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The new iPhone is out and many users are complaining that if you touch the phone in the bottom left corner, the signal drops significantly enough to make the phone virtually useless. It's something to do with the way the internal antenna is configured.

Anyway, Steve Jobs/Apple have responded to questions about this by saying:
"Just avoid holding it in that way."
"avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band"
Reported here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8761240.stm

So, they release a product that's simply not fit for purpose and have the gall to blame end users for holding it wrong. It's nothing to do with poor developmental testing, quality control and shoddy design at all. Dear oh dear.

I'd never buy an Apple product.

'Doctor my arm hurts when I lift it.'

I find pears to be much more humble.

kumquats are little show-offs too...

IAIN wrote:kumquats are little show-offs too...

Kumquats make me laugh...

More astonishing is, why did no one during the entire prototyping process notice this problem?

Tomo wrote:More astonishing is, why did no one during the entire prototyping process notice this problem?

Presumably all their developers are right-handed?

Robbie wrote:Presumably all their developers are right-handed?

That would explain it. Serves 'em right for being Leftist!

Robbie wrote:

Tomo wrote:More astonishing is, why did no one during the entire prototyping process notice this problem?

Presumably all their developers are right-handed?

And all this time I thought Apple were sinister!

...Barkeep, my coat! Yes, the one with the mittens on elastic.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges

That's okay because (for all the completely sad no lifers who rushed out to buy this the second it was available) the iPhone 5 will undoubtedly be released in six months without that problem.

It was perhaps missed because all the test iPhone 4s were put in a case which disguised them as iPhone 3GSs

But then again, I'm reluctant to think it's an iPhone 4 problem at all. I'm able to recreate exactly the same behaviour on my 3GS, which suggests it could be a software problem. Just the likes of BBC News aren't reporting that, because "software problem hits iOS" isn't as exciting a headline as "iPhone 4's new antenna setup doesn't work"

See this response on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXYYkUHrAQM

ajaxjones wrote:See this response on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXYYkUHrAQM

It's been blocked on copyright grounds.

I used to work as an IT journalist, and had quite a few encounters with Apple.

The company was, on the whole and in my opinion, arrogant and horrible.

My editor encouraged me to deliver all my reviews and editorial with warts-and-all realism. In the process, we became quite popular with the magazine's readers, as we effectively saved them thousands of pounds that they could have spent on overhyped or immature flaky video editing kit.

But within a short time, all my conversations with Apple's product managers went along the lines of...

'It's Pete, isn't it..?... yeah... let me run this by my supervisor and see if I'm allowed to answer this question. I'll get back to you.'

I always likened them to the Borg Collective from Star Trek.

Things might have changed in the last few years though. Apple might now be a utopia of niceness... Honest and truly it might!

Pete