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How to solve the iPhone 4 antenna problem

Buy a apple iPhone 4 bumper you will no longer touch the antennas on the phone

Dress up your iPhone 4 with an iPhone 4 Bumper. Choose one of six colors — white, black, blue, green, orange, or pink — and slip it around the edge of your iPhone 4. With metal buttons for volume and power, two-tone colors, and a combination of rubber and molded plastic, Bumpers add a touch of style to any iPhone 4. Retails for $29.00 at apple

Recall, that’s what many people are searching for on Google right now as you can see in the top Google Trend. It’s currently the 18th hottest search term on Google right now. Apple is not doing any iPhone 4G Recall, so don’t be alarmed by this.

A fake Twitter account with user name “CEOSteveJobs” tweeted the following: “We may have to recall the new iPhone 4. This, I did not expect.”. People thought this Twitter account is owned by Steve Jobs, but it’s not. Someone made this Twitter account for doing a parody on Steve Jobs.

The iPhone 4G was just released on June 24. It does have problems, but nothing that is major. Reception issues, and activation issues were the two major problems with the iPhone 4G.

If you value your privacy and your freedom, you should stay away from the latest iOS 4 update and iPhone 4. Nakodari, from AddictiveTips purportedly had a conversation with an Apple employee “Alpha” who revealed some disturbing secrets about the new iPhone 4G and iOS4 to him. To explain it in simple terms, he found out the following:
1. iOS4 has code which sends updates to the user every 1-2 weeks and locks their system if they are not using AT&T as their carrier. AT&T and Apple both have 6 months of OTA’s in their server, according to the “Alpha” Apple employee.
2. Apple can check users’ baseband and carrier information and also see whether or not they are jailbroken when they call Apple Care Support. Apple staff has been instructed to void users’ warranty once they find out if they jailbreak iOS4. The full message that the Apple employee gave about the OTA is below:
“How it works is every 7 to 14 days We (Apple) and AT&T send a message to your iPhone that gathers some data from your iPhone without you knowing and we see what is running, baseband and firmware. We then send a following message. “There are optional updates for your iPhone, Would you like to install them now?” two options “Yes” or “Later”. Those are what would would call “OPTIONAL UPDATES” Now there are things called “MANDATORY UPDATES”. They tend to work the same way, grab data from the iPhones sends it to AT&T and us then back to your iPhone with the message, “Your iPhone (name of iphone) must be updated to the current AT&T standards to run”, your only option is to “Accept” Now you can try to work your way around it until you get the second mandatory message again “You must plug iPhone into iTunes and update” If you don’t do this you will then receive no Signal from the network anymore and your iPhone will potentially lock up with no signs of use until you update your iPhone via iTunes. You all agreed to this terms and condition when you installed iTunes 9.2 and then again once you updated to iOS4. With that being Said go ahead Try to unlock the iPhone it will only last 14 days max…”
3. On iPhone 4, when you use FaceTime Apple can check what two phones are communicating with each other and also see what location these phones are communicating from too. Here is what the Apple Employee said about FaceTime:
I will let you off with one last bit of information if your gonna write a story on this and that is Facetime, the iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 Wifi video connecting. The issue is with Wifi is that anyone can get on a Wifi Signal and potentially see what the viewers and broadcasters are looking at without them know, now Apple will deny this and say its not our problem you where not on a secure connection, in my mind I think that its all bullshit.
People should be able to have some type of security during those calls. Worst yet is once a person connects to another person on FaceTime it for some reason non of us in the office can figure out, sends us APPLE a message and says those two people are connecting via Facetime and gives out their location to us. So for whatever reason we need that information just blows my mind. As a consumer why would you need to let Apple know that you are connecting with a person via FaceTime, its non of Apple’s business.
Do you trust the “Alpha” Apple employee? If this is true, will this effect whether or not you update to iOS 4 or get the new iPhone 4? Let us know what you think about this in the comments.


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By now you’ve heard about the antenna issues some people are having with the new iPhone 4. Basically, it seems like wireless signal strength degrades if you hold the lower left corner on some, but not all devices.

This has been shown on video and there are many reports out there about this issue — something that is particularly troublesome for left-handed people. I’m sure a lot of people have asked Apple about the issue — I have too.

So far, I have yet to hear anything back other than they’re looking into it. But one man did hear something back about the issue — from Steve Jobs himself.

C.K. Sample emailed Jobs earlier this afternoon about the issue. A few hours later, Jobs responded with the following:

Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.

The first part of his statement is likely true, but the thing is, Apple specifically manufactured this version of the iPhone to have an antenna that wraps around the entire body of the device. Most devices, obviously, don’t do this. Apple undoubtedly did this with good intentions — to both improve reception and make the device itself more compact. But is it possible they miscalculated the trade-off?

Jobs’ solution to hold the phone differently is a bit unreasonable. His other solution to buy one of the new cases is, sadly, expensive (each one costs $29). If the problem is as widespread as some are making it seem, perhaps Apple should be giving these bumpers away.

Sample also let me know that Jobs actually just sent the exact same email to him again. This may mean he’s sending this to all the people who emailed him about this issue today.

Despite the busy launch day, Jobs is clearly going through his email. Earlier, he responded to someone about the new FaceTime feature replacing the Hold button on the phone.

Update: Sure enough, the statement Jobs emailed out is the official statement Apple is now using. Also check out the one-liner Jobs sent to another user that Engadget obtained:

Just avoid holding it that way.

Best “that’s what she said” ever?

Here is a video that shows the problem Video

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iOS4 firmware will be relesed soon. I will post links when I get them


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While the news of Apple's iPad having 3G wasn't exactly a surprise, the move to a new format for the SIM certainly was. Till release of iPad 3G was MicroSIM used only in marginal GSM products such watches.

New smaller form factor allows MicroSIM to fit in these tiny devices. There is not absolutely clue what justification Apple had to switch to this new format.

The advantage is that chips of both new MicroSIM and "old" standart SIM (also called MiniSIM) are compatible. However size is different. With new MicroSIM Adaptor you will be able to change SIMs between new (iPad, iPhone 4G) and other GSM devices (phones, modem, etc.).

Do not pay for 2 or more data plans, use our MicroSIM Adaptor.

It works with the mirco-SIM cards of all SIM vendors
It can be used in almost every mobile phone
It is a purely mechanical solution and no part must be bended or moved to insert the micro-SIM card into the adapter

The latest redsn0w beta lets you individually select whether multitasking and homescreen wallpaper are enabled. It also adds battery percentage and verbose boot mode options. (Verbose boot shows you the kernel messages during boot)

Note: Once you enable battery percentage, you actually toggle it off and on via Settings→General→Usage.

If you change your mind about any of the settings, just re-run redsn0w again (be sure not to reinstall Cydia if you do that).

The redsn0w beta is still only for 4.0GM on iPhone3G and ipt2G (non-MC version). Don't use the beta yet if you use yellowsn0w/ultrasn0w/blacksn0w!

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