the phone. (See all the cell phone videos Apple had on its website showing this fact on various phones, now on uTube.) This is a fact of life, it cannot be blamed on iPhone.
4) iPhone 4 has advanced, external antennas and originally shipped with an overly-sensitive bar display algorhythm (since FIXED by software update), both of which brought undue attention to changes in the number of bars showing on the handset when holding the phone without a case.
5) Any reception problems specific to individual phones (or any other reasons) were generously handled by Apple with full 30 day refunds or exchange at customer’s choice.
Two software FIXES do confirm that the iPhone is working even better now than when it originally shipped and the problem has basically vanished.
Add Apple’s free bumper to insulate sweaty hands from the antennas, which may or may not help in some cases and may only be a placebo in some situations, but whatever — and the phone is working great! OK?
Apple still can’t make enough phones, demand is outstripping supply — still!
Are we done with this now? Please…
“If you say it over and over regardless of whether or not it’s true it will stick” – Carl Rove (aka. Dick Cheney’s dough boy)
How much do we have to beat a dead horse? Steve Jobs said it was an industry issue, not unique to the iPhone alone. What’s the obsession with the issue that warrants people to think that Apple needs to address it anyway and fix it? Lets move on.
scott moritz is a hit whore for rimm. If you want to be moritzed just read his inane dribble. He has absolutely no credibility in the tech world.
I live on the border of Canada and I get deathgrip dropped calls about once every ten days. I hate using a case, so I’m just dealing with it, but the deathgrip IS real for some of us.
“A lie told often enough becomes truth” – Vladimir Lenin.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” – Joseph Goebbels
“There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.” – William James (1842-1910) The father of modern Psychology
Yup, no antenna problem here. I don’t know what they are fixing. Perhaps Moritz is assuming they are being fixed. Lots of writing for nothing.
I love my iPhone. Frankly, the reception of my iPhone4 was not as good as my 3G, AND it dramatically improved with the bumper.
I think we can stop kidding ourselves- the issue was not imaginary.
Yes, every handheld device with an antenna will be affected adversely if held so that your hand is blocking the signal or detuning the antenna. The thing is, my iPhone 3GS (all 3 of them) would hold a signal here at my house for call after call after call, when held in a normal manner. All 3 of my iPhone 4s would not. So until Apple puts the antenna where the 3GS has its antenna, or finds some other method so I can use the phone at my house, it will forever stay at the Apple store. It may work for you but it sure doesn’t for me.
I think those are 2G phones. Just simply turn off 3G on your iphone, you can get very good signal with ATT 2G network.
Any writer still talking about the iPhone 4 antenna is obviously a moron.
Sitting side by side in “field test” mode.
3GS -87 (mine)
4 -91 (wife’s)
Every time the iphone 4 has a higher number. I am fairly that equates to worse reception. They are both running iOS 4.1. They are both on ATT network. I don’t get it. The reason we upgraded my wife’s phone was for the better reception (she travels more than I do). It drops way more calls than mine. We both still love our iphones, but the problem is real for us.
BTW, my signal strength here at my house, when sitting on the table in front of me, is -92dbm. When picked up and held as in talking on it, it drops to -99dbm. Unfortunately the app used to make these measurements wasn’t available at the time I had my iPhone 4s, but if my iP4 had the same attenuation problem as what I’ve seen on the net somewhere (like here on MDN) it would have dropped to -112dbm. So close to dropout that one wrong move and I’d be disconnected. (And proven by experience.)
The Media is just waiting for an Apple screw-up! Real or NOT