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Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue
tekgoblin sends news of the latest iPhone 4 glitch being reported in user forums and elsewhere: the phone's proximity sensor seems not to be detecting nearby faces, as it is designed to do, in order to deactivate the screen during a call. The result is often unintended input. "On the iPhone 3GS, the proximity sensor was located to the left of the earpiece speaker. But that space on iPhone 4 is now occupied by the front-facing camera, and the proximity sensor is above the earpiece. What's not clear is whether the iPhone 4 screen's misbehavior is due to the new location of the sensor, or it's because Apple tweaked the sensor's responses in [some] way."
Um, not in the way that Apple does. If I e-mailed a CEO or support member of just about any other phone manufacturer other than Apple, I wouldn't get a reply like "Stop holding it that way", yes, I doubt I'd get a $5,000 check and free phones for life and instead get something like "Other people are having this issue, our tech team is working on a solution check back at XXX forum thread for the latest details". No other phone maker would insist that -their- way of doing things was so vastly superior than any other way and that they only had one way. Lets say I want a physical keyboard and want to stick with HTC Android phones, I could go with the MyTouch 3G Slide or the HTC Dream, I'm not going to get some stupid answer that keyboards are "obsolete" and software keyboards are so much better. Not every company has every single piece of hardware exactly how someone wants it, but they aren't going to limit themselves by thinking that its their way or nothing.
If I want a phone a certain way and know what I like, many companies are willing to cater to me and a few other like minded people, with Apple they don't even care because you don't want to do it the way that their CEO, who has been proven wrong many times, thinks you must do.
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