Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 5, 2010 @01:59PM from the not-the-face-time-we-had-in-mind dept.

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."

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Re:iPhone 5 ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-05 14:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Will Apple offer a free
lol good one
Users have got it wrong... by bogaboga · 2010-07-05 14:30 · Score: 4, Funny

...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.
Re:I've experienced this... very annoying. by quickOnTheUptake · 2010-07-05 15:27 · Score: 5, Funny

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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