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Why iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Is the Lamest Scandal Ever
Minyanville ^ | 7/14/2010 | By Michael Comeau

Posted on 07/14/2010 8:09:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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1 posted on 07/14/2010 8:09:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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A computer tech guy here at the U of C just upgraded his iPhone to the new one. He said the so-called “death grip” isn’t an issue. He’s already put it in a plastic case and said that he could duplicate the “problem” with his older iPhone. He’s very happy with it.


2 posted on 07/14/2010 8:16:02 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 50mm; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ...
Where are the lines of disgruntled iPhone 4 customers returning their defective phones? PING!

Instead, they are on backorder. Everywhere!

Please don't feed the anti-Apple Trolls,
it just encourages them!


Apple iPhone 4 Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

3 posted on 07/14/2010 8:17:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

Agreed.


4 posted on 07/14/2010 8:19:23 PM PDT by lonestar67 ("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
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To: Swordmaker
Hey, whatever takes the attention off Obama's murder of 1/3rd of the seas and the entire planetary economy...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

5 posted on 07/14/2010 8:22:33 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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6 posted on 07/14/2010 8:28:21 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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I’ve come to the conclusion that this antenna issue is somewhat overblown. Is there a de-tuning effect? Sure. Is there some reduction of RF strength when you grab an antenna? Duh, of course. Unlike most of the people shooting off their mouths about this, I’ve taken (and suffered through) “Fields and Waves” in electrical engineering. Wrap your hand around any 1.8Ghz antenna (whether you contact the metal or not) and you’ll reduce the efficacy of the antenna. Put the antenna between the user’s hand and his skull full of wet mush and the problem becomes worse, not better. Yet we all seem to be making calls and shoving a whole lot of data to and fro on these stupid phones.

But that’s not the reason why it is likely that I won’t go with an iPhone. It is the network issue (and the data plans on the networks) that will likely push me to the Droid platform on Verizon.

First, there’s the coverage issue: AT&T’s network basically sucks in the rural west. There, I said it. Someone had to do it, so I did.

What I’d like is an iPhone on Verizon, but that appears to not be in the cards soon enough to lock down an unlimited data contract with Verizon before they milk the difference in networks as much as they can with the Droid X release.

Unless some huge change happens by the first week of August, I might well go with the VZ/Droid combo to lock in the unlimited data plan for two years. I’ve looked at the Droid programming environment and it is pretty good - maybe not as much to my liking as the iPhone, but I can live with it.

After looking seriously at the Droid in the last week, I really have to say that Apple better get their story straight and get this issue dealt with and off the table. From what I see, the smartphone market is going to come down to two platforms - the iPhone and the Droid, and it will be a steel cage deathmatch.

I now believe this enough that when RIMM next pops up, I’m probably going to initiate a long-term short position on the stock. I see nothing out of Blackberry that looks like they have a plan to respond to the iPhone & Droid. They’ve got only a few months to salvage their future, and the window is going to close by the end of the year at the rate things are progressing.


7 posted on 07/14/2010 8:33:17 PM PDT by NVDave
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8 posted on 07/14/2010 8:34:27 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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I’m just playing devil’s advocate here, but who cares about how well the iPhone 4 performs in an isolation chamber? I don’t make phone calls from my isolation chamber. No, I only use my isolation chamber to breathe in pure oxygen and protect myself from germs.

The guy sounds like a tobacco company lawyer.

9 posted on 07/14/2010 8:38:18 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Swordmaker

They can’t have it back!

- Posted on my iPhone 4


10 posted on 07/14/2010 8:38:59 PM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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My nephew dumped his iphone for a Sprint 4g after Apple gave him a hard time over an iphone he bought for his daughter. Seems to me Apple is getting too arrogant. My husband got an iphone last year, and after about 2 mths, it wouldn’t hold a charge, so, he took in to Apple and they told him he must have gotten it wet, which he hadn’t, they wouldn’t stand by their phone and he ended up buying a new one. Second one had problems, so back to Apple he went. They replaced it, but he still had problems with the third one, so he went online and figured why it would not charge properly.
I have the more expensive model and have not had problems with it until now when it doesn’t always want to charge properly when I use the car charger, but his has been the cheaper model which has been problematic.


11 posted on 07/14/2010 8:44:34 PM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: Swordmaker

Sorry but no Bravo TV fashion accessories for me. Apple represents the triumph of style over substance and I am against that pop culture trend.


12 posted on 07/14/2010 8:50:39 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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Cancelled my upgrade for 2 of them till everything washes out. Actually cancelled only 1 of the two, mine a couple weeks ago, Clint Jr tried to cancel his Monday after the CR article came out and they wouldn’t let him online. He has to return it to the Apple store when he gets it. I don’t understand how they fix a hardware problem with a software upgrade in the future. Waiting to see.

Curious though, reading FR on my 3G was awful resolution, how is it with the iP4 display?


13 posted on 07/14/2010 8:54:53 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (RIP Bahbah. Did you plug the damn hole yet daddy? Palin/Cheney 2012)
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To: Swordmaker
tell it to Consumer Reports...
14 posted on 07/14/2010 8:55:56 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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The iPhone 4 is suffering from a minor technical problem that's been completely blown out of proportion by the media.

Losing signal and dropping a call if your palm makes contact with the left lower edge of the phone isn't a minor technical problem. Yes, a case solves the problem but why does Apple expect consumers to pay for this fix? The iPhone 4 is a very nice device - with the case fix - but Apple's deny-deny-deny nonsense is only harming their reputation.
15 posted on 07/14/2010 8:56:35 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Sorry but no Bravo TV fashion accessories for me. Apple represents the triumph of style over substance and I am against that pop culture trend.

Style over substance? If that's so, why did Consumers Reports, even though they gave it a "Do not buy" recommendation over the antenna issue, also rate it as the best smart phone on the market? They were joined in that judgement by CNET, Anandtech, Endgadget, the Wall Street Journal, and a host of other reviewers who had hands on time with the iPhone 4. None of those reviews were made by their "style" editors.

Could it be they were overwhelmed and seduced by all that style? Or do you think, perhaps, it was the fact that the iPhone 4 offered more substance than the competition?

16 posted on 07/14/2010 9:27:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: tacticalogic

That was a quip about Michael Jackson and his isolation chamber he used to sleep in for those reasons stated. It was a joke. LOL


17 posted on 07/14/2010 9:29:31 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)
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To: Swordmaker

From a fanboys frantic typing to Gods ear...


18 posted on 07/14/2010 9:30:49 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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Is the car charger an Apple branded or certified iPod/iPhone accessory?

Sometimes cheap knock-off accessories don’t always work quite the way you expect, and they can even mess with the battery, charging, and other functions.


19 posted on 07/14/2010 9:44:18 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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My 3rd gen iPhone works great and I have a case for it (actually, I have a few) and when I upgrade to a 4th gen iPhone, that too will get a case.

Who said “Style over substance?”

The iPhone is a great device and has numerous functions and a phone is one of the least of them.


20 posted on 07/14/2010 9:44:25 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (David Horowitz: "The War on Sarah Palin Really is a War on Conservatives.")
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