So I woke up at 10AM this morning (isn’t life great for a full time student?) to read through the live blog of the Apple press conference over at Endgadget, you can look at it here. And I thought it was quite hilarious.
First Steve Jobs started out saying that it wasn’t a problem he compared the signal loss issue to a blackberry bold 9700, the samsung Omnia 2, and the Droid Eris. According to Mr. Jobs all three of these phones showed sizeable signal drops by holding the phone in a similar manner to that which causes the iPhone 4 problem. Unfortunately I do not have any of those phones to test with but I do have a Nexus One.
So as I was reading this I whipped out my phone and started trying to grab it in all manner of awkward ways. He said it would take a while because other phones report this stuff very slowly,so I was sitting there holding my phone in different ways for quite a while. After about 5 minutes of trying I found that if I held my Nexus One with both hands completely covering the bottom portion of the phone I got it to go from 4 bars to 3 bars. Unfortunately I could not figure a way to do it with one hand so I will post a picture if my girlfriend is willing to take a picture of me holding my phone like an idiot. I advise you to not wait for that picture because I doubt she will want to waste her time doing that.
Hopefully she won’t mind when I grab her iPhone 3G and start holding it like an idiot trying to get the signal to go down. I have had a 3G and a 3GS in the past and never noticed any problems when I used it without a case, but I am right handed. But anyways then I will truly see if Steve Jobs was telling the truth about this being common to all iPhones!
Then Steve Jobs went into some other stuff that had to do with numbers of complaints and junk which was totally stupid. everyone knows that if .55% of 3 million people are calling to complain about the problem then like 5% of people probably have the problem haha. But I will let you read the live blog or possibly watch the video if it appears somewhere. I think Steve Jobs’s uses of some choice words in reference to a Bloomberg article will probably stop it from appearing on apple.com.
Anyways I just want to say that in this situation is totally agree with Steve Jobs’s first assessment. This really is a non-issue. if I had an iPhone 4 I would have walked out of the store with a case or bought one as soon as one was available, and then I never would have experienced the issue. But I kind of like seeing Apple in the spotlight for a negative issue every once in a while. But really, in the long run this won’t matter, 3 million people have the phone in their hands right now and the everyone that I have seen LOVES it. And I must say I am VERY jealous of that screen.
Peace out ya’ll