Now you can put your iPhone in field-test mode, which will allow you to easily test your signal strength. You just need to follow these steps:
An executive at Mexican mobile phone carrier Telcel claims that Apple has a revised iPhone 4 coming late September that fixes the annoying antenna problems everyone’s seen with the original model.
Back in July, at the iPhone 4 Antennagate conference, Steve Jobs acknowledged the iPhone 4′s proximity sensor issues and said they’d be fixed in the “next update”. According to an Apple Australia spokesperson, they won’t.
According to Gruber’s sources, Apple filed a bug on the iPhone 4 antenna issues two whole years ago. So why did they launch such a poor excuse for a communication device? Does Mark Papermaster’s departure have anything to do with it?
Remember those photos from Apple showing their amazing foam padded reception testing rooms? Well, Telstra’s got one of their own, plus a guy called Warwick who tests every single Telstra handset’s antenna performance.
After months of debate surrounding the iPhone 4′s antenna issues, the New York Times is reporting that Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive responsible for overseeing the iPhone’s hardware, has left the company.
It was a huge ordeal in the States, prompting Steve Jobs himself to cut short a Hawaiian vacation to address the media. But here in Australia, we’re getting mixed reports on whether Antennagate is even an issue on the Australian networks.
Without rhyme nor reason Apple has mysteriously pulled all references to competitor’s smartphone antennas from its website.
