Jan Zdarsa There is a special Apple press conference tomorrow night, and no one expects Apple not to present a solution to this case tomorrow. But already now we bring two news that will please everyone who plans to buy an iPhone 4. The antenna problem is probably solved.
According to TheStreet, Apple has already modified the manufacturing process by adding one component to prevent the problem that occurs. It will not be necessary to redo the design and everything can remain the same. According to this site, this is the reason why there are no more iPhone 4 in stock. But this is a big speculation and cannot be confirmed, that it is based on truth. Personally, I find it strange that if it was that easy, Apple wouldn't have solved the problem this way before the release of the iPhone 4, so I still don't have much faith in this option.
I am still an optimist and I believe that the problem can be solved solve well with software and this is confirmed by Federico Viticci from the well-known Apple server Macstories. He couldn't wait and installed iOS 4.1 and what did he find? The problem just disappeared! But let's get down to business. I will not translate the entire article from Federico, but I will summarize the article in points:
1) Federico was able to use the "death grip" significantly reduce signal and speed data transmission, but was never able (in Italy) to achieve complete signal loss. Where the signal was strong, he was able to lose 3-4 lines of signal in 30-40 seconds with an "inappropriate" grip, and 4 lines in 15 seconds in a zone with a bad signal. But as he says, he never missed a single call!
2) After installing iOS 4.0.1, the death grip still worked, but the loss of signal was significantly slower. It lost 2-3 bars, but this was an area where the signal is usually very poor.
3) Then tried the same grip in an area where the signal is stronger - but he didn't lose a single line of signal! He thought it was interesting and so he tried to hold the phone in his hand unnaturally tight, trying to get as much signal loss as possible. But what didn't happen? After 10 seconds, he lost one bar, but it returned after a while and he had 5 bars of signal again. So he waited and the iPhone 4 lost that single bar again, and the signal then remained at 4 bars. You can replicate this on any phone by covering the antenna, certainly no problem.
4) Now you're probably thinking that Apple just wants to satisfy us by showing a few bars of signal, even though the phone has practically no signal? So let's take a look at the data transfers that Federico also tried.
iPhone 4 – death grip (4 lines of signal)
iPhone 4 - normal holding (5 bars of signal)
iPhone 4 death grip even reached significantly higher download speeds than when holding the phone normally! I almost wonder how that is even possible. The upload was lower, but it is still a really fast transfer speed, this is not really the serious problem that the Internet is full of.
Now you're thinking it's a coincidence? Federico tried the tests 3 times with 30 minute intervals. That would be too much of a coincidence, wouldn't you think? And Federico is certainly no die-hard Apple fanboy. So if you are thinking whether to buy an iPhone 4 or not, don't hesitate, the iPhone 4 is an excellent buy and definitely the best smartphone on the market.
But let's be surprised by what Apple will announce tomorrow. We will bring live broadcast in the evening from 19:00!
source: macstories.net
I wouldn't hesitate to buy it if it was available :(
I don't see, but you should probably take off those rose-colored glasses, right?
Or at least put everything to rest.
I recently read here that there is actually no problem, so it will be solved by SW. And now here I read that "... apple modified the production process..." = (for me it's confusing) that is hw modification, not sw!
And finally... if the problem was as it was presented here (basically none and 99,99% of people just cheated unnecessarily) then this administration doesn't really make sense, does it? Or am I mistaken?
Hey, did you see the report from the laboratory measurement?
Being trivialized like this is a bit boring.
Maybe it wants to clean the articles from beginning to end, then there will be no need for such contributions... :) And sorry for writing articles in the same vein as The New York Times.. just today there was an article published that the problem is probably software..
Well, I had no idea that there was not enough invention for one's own style and that the NYT is being copied here :-)
Then everything is clear to me.
And as for some of your advice - then you always answered that it should be clean from beginning to end.... there would be no other arguments - these are such... I would say Paroubkovske!
And ad solving the problem - if, for example, it doesn't happen that apple won't admit the problem again, it will say that it's their matter, but they will quietly change it???
One last thing - I wouldn't dare put Federico above gizmodo, engadget, etc.
The article in the NYT was published later than this article, so the inspiration of the NYT is definitely not here (after all, the original source is the WSJ, which mostly has information directly from Apple). anyway - for the most part, a software fix will solve it.. those who live in an area with a weak signal will have to either hold the iPhone differently or buy a case.. we'll see in the evening and if I'm wrong, I'd like to apologize :)
It was recommended to read the article again, because I don't claim anywhere that it will be solved by hardware.. I just mentioned one of the speculations that I don't believe (see the article).. if it changed silently (and Apple didn't admit it), then on iFixit guys will come..
I don't know, it seems to me that the file got a lot of media coverage... at Nokia, no one really addressed it, but this is a pretty big iProduct;) I have no idea if Apple changed the production technology, anyway they only wrote about it on iFix and more or less it was taken over by superApple, anyway then I didn't see that other servers wrote it, maybe I haven't read everything yet, but probably like this for HW. Otherwise, a couple of servers already did the HW analysis and said where the error is most likely. They even removed it by changing a small part of the SIM card, because the metal part was touching the frame and thus the antenna, and apparently a few people missed it. Personally, I'm a supporter of Apple and I see it as a big problem that the iPhone doesn't work as it should, but at the same time there's also the B that it's being hyped like a pig...
I remember how everyone cursed that the iPhone before OS3 didn't have copy&paste and how everyone cursed how it was SMEJD's smartphone + they wrote it everywhere. At the moment, WM7 is supposed to be released, which also doesn't have it, but even on a couple of apple servers, they are mostly silent about it, because everyone goes to MS anyway, and Apple is a thorn in everyone's side, because it is "more successful".
We will see what happens.
That hw modification is just speculation for now. Personally, I do not think that Apple would be able to react so quickly and change the design or material of such an important component.
Adam, here you are on the applefun site. You can't write this here ;-))) You can think it, but for God's sake, there's no point in writing it publicly. That's like walking into a black ghetto and yelling "Long live the Ku Klux Klan" ;-)
:-) exactly opposite!
And so that I don't get the impression that I'm on the other side - I've been working with apples for 17 years and if I don't have to do anything else I won't - I'm doing super things.
But I really think that it is necessary to get rid of the rose-colored glasses - here it seems to me as if there was no problem at all, and I am slowly starting to wonder that this rhetoric is not starting to be adopted abroad when the problem is so banal.
Is there an error in the article? I don't know about 4.0.1 being released
There is no error here.. you just need to check another news item, iOS 4.0.1 was released yesterday..
4.01 is now for everyone, 4.1 for SDK owners, or developers. It's the same for all iPad firmware version 3.2.1 that I downloaded this morning.
Oh, I did not know that. But why is the article called Experience with 4.1 when he had 4.0.1 installed?
Let me clarify - in the title and the introduction of the article it is written about 4.1, but in point no. 2 it is 4.0.1
iOS 4.1 released to developers, 4.0.1 released to the public :)
Evidently there was a problem when the new iPhone 4 series has an aluminum alloy instead of a steel frame...
well, we'll just see in a moment.-)
dog I liked the article.-)