true dat...it's one reason i'm rarely an early adopter of new tech nowadays. I let the bugs get worked out, the price drop, and the feature set expand before I buy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:40:25 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Apple's Clean Hands May Have Dirtied iPhone 4 Signal Keith, I can't help but think that Apple's line of thinking was "Let's get the product out there... they'll lap it up so fast that they'll never notice things like that." On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: The phone shouldn't be that sensitive, 'cause you never know how someone will hold a device--especially a phone. I'm not quite sure how duct tape fixes the problem, though. Apple's frustrating at times with what they give us and what they don't. For my iPod, for example, I stay upset that it doesn't have a built in antenna for radio reception. The device must have headphones, which function as the antenna. The problem is, that makes it very sensitive to positioning, so that I sometimes find myself fiddling with the position of the headphone cord to strengthen signals for weaker stations. Reminds me of the days when we had to keep adjusting the "rabbit ears" for the old TVs. Why Apple couldn't have lined the inside of the iPod with a flat antenna, and then let the headphones *add* their strength to that, is beyond me. I know there's room inside for that. I guess it's cost control, but in this one aspect, it was poor design. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's a design issue with the iPhone 4 antenna, and not just the simple software glitch they keep putting forth as the cause. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:07:06 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Apple's Clean Hands May Have Dirtied iPhone 4 Signal I didn't initially see why anyone would hold a phone by the bottom like that to lose signal strength, until Sunday, when I was running an errand with my niece. That's how she texts, so I figure that's how all of the kids do it. Myself, I text by cupping my phone in my right hand and making the keystrokes with my left index finger. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: I think that it is just a design flaw. If you touch the corner of the phone it is probably making you ground. Consumer Reports said that the signal drops about -20db! Which can take about 1/2 of a signal. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: Still not quite buying this... http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/apples-clean-hands-may-have-dirtied-iphone-4-signal/ -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
