Yes, the iPhone 4 is broken / No, the iPhone 4 is not broken
The controversy over the iPhone 4's antenna issues continues to grow, particularly after Consumer Reports confirmed yesterday that every iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation when the phone is held with the lower left corner covered -- a report that we confirmed with results from our own custom signal metering app. At this point, there's no longer any question in our minds that the iPhone 4's antenna can be made to lose signal by holding it "wrong" -- and we definitely think it's more than a little silly that simply holding the phone in your left hand has been nicknamed the "death grip." That said, however, it's not at all clear what the real-world effects of the antenna issue actually are for most people -- as we've repeatedly said, several iPhone 4s owned by the Engadget staff (including our review unit) have never experienced so much as a single dropped call, while others suffer from signal issues that results in lost calls and unresponsive data in a dramatic way. What's more, at this point Apple's sold well over two million iPhone 4s , and we simply haven't heard the sort of outcry from users that we'd normally hear if a product this high-profile and this popular had a showstopping defect.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-issue, controversy, engadget, industry, iphone, iphone4, outcry, peers, report, users, using-the-phone, well-as-reached, world, york
Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus coming to France next week
Hey, France, you really want to rub some salt in AT&T customers' wounds for no reason other than the fact that you're feeling scrappy?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: alright-then, browsers-come, custom-goodies, engadget-mobile, entry, extensive, helps-customers, hotspot-network, palm, pixi plus, pre plus, these-devices, using-the-phone
Windows Phone Marketplace can remotely revoke app licenses
Speaking at a MIX10 session about Windows Phone 7 Series architecture this morning, Microsoft's Istvan Cseri mentioned that the Windows Phone Marketplace -- the one and only clearinghouse for apps in WP7S -- will be able to remotely revoke licenses. Since devices will only run properly-licensed apps, this effectively means the company will be able to shut down apps remotely -- a capability they'd probably invoke if a Marketplace app were to badly misbehave en masse, for example. To put it bluntly, Cseri says that apps simply aren't in control of their own life cycle; the user controls installation and removal while the Marketplace ensures that the license is valid.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: architecture, badly-misbehave, clearinghouse, effectively, marketplace, mix, mobile, platform, senior-director, using-the-phone, windows, wp7s
First Look at NFL Mobile Live for HTC Hero | AndroidGuys
Wanna see what you prospective HTC Hero owners have to look forward to? I've been using the phone for the better part of a week now and have found the NFL.
Categories: Android, htc Tags: ag-originals, archives, hero-sprint, htc-hero, mobile, mobile-live, nfl, nfl-apps-for-android, nfl-network, phone, search, software-news, sprint, using-the-phone