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I could care less about the signal problem. The proximity sensor thing is insanely annoying. I am much much more likely to end the call or put it on mute than I am to drop the call due to reception issues. I've exchanged the phone once already and the replacement phone has the same issue. At first, I thought it was my face (shape? texture?), or the way I was holding it (am I suppose to push it with force against my e…

For now just lock the phone with the top button during every call. The antenna seems to be a much bigger issue and possibly even a hardware problem whereas the proximity sensor issue sounds like a calibration problem.

You can only lock the phone with the top button if you're using headphones or on speakerphone (or a Bluetooth headset, I assume). Otherwise, lock hangs up the call.

Re: Apple letter about iPhone 4

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http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html "Probably the biggest thing I’ve taught the team at Apple is that people never know what they’re supposed to think about anything. This is true in Hollywood, in the book business, in the art world, in politics. And especially in technology. "So we put out a new phone and everyone is sitting there wondering what they should think about it. What I realized many ye…

Fake Steve was eerily prescient here. From June 24: "First of all, this is not a big issue. If you’re experiencing this, most likely it’s not the phone at all — most likely you’re just living in a place where there’s bad reception, in which case the solution is simple: you need to move." http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/you-assholes-need-to-stop-s...

Compare that to the real thing: "Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place."

Re: Apple letter about iPhone 4

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http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html "Probably the biggest thing I’ve taught the team at Apple is that people never know what they’re supposed to think about anything. This is true in Hollywood, in the book business, in the art world, in politics. And especially in technology. "So we put out a new phone and everyone is sitting there wondering what they should think about it. What I realized many ye…

Fake Steve was eerily prescient here. From June 24: "First of all, this is not a big issue. If you’re experiencing this, most likely it’s not the phone at all — most likely you’re just living in a place where there’s bad reception, in which case the solution is simple: you need to move." http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/you-assholes-need-to-stop-s... Compare that to the real thing: "Users observing a drop of several…

Dan Lyons has been covering tech for a long time, so he'd hopefully get some things right. And this isn't the first time he's been spot on--his blogs on Schmidt's involvement on the Apple board are amazing and hilarious.

But every time he's right these days, I think it's karma balancing out how wrong he was on SCO-Linux.

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