Indeed. It probably costs 50p to produce.
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Apple + free bumpers
Apple have finally acknowledged that the new iphone 4 has issues with it's signal when held. Their solution to this is to offer a 'free' bumper to its customers. I could be wrong here but I'm sure when I first saw the iphone 4 available for sale that these bumpers were being sold as a seperate accessory, what I found curious was what an unusual accessory to sell on it's first day. With that in mind, isn't it strange that this unusual accessory just happens to be the exact thing they are now giving away for free. Was Apple aware of this fault BEFORE it's release!
Apple have finally acknowledged that the new iphone 4 has issues with it's signal when held. Their solution to this is to offer a 'free' bumper to its customers. I could be wrong here but I'm sure when I first saw the iphone 4 available for sale that these bumpers were being sold as a seperate accessory, what I found curious was what an unusual accessory to sell on it's first day. With that in mind, isn't it strange that this unusual accessory just happens to be the exact thing they are now giving away for free. Was Apple aware of this fault BEFORE it's release!
So with Apple admitting yesterday that the iPhone 4 has an hardware fault it looks like us consumers have grounds to cancel our 24 month contracts.
If the problem is really affecting your call experience then return the phone for a refund, as per the info given yesterday.
Welcome to the world of retailAnd they sell it for about £25
I think people's concerns are more with having signed up for £40 per month contracts for 2 years and not knowing whether these can be cancelled. Apple offering refunds is subtly yet importantly different to providers allowing contract cancellations.
As yet, i'm not aware of a concrete yes or no answer on this subject from anyone.
Even Apple only went so far as to say they 'think' AT&T will allow this.
I absolutely agree that there's a design flaw and there is a problem with the antenna, what i don't agree with is that it renders the phone unusable. I can live with making a phone call with 2 bars signal instead of 4, as long as the call doesn't drop then i'm a happy chappy
Same as you matey
The phone has a design flaw which previous Apple phones haven't had to the extend of people dropping calls/ getting the no service issue but since the patch this hasn't been happen to myself as much and Apple has given all of their customers the choice to return the phone if they are unhappy or a little incentive with a free case to help rectify the problem and keep customers I think Apple have done a good job with the compensation choices and have put a good amount of effort and thought into fixing the problem without cause a recall and re-manufacturing/repairing 3 million phones. My only gripe with them is trying to avoid the physical problem of the device and saying that every phone has this issue, which they do but not to the same extent to the iPhone 4.
Good on them for actually compensating their customers though and trying to keep everyone happy from returns to free cases, that is a very bold move by any company.
Actually, for a lot of people it does bring about some daily problems, just maybe not for you.
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Where people get this notion from? I've had a ip4 now for about 2 weeks, use it all of the country with work and have NEVER been in this situation? My iPhone always has as many bars as my bberry and I haven't dropped a call. I dropped more on my 3G than this. People seem to put invisible barriers up, but that's your prerogative. I'm so pleased with mine u bought my wife one and she's giddy over how good it's been. I can invoke the drop, but keep my calls. And besides if I do find myself in that situation all I'll do is adjust my grip.
Speaking of grip o find I put my little finger over the mic more, but wouldn't complain
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One thing I noticed from that conference.
Near the start he says they started to investigate and 'found out' that all smartphones have this issue.
Later on he claims 'we knew if you held it in a certain way, the bars are gonna go down a little bit, just like every smartphone, we didn't think it'd be a big problem because every smartphone has this issue'
So which is it, did you know all this beforehand or did you just discover that other phones do it in the last 3 weeks?
Near the start he says they started to investigate and 'found out' that all smartphones have this issue.
Later on he claims 'we knew if you held it in a certain way, the bars are gonna go down a little bit, just like every smartphone, we didn't think it'd be a big problem because every smartphone has this issue'
So which is it, did you know all this beforehand or did you just discover that other phones do it in the last 3 weeks?
Soldato
They should be recalling the phones and putting in place a coating or alteration within the phone to reduce the effect. Perhaps Toyota should have followed this kind of bs approach and just offered customers more airbags for free in case their accelerator sticking problems caused anyone any difficulty.... Lol.
Personally, I'm pretty happy with Apple's handling of this and after just watching the recording of Jobs' conference yesterday am quite satisfied by the actions being taken.
The only thing I'm confused by is why 4.01 is over 500mb!? Why so large?
The only thing I'm confused by is why 4.01 is over 500mb!? Why so large?
And they sell it for about £25
It's just a bit of rubber, they probably cost less to make than that. You also have to bare in mind that Apple weren't making their own iPhone cases before the iPhone 4, so it's not like the sale of cases were something they were relying on as forecast revenue, it was something that would make them a little extra money.
The iPhone can't be 'patched' can it? You effectively have to redownload the whole thing every update I thought.
I'm no expert, but isn't entire firmware/OS changed everytime a new update is put on. While the update change may be small, the entire thing has to be replaced.
Personally I think they knew about it well before the phone shipped, hence the introduction of the bumper which conveniently just happens to cover the problem area and no more.
The data they produced yesterday proved it is a very small number of people with problems.
And considering that data is from the company that owns the product I'd take it with a large truck load of salt.