{"id":2456,"date":"2010-07-16T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2010-07-16T01:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:25:45","slug":"iphone-4-antenna-woes-apple-is-too-stubborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2010\/iphone-4-antenna-woes-apple-is-too-stubborn.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4 Antenna Woes: Apple is Too Stubborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the hypes surrounding the release of iPhone 4, now everyone&#8217;s attention is directed to the &#8220;flaws&#8221; that comes with the new phone especially on the antenna woes! To make things worse, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/electronics\/2010\/07\/apple-iphone-4-antenna-issue-iphone4-problems-dropped-calls-lab-test-confirmed-problem-issues-signal-strength-att-network-gsm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports <\/a>said careful testing has confirmed user reports that holding the phone over a particular spot drastically reduces the signal strength it receives. Covering the spot with duct tape or a case would solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iPhone-Consumer-Reports113215-300x300.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2459 alignleft\" title=\"iPhone Consumer Reports113215--300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iPhone-Consumer-Reports113215-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iPhone-Consumer-Reports113215-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iPhone-Consumer-Reports113215-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>But the sad thing is the way Apple or Steve Job to be exact is responding to the issue. He was very blunt in an e-mail\u00a0 to a concerned iPhone 4 owner who voiced out his dissatisfaction on the amount of dropped calls due to poor reception. &#8220;Just avoid holding it in that way,&#8221; he wrote. Oh no! As much as Apple wants to claim that they have created a phone with a brilliant engineering, such a response would not help resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Apple has\u00a0 not officially provide an acceptable free solution to the iPhone 4&#8217;s signal-loss problem.\u00a0 As usual, they are too stubborn to admit they made a mistake. Though there is speculation that Apple could announce a program to give away a $29 Apple-branded bumper case that would fix the problem, many iPhon 4 buyers would not want that and they are hoping for a recall and a hardware fix! Well, who doesn&#8217;t when one have spent quite a lot to get this phone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Apple would downplay this and claim that many happy customers are out there and only a small number of the users are having such problem.<\/p>\n<p>I do think Apple was under immense pressure to release the phone after several <a href=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2010\/so-gizmodos-iphone-4-is-for-real-after-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;leaked&#8221; prototypes <\/a>were found. They might have not tested the phone well enough before announcing its release.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll see what Apple will say in the upcoming press conference on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the hypes surrounding the release of iPhone 4, now everyone&#8217;s attention is directed to the &#8220;flaws&#8221; that comes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,1101,1100,1099,1048,949,1009],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-web","tag-apple","tag-consumer-reports","tag-error","tag-flaws","tag-iphone-4","tag-phones","tag-smartphones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}