Posted on 03/14/2011 4:10:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
It seems that some iPad 2 devices are suffering from similar issues to early iPhone 4 devices.
It seems that some iPad 2 devices are suffering from similar issues to early iPhone 4 devices.
The problem is light leaking from around the bezel and into the display area, causing a patchy display.
Here’s is a photo posted by NiqueXyZ on the Apple support forum which shows what the problem looks like:
Almost all displays suffer from some level of light leakage, but there are acceptable levels, and unacceptable levels, and the image above certainly falls into the unacceptable category.
Another problem, which may or may not be linked to the light leak, is yellow patches on the screen.
Similar problems were reported with the iPhone 4 shortly after its release, and Apple put this down to the fact that the screen bonding material hadn’t dried out yet.
No word from Apple yet on the cause of this problem.
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Looks like the owners are gonna have to wear these. At least light leakage is better than heavy leakage.
Rush to market ... screw your customers. Kinda like Windows Vista, but on a larger scale.
Note that the early problems in the iPhone4 essentially went away after a two-three week period of such reports as the adhesives that adhered the layers of the screen together cured, or set, with time. After that, no more reports were heard about. Apple replaced the most egregious examples with no questions asked. . . although most “cured” themselves as the adhesives cured. Most of these iPad2s were manufactured after February 15, as the battery in them show that manufacturing date on their purchased sample, according to iFixit’s tear down, so some are bound to be fairly new screens. There is no data as to the percentage of screens showing this problem.
Or not...
Will downloading the latest Kotex help?
And light is a form of radiation.
Quick, somebody call Shep and get him on the scene!!!
No check form Apple for you this week. :)
And Al Gore is on the Apple board. Not good.
Just put some black electrical tape over the light source.
I want to say “bad Apple” for the quality control, but this is a few examples out of the over 300,000 that have been sold so far.
Apple doesn’t rush to market. If they did, then the white iPhone 4 would have been out last year. Instead, they delayed it until quality control issues could be resolved.
Several others on the website where the post originate have pointed out the over exposure of the photo... look how the menu bar at the top is glared out... they had to do that to get the very faint light leakage to even show. It's not a major problem and others on the Apple site have noted they had the problem with their new iPhone4s and it went away in about a week with the curing of the adhesives on the screen.
Fox News is unwatchable...nothing but anti-nuke hysteria.
Ed
Whatever it takes to grab an audience.
Rush to market, possibly, although more likely just a manufacturing oversight in some batches. Apple has little reason to rush anything to market -- they're a year ahead of everybody else. I suspect a manufacturing process problem, which will be corrected in under a month.
Excuse me, but comparing this to Vista and saying it's a bigger error, is grossly inaccurate. This iPad problem is most likely a single- or double-factor error, and easily corrected. Vista had hundreds of major design errors, and scores of architectural and UI flaws. And they were not easily corrected, or Microsoft would have done so immediately. Instead they took a few years, and came out with Win7, a much better operating system.
No comparison.
Actually - the “yellowish” color DID disappear with the iPhone 4’s that were so-affected, so I guess Apple was telling the truth. They came out, said what the problem was, and a short time of use showed them to be correct.
If that is “screwing your customers”, then gee - I would hate to sell you anything!
Now - with the iPad 2 - the yellowing is quite likely the same “issue”. Light leakage... that is yet to be seen, but Apple’s recent past would indicate that, if there is a real problem, it will be addressed.
Whatever it takes to grab an audience.anti-nuke hysteria.
That is the fundamental bias of journalism in general. Claiming to be "objective" is just another thing they do to try "to grab an audience."
Kinda like burning the bridge at both ends, Obama wants to kill coal supplied powerplants and the MSM wants to kill nuclear plants.
The wind turbines won’t work in the cold and the environwienies won’t let the dams be built. China controls the production of solar panels and finally nobody wants to drill for gas.
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