grit
an ugly force for good
I'd go fucking spare at them if they tried to charge for the cover to fix that problem.
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I'd go fucking spare at them if they tried to charge for the cover to fix that problem.
maldwyn
What?
There were lots of people buying them though. I think I was lucky getting the assistant I got, after hearing me whine for two minutes he put it through the till as a credit. Didn't ask to see my phone or a receipt.
WWWeed
Bandwidth Bandit
Too right! It looks like this reception problem is quite bad!
Look at this video my mate made:
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
Mine's nowhere near as bad as that. I can't get it to do it again now.
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hiraethified
That's pretty dramatically shit.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
You have a 3GS?
Would like to see that piece, but can't find it.
The CiF lot are getting increasingly very pissed off with the paper's absolute silence/refusal on disclosing the exact nature of the love in with Apple.
WWWeed
Bandwidth Bandit
It seems to effect all iphone 4s
the antennae are not being blocked by a mass of flesh and bone (head/hand) - it's just a small electrically conductive object that is connecting the two antennae segments together. And when you have a sweaty hand holding the phone in that area I'm pretty sure it will do a fairly passable impression of an electrical conductor.
The head and hands do block the radio signals on all phones, this is true, however the iPhone 4 is the only one designed with the metal aerials on the outside. The bluster from Apple about hands blocking the signal is pure smoke screen - it's not the problem, the design is the problem.
However some lacquer on the exterior of the antennae would solve the problem - nail varnish would also do the job for those already with an iPhone 4 - in which case this problem should be addressed as a manufacturing flaw/defect.
Just look at this youtube video where this guy demonstratives this issue with a key:
This guy reckons he has tried it on half a dosen handsets and they all have this problem........
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
my boss keeps sending me anti andriod stories*
but then again he does own apple shares
* ok not quite but there is an agenda there
but then again he does own apple shares
* ok not quite but there is an agenda there
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
Mine does do it, see earlier in the thread, just I couldn't get it to do it last night. And even when it does do it, it's making no difference to my 3g connection speed or call quality.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
i upgraded and i really like the folders things.
Two of my apps just won't work though but they were shit apps anyway so i replaced the crappy ITV World Cup one with SSN and I never listened to XFM much anyway.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
So far only two apps aren't working but updates will sort that I reckon. iOS4 runs very nicely on my 3GS...
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I've had the folders thing, but better, for ages 'cos I jailbroke my phone.
The only feature that jailbreaking hasn't offered (but better) for time is unified inbox. But then I want to keep work and personal separate anyway.
maldwyn
What?
That was posted on a fake Steve Jobs Twitter account.
Apple are still refusing to address the issue.
dogmatique
merde alors
They've updated the ITV app to work with os4 now.
dogmatique
merde alors
iTOLD YOU SO
"We have no commercial arrangement with Apple other than as a registered app developer like many others." So a spokeswoman for the Guarniad assured the Eye a fortnight ago, when we asked about the paper's endless column inches devoted to the iPad and the prominent use of its website in Apple's own billboard advertising campaign for the new gadget.
Curious then, that just days after we were told this, the Guardian's director of consumer media Adam Freeman invited all editorial staff to "an informal update on recent marketing activity across the Guardian and Observer" at which he primised to fill them in on how "over recent months we have seen increased marketing activity during the election, in partnership with Apple and Nike, and of course our own campaign in preparation for the World Cup."
Good job my copytyping skills are up to scratch! You're welcome.
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hiraethified
I had a play with an iPhone 4 over the weekend.
I like the redesign a lot (although it curiously makes it feel a bit chunkier in the hand than the 3GS) and the new screen was very nice - but nowhere near nice as I was expecting. Maybe that's because I've got used to the HTC Desire's screen?
The camera was a huge improvement on the 3GS - the LED light is a *massive* improvement - but, again, there didn't seem much difference in quality to my HTC and I'm not sure if I'd be rushing out to upgrade if I still had my iPhone.
Oh, and I had no problem reproducing the dodgy antennae issue, and that was when handling the phone in a normal way.
I like the redesign a lot (although it curiously makes it feel a bit chunkier in the hand than the 3GS) and the new screen was very nice - but nowhere near nice as I was expecting. Maybe that's because I've got used to the HTC Desire's screen?
The camera was a huge improvement on the 3GS - the LED light is a *massive* improvement - but, again, there didn't seem much difference in quality to my HTC and I'm not sure if I'd be rushing out to upgrade if I still had my iPhone.
Oh, and I had no problem reproducing the dodgy antennae issue, and that was when handling the phone in a normal way.
Callum91
Let them eat cock
I had a play with one in an O2 store today and I have to agree with you there Ed , the screen is nice but nowhere near as ''revolutionary'' as I was expecting ( plus at arms length you can't really tell , I had to get about 3 inches from the screen and got a weird look from the sales assistant ).
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
OMG YOU CAN'T USE THE IPHONE 4 BECAUSE IT SAID IT IN ENGADGET
and also it looks shit because of something I made up after I saw that thing in the press
yeah
and also it looks shit because of something I made up after I saw that thing in the press
yeah
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
well here's my quick 30 second review.
O2 are a pack of cunts who've royally fucked up my order and not sorted out my second handset, however it does allow a like for like comparison here goes...
on the subject of the phone it has less signal compared to the 3 g in a side by side comparison in my flat it cuts off calls all to readily as I've done several times now but more importantly than any of this no one can hear me on the fucker at all even the cretinous O2.
Equally apple have missed a massive trick with this phone making the upgrade procedure so simples. As a result all that happens is that you upgrade restore your old phone to it and then oh wait it's now just my old phone with a touch more real time speed and a little nicer screen and camera...
other than the design which is monumentally flawed as has been discussed it's just your old phone in a new case. All the usual new tech joy is then superseded by the but it's not actually that different... in fact it's pretty much the same...
I give it 9 months before they release a 4 S which has a revised antenna and also change the mic inputs to make it work as a phone...
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