Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:54:35 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
The bumper has helped the holding issue, but the dropped calls and failed connects have not been helped... now this could be ATT and not the phone, but since we are forced to use ATT (at this time) they are one in the same.
I do think that since the fix involves a $30 piece of plastic that costs a few cents to manufacture, Apple should offer some type of rebate to those of us who HAD to buy bumpers in order to make the phone function... either that or allow us to return the phones with no restocking fee.
Just knowing how litigious this country is, I give it 2-3 weeks before someone has a class action going on it.... maybe not even that long.
mike
On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
> It's a combination of both...the perception that the signal bars go down more is related to how the iPhone 4 in conjunction with iOS 4.0 handles this display. The *dropped calls* issue that can explicitly be traced to bridging the bare antennas is more subtle: some don't have the issue at all, while others, related to things like how ones holds the phone, skin conductivity, and probably other factors, is something that exists, but nowhere near as severe and widespread as it's made out to be (except to the people plagued by it, of course).
>
> Simply getting any case or the Apple bumper (a very small plastic rubberized rim that goes like a band around the metal part of the phone) solves the antenna issue completely. My judgment is that, *with a case*, iPhone 4 gets significantly better reception than any previous generation iPhone.
>
> - Dave
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Blackmon Jerry (Contractor) wrote:
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>> Is this typical sky is falling Apple hysteria that'll be cured by a software update, or is it real? I don't have an iPhone 4, so I can't tell.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry L. Blackmon II <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
>>
>> Senior Systems Administrator
>> Open Technology Group (Contractor)
>> OITO, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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>> "The more I learn about computers, the more I like my pencil." -- Susan Katz
>>
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>> On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Kim, Andy (Gregg) wrote:
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>> In case you didn’t know that Apple is looking to hire iPhone and iPod antenna engineers, according to Apple jobs.
>> http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55849&CurrentPage=1
>>
>> This is almost certainly in regard to an antenna issue causing poor reception and dropped calls, especially left-handed person like me.
>> Apple has gotten mounting complaints that holding the new iPhone in a certain way can impede signal strength, making it difficult or even impossible to make and maintain calls.
>> The problems seem to be more prone to left-handed iPhone owners.
>>
>> There are three Apple job postings for iPhone / iPad antenna engineers to "define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices." All two were posted.
>>
>> Andy Kim
>> Dir of I T
>> U.S. Senator Judd Gregg
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