Apple finds iPhone 4 signal bars misleading, hiding poor signal

02 July, 2010
Apple just issued their official statement on the non-existent iPhone 4 reception issues. What iPhone 4 users are experiencing when they grip the lower left corner is just their real signal, poor as it seems...

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  • i-phFlaw4ed birth
  • PTU
  • 03 Jul 2010

Rumored 0S4.O1 fix's

-Antenna fix
-MicroSD support -(finally)
-FaceSpace via 3G (why was it missing in the first place?)
-WiFi tweaks -(no need to ask your mates to switch theirs off now)

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    • Anonymous
    • 2A3
    • 03 Jul 2010

    AN Application has been Lauch at apple store,called Drop Call Alert,

    it will say:
    Please say farewell to your Correspondence Now,your call will be drop after 5 seconds because you hold the phone in a Wrong WAY,Thank You".

    1.7 Million downloads had been recorded in jaz an Hour..hahahahaha

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      • Anonymous
      • 2A3
      • 03 Jul 2010

      [deleted post]me?jelous?hahahaha..what so special bout iphone 4?
      1.facetime?
      2.retina display(with yellow spots)?
      3.Natural way of ending a call?no need to push buttons?
      4.Need a lamest software to transfer songs and movies
      5.Cant view online flash contents on the internet?

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        • Daniel Mifsud
        • p7J
        • 03 Jul 2010

        That's a laugh, they are just fixing the bars not the reception itself, its still wont' help out with reception.

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          • Anonymous
          • t7A
          • 03 Jul 2010

          Anonymous, 03 Jul 2010You boy don't get the point.jealousy is a sence which cryin... morewho are you anyway? well people back to the topic please...

          this how apple treat you if you were an iphone 4 flaw design in human character....

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            • 2A3
            • 03 Jul 2010

            apple can do a recall for iphone 4..they will spend millions if doing so..

            what they can do is..jaz update the OS and make some tweak about the OS and making signal indicator having a stationary state even your signal is dropping..

            or an Application that will jaz alerts you when you having on going cinverstion saying:

            "Please say farewell to your Correspondence Now,your call will be drop after 5 seconds because you hold the phone in a Wrong WAY,Thank You"..LOL

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              • Anonymous
              • PEd
              • 03 Jul 2010

              [deleted post]Is not the Iphone claimed to be the slimmest smartphone on the market? But wait, to make calls you need to put a case?, doesn't that give it the same thickness of like a Galaxy S?? Ifans are crazy to think that all phones have this call dropping issue, this is a complete lie by Apple, I dare anyone to show me a you tube video of a Nokia phone going form full bars to Offline when held in a particular way..

              Also about dropping the phone, those drops are not related to each other and are separate...
              What it means is that if dropped, there is a 2/4 chance that the Iphone will turn off, and 1/4 chance that the glass will shatter completely..
              Try dropping a N900 or 5800 on to concrete from head height(not hip height), I am sure they will remain ON save for a few scratches... My old Nokia fell 3 floors down a lift shaft, once I pop the battery back in, it remind functioning perfectly..

              My Nokia 5800 video calling works smoothly with any other 3G phone and is not limited to another 5800. It can work over 3.5G and not Wifi either plus its definitely out of the box....
              In fact, I can even take Skype video calls over 3.5G or Wifi with my 5800, can you do that.

              You are boasting about not wanting a computer to load apps?? What about music and videos, cannot say the same about that can you.. Pathetic, you need to use one computer and that crappy Itunes to load even a simple music file onto you Iphone...

              You think we comment here because we are jalousie about you crappy Iphone?? Ha Ha, I would rather have a S40 device than an Iphone... To understand the reason we comment here, read a Nokia Article or the N8 opinions forum.. See all the Ifans there boasting about their iPhone and insulting everybody...
              ...This is payback!

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                • Anonymous
                • 2A3
                • 03 Jul 2010

                i admire Nokia most than this pathetic Apple company..

                Nokia has the decency to admit the are wrong in making the N97 but apple..they jaz blamed the customers holding the phone in the wrong way and blaming their precious iOS that giving false signal strength..

                A great Company should think what they can do to ease customers lives not the other way around..

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                  • Anonymous
                  • UD}
                  • 03 Jul 2010

                  bisdak, 03 Jul 2010in the following Months 1. 1.7 million Iphone Users(most... moreI think it's 2 million now.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 2A3
                    • 03 Jul 2010

                    iphone 4 is the most ridiculed handset of all time..look at mobile forums and reviews..comments say it all...

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                      • uCw
                      • 03 Jul 2010

                      IOSIF , 03 Jul 2010Apparently APPLE is not preparing an upgrade for their phon... moreThe only proper and possible cure is, to redesign the set, well shove the antena inside the casing. Investment will be huge to manufacture all the units to replace. Frames and casings will be reinvented (in Apple's language) and massive recall for massive exchange. Add production time and investment in entire process and you will get yourself an iPhone 4GS, (with Signal) as a friend said earlier here.

                      I don't think Apple is going to run for exchange units, unless they will find a coating solution to cover the antena without using any material.

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                        • bisdak
                        • 2A3
                        • 03 Jul 2010

                        in the following Months

                        1. 1.7 million Iphone Users(mostly Americans) will miss important calls due to iphone antenna Flaw,showing full bar signal indicators even w/o true carriers receptions,delayed messages and drop calls

                        2. 1.7 Million iphone users will have fingers problem coz they are too mindful how the will hold iphone 4 in the right way.

                        3.1.7 million iphone4 will looked like pe*ises wrap in a thin sheet of rubber coz it might lose some signal when hold accidentally in a wrong way(not very aesthetic to look at)

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                          • jy0
                          • 03 Jul 2010

                          Apparently APPLE is not preparing an upgrade for their phone, which is faulty anyway, but one for our common sense which refuses to accept the poor excuses they are spelling out for this glitch.
                          Shame on you as you should have the dignity to respect the millions affected by the IPHONE4HYPE and deposited USD1000+ for your golden potato.

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                            • uCw
                            • 03 Jul 2010

                            Get a clue, 03 Jul 2010Are you iPhone4 users really that gullible? I am a grown... more"The egg on Jobs' face is truly a welcome sight, after that geezer bragged up & down on how "revolutionary" his aerial antenna design truly is. I guess if you count rendering a mobile phone entirely useless as "revolutionary", then he succeeded...& then some...LMAO"

                            Your entire post is classic and worth re-reading, yet you said it true and said it all very well.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • UD}
                              • 03 Jul 2010

                              Killersmith, 03 Jul 2010And even that will turn out to be faulty, "dont paste ... moreApple's taking pre-orders now. LoL.

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                                • m4R
                                • 03 Jul 2010

                                damn its right, people, apple shi**ting on your heads again, job doesnt care a bit about you, users. what he think is how to sell same thing, what other companies invented and used on their devices ages ago :) video call, copy paste and other features is been used by other companies, before even first iphone was released :D probably what he think about this signal error is "damn we failed with antenna, who cares?, people are so stupid what we gonna tell some nonsense story and everybody will be happy" :) open your eyes mates stop buying overpriced crap from apple :)

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 03 Jul 2010

                                  Anonymous, 03 Jul 2010You boy don't get the point.jealousy is a sence which cryin... moreWell, you can't blame that guy being so defensive.
                                  Holding a phone has never an issue before until Iphone 4 came along. Call it revolutionary technology. Like Facetime.

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                                    • IAu
                                    • 03 Jul 2010

                                    Are you iPhone4 users really that gullible?

                                    I am a grown ass man, & I will not have anyone dictate how I have to hold my device to gain full telephony usability.

                                    This is the absolute first time since the mobile phone's inception, that requires users to hold it in special fashion to avoid calls from being dropped. Even the Motorola StarTac, that used RF antennas in its infancy, still manged to do what a mobile is meant to do....make & take calls, & despite the fact that it is 15 years older than the iPhone4. The egg on Jobs' face is truly a welcome sight, after that geezer bragged up & down on how "revolutionary" his aerial antenna design truly is. I guess if you count rendering a mobile phone entirely useless as "revolutionary", then he succeeded...& then some...LMAO

                                    Those cheezy, over-priced pieces of silicone are arguably the most hilarious "fix" I have ever witnessed. If you really believe that a 2mm thick piece of rubber will actually prevent your device that is comprised of glass from breaking into 20 pieces....then you deserve every amount of ridicule & humiliation you get.

                                    Stop being such as pushover. I went to the AT&T store yesterday to actually try the iPhone4, as I am eligible for a $199.00 upgrade, & all I can say after actually holding the device & witnessing the bars drop like the stock market crash of 1929, I will happily buy this iPhone4, & sell it to anyone of you myopic, Apple apologists for a $500.00+ profit.

                                    As an American, I am ashamed to have Steve Jobs, & Apple Inc. a part of the American economic system.

                                    Take your Billions of dollars..Mr Jobs, & try to buy some dignity.

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                                      • danee
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                                      • 03 Jul 2010

                                      I am really dissapointed with Apple......

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                                        • uCw
                                        • 03 Jul 2010

                                        All right, because many of you mindl-ess i-Sheeps doesn't go on other places so I will bring some updates to your doorsteps, afterall you like easy things.

                                        If this is not a problem then why there are Jobs (not Steve Jobs) opening at Apple specially for Antenna engineers?

                                        Apple said it is "missed calculation" so how great their in-house developers are that they miss-calculate something this important? Seems they were already faking the signals and get caught because of Antenna issue.

                                        And if you are one who still trying to learn to hold iPhone the right way, there are confirmed reports with the ^powerful^ camera too, with its white balance "calculations".

                                        Not to mention the glass is not as good as original Gorilla Glass, more like a monkey glass for monkeys.

                                        People are also complaining their messengers are logging out when they "multitask". H-ell it is not even multitask, Apple is just giving bad image to all good technologies to claim their outdated discoveries are the best.

                                        A Total Fr-aud Company, A total fr-aud product.