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Don't let the overhyped media lead you on too much. I very much like the i4
better than my 3GS and do not regret the upgrade.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:26 PM, fiver.driver <fiver.driver@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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:
> >
> >
> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/CTR4DyFWWbg/apple_ip\
> hone4_hold_different
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > Things you can do from here:
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