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Sure makes me happy Radio shack ran out before I wasted my money on the
new model. My 3Gs with the new upgrade works just fine.

Tom

--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@...>
wrote:
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> Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: AppleCare confirms the
> iPhone 4 slogan: "Hold Different" via 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
> by Jonny Evans on 7/7/10
>
>
>
> We got the memo -- everyone got the memo, remember? The one in which
> Apple admitted to being ‘shocked’ at discovering it used
the wrong
> formula for signal bar indication on the iPhone?
>
> Now it has been confirmed Apple’s iPhone 4 has two problems --
one
> being inaccurate display of signal data, the other being a problem in
> which reception and the signal and the call and anything would drop
> when the device was held on its lower left side.
>
> Here’s the story:
>
> This promised software patch will not change the southpaw reception
> loss problem -- for that you are still going to need a case, or just
> “hold it different”, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a
customer in a
> reprise of the good old-fashioned ‘Think Different’
slogan.
>
> Can almost see an ad campaign in that, “Hold Different”.
>
> Anyway, here’s the deal. Gizmodo, still somewhat chagrined
their
> journalist felt the long arm of the law for purchasing and publishing
> trade secrets (like, don’t paparrazi do this all the time?),
have
> checked it out and found out for sure that the incoming software
update
> will not fix the iPhone 4’s transmission and reception problem.
>
> Gizmodo called AppleCare three times to tell them they were
> experiencing voice quality problems and call drops. They got told that
> there is an antenna interference problem when you hold the iPhone 4 in
> such a way as to touch the device’s dead spot in the left
bottom corner.
>
> AppleCare’s advice? Get a case, or “Hold
Different”.
>
> The incoming software update will not fix this problem. It will just
> make the signaling more accurate.
>
> For all the attempt Apple made to direct attention toward its recent
> message promising a software fix for one of the problems, you’d
almost
> think it was trying to divert attention from the other one, no?
>
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