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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."
...sounds like most of these problems would have been figured out if people had tested them in the field for a few weeks before sending them to the factory
They tried to test them in the field but that guy forgot his in a bar and, well, you know the rest of the story.
"Where's my other sock?" - A. Einstein
Will Apple offer a free
lol good one
...and here's why: -
When it come to the iPhone, folks at Apple haven't told us how not to hold it wrong...so let's wait for Steve's instructions.
My other workaround is just pressing the home key and opening Notes or some other simple, quiet app; that way it doesn't really matter if any keys are pressed.
And people say Linux isn't ready for mass-consumption.
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My contract is up in December. I'll wait until then to update because they'll have these issues resolved.
Or they will have trained their fanbois sufficiently to just hold the phone differently...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Now let's wait for the Apple fanboys who will see no wrong on Apple's part.
I don't see anyone saying that. On the contrary, just about every Apple story seems to be full of a ton of anger and vitriol, regardless of what the story is about. Maybe I don't see enough modded-down comments? Regardless, I'm sure that for every emotional fanboy there is at least one irrational hater and 50 million others who could hardly care less.
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Well it used to be "Think Different", now it can be "Hold Different"!
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