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iOS Update May Tackle iPhone 4's Antenna Problems
DJRumpy was one of several readers to point out rumors that Apple will soon be deploying an update to iOS 4 to combat the iPhone 4 antenna problems we discussed last week. This could be good news for users of the 1.7 million iPhone 4s purchased during the first three days of its release. (And no, Daily Mail, Steve didn't announce a recall, though there's speculation that this problem could be a boon for Android.) An anonymous reader notes an analysis of a teardown of the phone, which found that its parts collectively cost about $188, with the most expensive part — the LCD screen — costing $28.50 by itself. In other Apple news, Germany has demanded that the company "immediately make clear" what data it collects from customers, and what use it makes of that data (perhaps spurred by Google's Wi-Fi sniffing debacle).
What? Problem with the antenna? A pure hardware problem that will be solved with the next iOS update, i.e. software problem??? Here i am lost, since when we entered the era of quantum phones?
Interested to know how a software update will fix an human-caused short circuit.
It's not a short circuit, it's just the fact that the user's hand is physically covering the antenna, and thus interfering with it...
I believe their plan was to send intense pulses down the antenna periodically, felt by the user as a small electric shock, so they won't hold the phone that way any more.
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Funny, cause my Motorola Droid has a plastic case and my skin never comes in contact with the antena.
That's because that is irrelevant. My old Nokia 3310 used to drop a bar of reception when I picked it up. Of course it didn't drop calls because I was on a decent network.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
And you know all this... how?