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iPhone 4 News Roundup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-we-go-again dept.

We have a slew of iPhone 4-related stories this morning, so I'm lumping them together for easier consumption/ignoring, depending on your personal feelings on the subject. Here is a blog entry proclaiming that iOS 4 multitasking sucks and why. Here is a sketchy summary of privacy violations by Apple and AT&T — apparently they are reporting back jailbroken phones. Skunkpost has a story about the lines and sales of the new phone. But the big news of the morning is the reception problems that apparently only affect people who hold the phone in their left hands.

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  1. Re:Reception Issue - Hacked by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would be curious about the conductivity of certain coatings. I personally hate covers for phones, as they add bulk. As a person with nickel allergies, I have to coat belt buckles and the like with acrylic. I wonder if the same would help this antenna.

    Remember, we're dealing with an Apple product here. You have to be careful what you place around them because you don't want to mess up the Reality Distortion Field. Aside from voiding the warranty and causing brain cancer it can induce the user to frequent dark, unclean parts of the Internet and thus get your Apple Acolyte(TM) card revoked. Bad things all.

    A little Kool-Aid might do the trick, though.

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  2. We need to reorder our priorities by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Troll

    The f***'n phone doesn't even work and everybody's talking about the "walled garden".

  3. Re:Here's your roundup by devjj · · Score: 0, Troll

    I own an iPhone, but I'd vastly prefer the open system we all know is never going to happen. Guess people around here just assume that posting anything contrary to dogma must be intended to piss people off.

  4. Amazing by X.25 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What amazes me the most is reading comments on various sites, and realising that iPhone freaks think icon-grid is somehow invented by Apple, and they should sue Samsung/Google/whoever.

    What the fuck? These people are becoming worse than Microsoft Windows 3.11 zealots. Wow.

  5. Re:Here's your roundup by RocketRabbit · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only problem with your plan is that nobody else Really cares. And other phones all seem to suck one kind of ass or another.