At the iPhone 4 Press Conference, today, even though Steve Jobs does not use a bumper on his iPhone 4, he offered the over 3 million people who bought the latest iPhone 4, free bumper cases, refunds if they bought an Apple case, showed a funny video, and showed other phones with attenuation. He offered full refunds to anyone who's not satisfied, and noted that the press was unfair to the iPhone 4. He did not offer a product recall as some had hoped.
Jobs said that only 0.55% of iPhone 4 owners have called in to AppleCare to complain. He showed on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Droid Eris have simular attenuation issues to the death grip on the iPhone 4.
He did admit about Apple, "We're not perfect."
Consumer Reports is not giving the iPhone their seal of approval and also found Apple's claim that the signal bars were
wrongly calculated was bogus.
Wireless and Mobile News' "Review of Reviews" of the
iPhone 4 (AT&T) showed many good features, but also concerns
for the limited data plans as well as signal attenuation.
The
iPhone 4 had problems with
slow uploads. Apple reported that they were stunned with the
south-paw attenuation/death grip and there was a problem with signal bars
that would be fixed with a
software update. On almost every cell phone there can be signal
degradation from hands
blocking the antenna. We posted several videos that show
signal attenuation. If was previously reported that electrical tape
did not solve the "death grip" gripe.
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