Apple begins iPhone 4 Case Program: apply for your free case or Bumper now
Well, there's nothing like masking bad news with good news, right Apple ? Just moments after quietly announcing that the white iPhone 4 is now scheduled to ship sometime between tomorrow and your New Year's Eve party, the company has also fired up its iPhone 4 Case Program.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: antennaissue, apple, breakingnews, bumper, credit-card, guys, itunes, problem, program, reception
iPhone ‘End Call’ sticker is an ironic solution to your reception problem
Not sold on those iPhone Antenna-aid bandages ? Fret not, as we've got a whole 'nother round of laughs coming your way. What started as a concept has landed on Etsy as a buyable product: the 'End Call' vinyl sticker.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna-issue, bandages, engadget, funny, iphone, iphone4, laughs-coming, nother-round, only-problem, reception, receptionissue, spot, Sticker
Apple shows Nokia’s N97 Mini can be force choked, too (video)
Nokia claims it always prioritizes antenna performance over physical design , and we'll take them at their word, but that apparently didn't exempt one Espoo handset from Apple's grip of doom. Here's the Nokia N97 Mini going down for the count, from a full seven bars to two.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: antenna, apparently-didn, apple, engadget, entry, force-choked, iphone4, nokia, reception, result, signal
HTC fires back at Apple antenna demo with percentage pew-pew
Apple's Friday press conference may have left a bad taste in some rival handset manufacturer's mouths , but not all of them are taking Cupertino's derision of their devices seriously -- HTC's Droid Eris was arguably the most effected by the grip of doom, its bars dropping to zilch when held, but the Taiwanese company keeping any controversial opinions to itself for now. Instead, it's sharing a simple percentage to help clear the air
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: antenna-issue, demo, devices, handset, htc, reception, result, start, taste, their-devices, verizon
Inside Apple’s ‘black lab’ wireless testing facilities
It's not surprising that after Apple finished explaining the iPhone 4 antenna issues to the press today, the company wanted to go one step further and say "yes, actually, we do test the hell out of these phones before we release them to the public." Though Steve Jobs went over the lengthy and intensive kinds of radio evaluation that goes on at Apple's headquarters, it didn't seem to be enough for the folks in Cupertino. And that, we suspect, is why we were invited (along with a small group of other journalists) to take a brief tour of Apple's Infinite Loop labs.
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Live from Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference
The event is set to start at the times below -- so get ready! 07:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Mountain 12:00PM - Central 01:00PM - Eastern 06:00PM - London 07:00PM - Paris 09:00PM - Moscow 02:00AM - Tokyo (July 17th) Continue reading Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference Live from Apple's iPhone 4 press conference originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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Apple to hold iPhone 4 press conference this Friday
Headline says it all folks. Obviously the company is going to be getting out in front of this antenna drama (finally)
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iPhone 4′s antenna problem looks worse than it is, but it’s still bad
The iPhone 4 's antenna issues have sparked off a firestorm of debate as to the root cause -- Apple says holding the phone differently or buying a case are the best answers, while other are going down a more voodoo path -- but our friends at AnandTech have done some more scientific testing of the problem and come up with a few interesting results. Turns out the iPhone 4 actually performs slightly better inside a case than a phone like the Nexus One, which has had similar issues crop up, but it's slightly worse when held in the hand, reporting an average signal drop of 20dB.
Categories: Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: antenna, apple, entry, iphone, Meter, Noise, phone, problem, range, reception, words
The Jimmy Fallon Test: is the iPhone 4 dropping fewer calls?
If you watched the most recent episode of The Engadget Show , then you know that Jimmy Fallon had a lot to say about the iPhone -- particularly the fact that he's been fed up with his 3GS' dropped calls, and was planning a jump to an Android device on Verizon if the iPhone 4 didn't improve things. You see, he takes a path through Midtown Manhattan where his calls are dropped in two specific locations on a daily basis.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: calls, calls-or-less, dropped calls, entry, fallon, iphone, iphone3gs, iphone4, jimmy, jimmy fallon, Poll, reception, result, words
Google: Nexus One 3G issues result of poor coverage, bugs; patch possibly within a week
Looks like Google's investigation into the crappy 3G claims on the Nexus One are winding down, and it's a one-two combo of good news and bad news. First, the bad: preliminary findings suggest that poor 3G coverage factors into it, at least in part -- a believable story considering that T-Mobile has the smallest 3G footprint of the four US nationals. Now, the good: there's a software component to the problem, too, and the company says that it's already testing a fix.
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