The iphone 4 isn't a bad phone, like any other phone out there issues with it. I don't necessarily hate the iPhone 4 but what is god damn annoying is the way Apple treats its products. In all their advertisements apple has claimed that the iPhone revolutionized the world as if they created the worlds first phone or something. It didn't. What it did was popularized touch screen and brought it to the general public. It also started the whole shitty "look we got a screen and one/two/three/four buttons on the bottom and that's our phone" design. Apple did finally release a statement in regards to the iPhone 4 reception issue and their findings was that the iPhone doesn't have a reception issue, it has an issue with displaying the correct amount of bars. That means when you touch the bottom and the bars drop from 4/5 to 1/2, the phone actually had 1/2 bars the entire time, it was just to fucked up to display it correctly.
side note: I saw the new ads for the iPads and wtf? Magical? Revolutionary? fuck that.
Edit: Here's a link to their statement to the iphone 4 issues
This here is my favourite:
Quote:
To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.
At the same time, we continue to read articles and receive hundreds of emails from users saying that iPhone 4 reception is better than the iPhone 3GS. They are delighted. This matches our own experience and testing. What can explain all of this?
We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.
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http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010...pleletter.html