iPhone OS4 Released!

Many users are reporting that it happens when you bridge the BOTTOM and the left side with your hand or even a key. You can see the bottom is touching his palm in the video. Poor design! Yikes. Apparently, if you call apple, they are recommending that you buy there bump case. And people are reporting that the use of a case makes it a non-issue, but once again: poor design. Hopefully, it is actually a manufacturing flaw that has been already taken care of.
 
This report illustrates that it's not a problem associated with only a certain batch of units, it seems like a complete design flaw.

http://gizmodo.com/5571171/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you-hold-it-by-the-antenna-band

How on earth did that get through testing?

The article makes a good point that this is the first phone for which Apple are releasing a first party rubber case straight away...there's no way that they didn't know about this.

When something like this happens I always think about that old quote from a pilot;

"Never fly the 'A' model of anything."
 
Early adopters do often get burned with new tech or even new products. That's why I waited months for win 7, to make sure it was all clear. I've seen too many MS products with glowing reports in beta that turned out to be a turkey, at least initially. But this sort of thing happens entirely too often these days whether it be cars, phones, OSeseseses... ummm..., or just about anything.
 
Thats a bummer....

In the WWDC show, Steve explains that the outer section is a series of antennaes, that is why they are seperated by thin gaps, two at the bottom and one near the top side. They show in a video how the antennaes look outside of the unit (before assembly).

I guess I'll hold off... arrgh...



Bill
 
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