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New iPhone for Right Handed People? Antenna Issues

Jun 24, 2010 3:00AM PDT

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Not buying it Apple, You deserve this "smackdown"
Jun 24, 2010 11:04PM PDT

Hey People,
Steve Jobs responded to the issue with the antenna problem on the new iPhone. In his email, he played it down as a minor issue and suggest to just hold the phone differently. Hey Steve and Apple that is "B.S.". No one should have to hold a phone in such a manner because of a design deficiency. Steve and Apple, you could have easily designed a small plastic cover film over the area to prevent the contact from occurring or you could have designed the casing differently. Either way, playing it down as a minor issue is the wrong way of addressing the problem. Apple, you have earned this "smackdown"!

Later People.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8761240.stm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/199853/apple_responds_to_iphone_4_antenna_problem.html?tk=hp_blg

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New iPhone for Left Handed People?
Jun 25, 2010 4:30AM PDT

Hmmm....I'm right handed but hold the phone in my LEFT hand. I would argue many people do the same. You want your dominant hand free. It's the hand you write with and the one you tap the phone with. So if you have to hold the phone in your RIGHT hand, I would argue, the iPhone is for LEFT handed people. Wink

This just in....sales of Apple bumpers skyrockets! Wink

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1 cent fix for iPhone 4 antenna problem
Jun 25, 2010 4:59AM PDT
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B.S.
Jun 26, 2010 2:27AM PDT

Scotch tape doesn't work. A friend tried it yesterday. I knew someone would make this post. The concept is sound. The scotch tape isn't.

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Big deal
Jun 25, 2010 9:32AM PDT

Get a case. You probably would have anyway.
Just a problem with external antennas I guess.
Anyway I'm far more concerned with the yellow patches on screens people are having. And... the seam lines. Apple uses a trackpad colored same as the metal on the MacBook Pro and used to have metal coloured plastic keyboards. Couldn't they do similar for the seamlines on the antenna? Put some plastic in there the exact same colour as the aluminium? Unusually sloppy for Apple.

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I verified that you do indeed lose 2 bars of signal
Jun 25, 2010 11:41AM PDT

when you hold the iPhone 4 with your left hand. The interesting thing is that even with this oddity, it still makes calls more consistently than the previous iPhones. Several other friends have verified this finding. In other words, all the hysterical people on the internets just need to pipe down and pay attention to whether losing bars really matters to their quality of service.

Stories like this whip everyone up into a frenzy (Molly Wood included) and then the news cycle moves on and everyone forgets what the big deal was to begin with. I've seen it happen so many times its kind of depressing.

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