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iPhone 4 Reception Recall Ruckus Roundup
Readers today have been sending tons of stories about the iPhone 4, so here are a few of the highlights: Following the Consumers Reports announcement that the iPhone has antenna problems, Andy Patrizio asks if Apple can withstand the pressure to recall, while CNet estimates that a recall would cost them $1.5B. But that's just the latest on the iPhone 4 — the long running carrier exclusivity lawsuit rumors have been upgraded to Class Action status.
Design: Only an ignorant fool would put an external, metal antenna on a phone. Not only does nobody do this, nobody has ever done this in the history of mobile phones.
Ok Rosie.
Except that I had a number of mobile phones with external pull-up antennas, in the early days...
And the external antenna on the iPhone 4 means I get a lot better reception and data throughput than I did with the 3Gs.
It's pretty obvious there's an idiot here, but it's not Apple. It's all the people going on about a phone they have never even touched. The design is a good one, it provides real value - they simply need to coat the area right around the gap to prevent conducting, which happens in real life only occasionally at worst. I do not have a case, don't live in an area with a very strong signal, and I have yet to drop a call from this.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Do you realize how many people buy Apple products because they "simply work"? This one unreliable product has planted the seed of doubt.
Except that in real-world use it's not unreliable. It's been very reliable, more so than the older phones. So the people more on the fringe of tech will pretty much hardly even notice this kerfluffle and just keep buying what they like and works well.
If the iPhone 4 is seeing such huge problems why is there a 3-week backlog for new orders?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Wow the grammar nazis are trolling the summary. Dont you have anything better to do? (I left out some punctuation for you.. I know spotting typos and then ranting about it makes you happy.)
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
It's not only that cost. In 3 days Apple's stock has gone down a huge 5%
So what does in mean when in a few hours, it goes up $3.48?
Because the stock is up substantially today.
You picked a really bad day to complain about the stock it would seem.
It is nice that people panic when bad news comes out and let the rest of us have slightly better purchasing opportunities. But then people realize how insignificant the problems really are and how quickly people are buying the new phones, and the stock goes right back up again...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
wow, can i have some of that tasty kool aid that you're drinking (you low-life sack of shit.)
More Apple Hater maturity! Instantly, through your own verbiage, I come off about 100 IQ points higher than you.
I mean, who are people supposed to believe - someone who actually owns the phone for real, or a hater with a burning irrational hate of Apple that calls people "a sack of shit".
Sorry, "Low-life sack of shit". I didn't want to misquote you, people need to understand just how lacking in intelligence you really are and presenting the full quote helps.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Their products do simply work. We are just holding them wrong.
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
>>>No surprise it was bunk.
Yeah. We'll see if you're still saying that a year from now when the DOW has dropped back down to 7000 levels. I can hear it now, "Oh. That C64 dude was right. Well he's still an ass." ;-)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Is said friend trying to walk into a store and get one? They're spewing massive amounts of bullshit. Said coworker simply ordered it from the webpage, they said 5-7 days, it was there on the second.
Interesting, my friend was also ordering on the web and it said three weeks. But it seems they ship much faster than indicated.
You won't hear me complain. I will never own one due to the fatal signal issues. The "death grip", I see what you did there Steve, is my normal method of holding a phone.
No, it is not. Normal holding of the phone does not really affect the signal. You have to squeeze much harder than normal and kind of wrap the phone, to really have an effect. Although partially it's probably a function of how sweaty your hands are.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've not been able to replicate that result - you should read engadgets follow-up on the story showing people simply do not have that kind of problem in real use:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/yes-the-iphone-4-is-broken-no-the-iphone-4-is-not-broken/
It's a problem, but it's not serious if it almost never happens.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley