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Article #534Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: SMS
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:17
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:17
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On 13/07/10 4:06 PM, John Higdon wrote: > In article<yx5%n.36029$YX3.29859@newsfe18.iad>, > "John Richards"<JR@blackhole.invalid> wrote: > >> "Ted Nelson"<ted@rnelson.org> wrote in message >> news:4c3b8bed$0$1323$815e3792@news.qwest.net... >>> John Slade<hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Yea it's clear from Youtube videos and tests like the one >>>> from CR that the iPhone 4 has a hardware problem when it comes >>>> to the antenna. Apple is flat out lying when they say it's only >>>> a software issue. >>> >>> you can fix most any hardware problem through software don't forget. >> >> Not so. The laws of physics (including antenna efficiency) can't be >> circumvented with software. > > Virtual circumvention. At least it "appears" to solve the problem. I'm reminded of a place I worked and our "virtual thermal sensor" software fix that we came up with for a customer. It circumvented the hardware problem, but it was really not a fix, it was a workaround. The fix came in the next rev of silicon. The real fix for the iPhone antenna issue is no doubt being feverishly worked on, and meanwhile you see the tidbits of advice like "use a bumper" or "hold it different."
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X-Google-Thread: 110038,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fa874,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidd668eef4dc,gidaa617e85ca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp0.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:17:15 -0700 From: SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet Subject: Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended References: <i1frtr$q3$1@news.eternal-september.org> <98L_n.737$o27.20@newsfe08.iad> <4c3b8bed$0$1323$815e3792@news.qwest.net> <yx5%n.36029$YX3.29859@newsfe18.iad> <higgy-82677E.16063513072010@news.announcetech.com> In-Reply-To: <higgy-82677E.16063513072010@news.announcetech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4c3d0206$0$22158$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 2010 00:17:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 092b75f9.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=CmMJSM68alQ_dQhaIKYMKTm4K\QM1CV^P1OYf0H`?;XQ<e>b31`>JMP@C@@_`9Z^QXNJ^\81Xo:e^ X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net