Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[Kanda]

Just walked by the people camping out at the Apple store. round the corner already...!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just walked by the people camping out at the Apple store. round the corner already...!

Oh man don't post that, the Ed will have an apoplectic fit!

 

[Kanda]

Oh man don't post that, the Ed will have an apoplectic fit!

Thought I'd give him something to get wound up about before he goes to bed

 

[editor]

Oh man don't post that, the Ed will have an apoplectic fit!

I love it

 

[Kanda]

Surely that's iLove?

 

[twistedAM]

Surely that's iLove?

I need to change my status to fanboI

 

[Pie 1]

I see The Guardian have commisioned Fry to mastubate in public again

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/23/iphone4-first-review-stephen-fry

What's the point? It's like getting a 2 year old to review a fucking lollipop.

 

[maldwyn]

TNT delivered at 9.35am

<off to play>

 

[dogmatique]

Round the corner from the Apple store on Regent St at 9 this morning. The queue goes all the way down Hanover St, and halfway round Hanover Square. At least 1000 people. Apparently they had 4,500 and they've all been preordered or accounted for.

Cycled down Oxford St, and there were queues outside all of the phone shops, me reckons they'll be all sold out very shortly.

 

[ivebeenhigh]

I just had a wander over there, amusingly the people that queued and didnt pre order have been pushed to the back of the queue, one guy had been queuing for two days.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Crazy...has anyone seen the growing list of people with defects? The two that jump out are yellowish screen blotches at the top or bottom of the screen and (this one cracked me up) call reception dropping to almost nothing when people pick the phone up! As we all know the metal strips around the phone are the ariels, there's a video I saw last night which shows the reception bars dropping to nothing when picked up and going back up again when laid flat on a table.

If this is happening enough to make headlines Apple might be facing a recall...

 

[elbows]

If as bad as suggested, those defects could certainly be a disaster.

I decided not to bother trying to get a new iphone today as I didnt fancy queuing, getting out of bed early, or being distracted from the iPad.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

If as bad as suggested, those defects could certainly be a disaster.

I decided not to bother trying to get a new iphone today as I didnt fancy queuing, getting out of bed early, or being distracted from the iPad.

Yeah I've all but decided to wait till September to upgrade, think I'm going to treat myself to the new Xbox instead.

 

[fen_boy]

Got mine, I queued outside the o2 shop for 3 hours from 7am this morning. I literally hate myself.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Got mine, I queued outside the o2 shop for 3 hours from 7am this morning. I literally hate myself.

I'd suggest calling Samaritans, but then you won't be able to pick the phone up AND speak

 

[grit]

Got mine, I queued outside the o2 shop for 3 hours from 7am this morning. I literally hate myself.

Did you have a pre order?

 

[fen_boy]

Did you have a pre order?

No. o2 didn't take pre-orders at all. You had to already be an o2 customer to get one.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

No. o2 didn't take pre-orders at all. You had to already be an o2 customer to get one.

Had any problems with reception or the screen?

 

[g force]

Got mine, I queued outside the o2 shop for 3 hours from 7am this morning. I literally hate myself.

Good job because that's a twatty thing to do. "oh look at me everyone I have a new shiny thing"

 

[fen_boy]

Had any problems with reception or the screen?

No none, it's fine so far.

 

[fen_boy]

Good job because that's a twatty thing to do. "oh look at me everyone I have a new shiny thing"

I'm afraid I can't argue with that. If I'd sorted out my pre-order with Apple I wouldn't have done it.

 

[elbows]

Regarding the issues, if it's anything like previous release issues, it will turn out to be only a minority of people affected, but time will tell

 

[Pie 1]

I know we've done it to death, but this malarkey genuinely baffles me.

It's a fucking phone - it'll do pretty much the same things that your old one did with a few new whizzes & bangs and a new case that you'll get over by tomorrow and you'll be able to stroll into a store & buy one in 5 mins next week.
Why

(It's actually quite depressing)

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It really doesn't bother me, in fact I find people's negative reactions to this weirder than the people in the line. People like to get things on release day, people go to opening nights of films, plays etc. Smartphones aren't just phones anymore, they're a critical part of people's daily lives in a number of ways...

 

[maldwyn]

Had any problems with reception or the screen?

I've noticed a slight problem if I'm touching the bottom left hand corner I lose my o2 connection.

I need to take it out and about to test signal strength.

Other than that I'm loving it.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I've noticed a slight problem if I'm touching the bottom left hand corner I lose my o2 connection.

I need to take it out and about to test signal strength.

Other than that I'm loving it.

What's more annoying than spending hours lining up for a shiny new gadget? Learning that your precious phone can't actually connect to the network. Well, depending on how you hold it -- word has it that the iPhone 4's bottom-left corner isn't playing nice with your skin. If you recall from the keynote, that's where the Bluetooth / WiFi / GPS antenna meets its GSM / UMTS counterpart. So we decided to test on two brand new iPhone 4 handsets purchased today in the UK.

One iPhone 4 demonstrated the issue everytime it was held in our left hand (as a right-handed person is apt to do) so that our palm was essentially bridging the two antennas. You can see that in the video after the break. Bridging the two with a finger tip, however, didn't cause any issues with the reported reception. If we had to guess, we'd say that our conductive skin was acting to detune the antenna -- in fact, we've already managed to slowly kill two calls that way so it's not just an issue with the software erroneously reporting an incorrect signal strength.

Link

 

[fen_boy]

I can't get mine to do that at all. Doesn't matter how I hold it I get 5 bars the whole time. I'll see if it's still OK when I get home as the signal is weaker there.

 

[Pie 1]

I find people's negative reactions to this weirder than the people in the line. People like to get things on release day, people go to opening nights of films, plays etc. Smartphones aren't just phones anymore, they're a critical part of people's daily lives in a number of ways...

Not convinced.
Your analogy to culture is also very tenuous.

 

[editor]

What's the point? It's like getting a 2 year old to review a fucking lollipop.

Indeed. But there again, the Guardian have a nice cosy little relationship going with Apple, as commented on in Private Eye this week.

I know we've done it to death, but this malarkey genuinely baffles me. ...
(It's actually quite depressing)

Me too. And some twat flew all the way from Dubai just to stand in an iPhone queue in London.

 

[elbows]

Well even an age of conspicuous consumption has its limits, and some of the cult-like attributes, queuing etc clearly overstep the mark for some people. Personally Im a bit conflicted with this stuff because on the one hand I appreciate good technology & design rather a lot, and I had practice being a fan of one particular type of computer by growing up as a Speccy fan, on the otherhand Im not exactly a lover of shopping, brands & corporations.