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.
Now I understand why AT&T representatives react so cheerfully when I call to complain about my reception. [Shoebox]
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?
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.
If sitting stone still in the one corner of your apartment that actually gets decent reception sounds like a terrible way to conduct a phone call, a Bluetooth headset can act as an extender for your mobile phone’s terrible reception
This cheeky advert for the Samsung Galaxy S appeared in the UK press today. Samsung must be shifting a lot of those phones if it’s got marketing money leftover to waste on gently mocking the competition. [Samsung Hub]
I hope someone makes the “End Call” iPhone 4 decal for real, just like the iPhone 4 antenna Band-Aids. It looks to me like a more stylish solution to the antenna problem than the free Apple bumpers.
