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I'm 90% sure it's coincidence, but the fact that Apple decided to release their first iPhone bumper/case, and in iOS4 removed the field test mode that showed numeric signal strength, does make me wonder. It's going to be interesting to see how this all turns out, but I'm disappointed in many of the news sites who are now badging it as an issue with displayed strength. I have an iPhone 4, live in an area with good sig…
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It's not a bug, it's a feature?
More like: it's a drawback. I have a hard time believing the shorting-the-antennas issue was unforeseen by Apple. I give a company that just pulled in a $63.5B year a little more credit.
I'm 90% sure it's coincidence, but the fact that Apple decided to release their first iPhone bumper/case, and in iOS4 removed the field test mode that showed numeric signal strength, does make me wonder. It's going to be interesting to see how this all turns out, but I'm disappointed in many of the news sites who are now badging it as an issue with displayed strength. I have an iPhone 4, live in an area with good sig…
So data throughput is still 90%? That's not too bad
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More like: it's a drawback. I have a hard time believing the shorting-the-antennas issue was unforeseen by Apple. I give a company that just pulled in a $63.5B year a little more credit.
Huge companies can still make huge mistakes. Ask BP and their $250B in revenue.
Apple's is based around creating beautiful products with innovative new features. They have definitely done it again... but whether or not the external antenna feature in particular will be seen as innovative.. I guess we will have to "stay tuned".
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I have a great little app for my Android G1 that shows your location on a google map (GPS) as well as the location of the cell tower you're connected to. I suspect Apple don't provide an API for this sort of stuff..
What is that app named? I want it!
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Oh, your works fine? In that case, everyone else who has an anecdote about theirs not working fine doesn't really matter. Because if yours works fine, it must not be a problem. I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this BP oil spill, I don't see any oil washing up on the beaches near me in the northeast, so it can't be THAT big of a problem, right?
By observing the fluidity of Long Island Sound, though, you can be sure that no one has dumped ice-nine into the Gulf of Mexico. Similarly the existence of a single functioning production iPhone 4 proves that there's no fundamental design flaw in the frame-as-antenna idea. I've also had no reception problems with my iPhone 4, despite trying everything I've read about or can think of to provoke them. Licking fingertip…
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So data throughput is still 90%? That's not too bad
Explanation: "decimate" is to strike down one in ten. To decimate 100% signal strength would be to reduce it by 10%. Hence the lovely pedantic comment above. :-)
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Explanation: "decimate" is to strike down one in ten. To decimate 100% signal strength would be to reduce it by 10%. Hence the lovely pedantic comment above. :-)
Your "explanation" is wrong, even if you have more upvotes than philwelch. Decimation was a form of military punishment in the roman army where one soldier on ten was killed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) )
My guess is that you misread my statement and thought I said that it reduces the signal to 10%. But I didn't say that, and in fact I gave the correct explanation in two ways to make sure I would be interpreted clearly.
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Explanation: "decimate" is to strike down one in ten. To decimate 100% signal strength would be to reduce it by 10%. Hence the lovely pedantic comment above. :-)
Your "explanation" is wrong, even if you have more upvotes than philwelch. Decimation was a form of military punishment in the roman army where one soldier on ten was killed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) )