whatsinaname
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clown_abhi said:How many people would be out there who complain about the iPhone4 signal - just a few. We accept it or not the iPhone4 is a great device so i don't think there would be many people who wil claim a refund.
And the call drops if true at 1 per 100, dats no big a deal anyway. I have Vodafone 3G here in UK and in my house the signal goes off on any mobile like so many times. The signal sucks so what bad can a iPhone4 do
A solution will come someday...
Before you guys start bashing me up, i am not a Apple fanboy.
While I agree that the iPhone looks like the best smart phone available (the closes I've gotten to getting a smartphone), the reception is an issue. I have personally experienced it on my sister's phone. (Yes anecdotal evidence of 1 situation but I don't want my 600$+ phone's behaviour to be a crapshoot). I will stick with my dumbphone and get the iPod touch in September.
Coming to the conference, I found some things very very pathetic.
1) "Others have the issue as well, so we are excused." - Others have the antenna attenuation issues. Apple's issue is because of bridging two antennas. No other phone has this issue. And the sad thing is, this was a design decision they took knowingly. There is no way it can be fixed on those already sold.
2) "1 per 100 more issues than 3GS" - This is a very deceptive statement. First, they agree that there are more dropped calls than the 3GS. Now if you notice, he did not say 1% more. He said 1 per 100 more. There is no way for us to know what the percentage increase over the 3GS is. If the 3GS has 1 per 100 dropped, this has 2 per 100 dropped , so a 100% increase in dropped calls. (Drops for 3Gs are speculated to be 1.4%. So 2.4 per 100 for iPhone 4 = 40% increase in dropped calls.)
3) "No one called to complain / no one returned" - They did. The initial callers were told to wait for Apple's fix. So lots of people did. Now that there is no fix, people who want to return it, will.
