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Steve Jobs: “Phones are not perfect”
16 Lug
Steve Jobs è salito sul palchetto a Cupertino, per “darsi in pasto” ai giornalisti e per dare spiegazioni al mondo riguardo il problema antenna che iPhone 4 ha dimostrato di avere.
Ecco le parole di Steve:
” Ultimamente, da quando abbiamo lanciato iPhone 4, abbiamo ricevuto tantissime lamentele riguardanti un problema che affligerebbe l’antenna del nostro telefono. Gizmodo ha pubblicato un video dove fanno vedere che toccando l’angolo sinistro in basso le tacche del segnale scendono in modo evidente.
Questo è successo 22 giorni fa e noi non abbiamo assolutamente voluto mettere la testa nella sabbia e far finta di niente. Abbiamo invece lavorato sodo su questo problema esattamente fino ad oggi, per 22 giorni. Noi siamo una compagnia seria e VOGLIAMO scoprire sempre qual’è la vera natura e radice del problema. Ci siamo fatti “il mazzo”, come si dice, per trovare soluzioni vere. E oggi vogliamo condividere con tutti voi ciò che abbiamo imparato.
Dunque gente, si è addirittura parlato di AntennaGate, poichè nell’era della tecnologia mobile avere un telefono che perde il segnale se lo tocchi, non è certo una cosa positiva. Ma noi per primi ci siamo accorti che questo non succede solo all’iPhone, anzi, succede a tutti i telefoni.
Abbiamo fatto i nostri test e abbiamo avuto una segnalazione di errori dovuti soprattutto al software. Il nostro obiettibo era di mettere l’algoritmo corretto dentro e lo abbiamo fatto con il nuovo aggiornamento. Inizierete a vedere i miglioramenti sin da subito, ma certamente non abbiamo ancora scoperto un modo per cambiare le leggi della fisica”
Noi non siamo perfetti, lo sappiamo. Bene. I telefoni nemmeno.”
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Steve Jobs: “Spesi milioni di dollari per fare i test su iPhone 4″
16 Lug
I telefoni non sono perfetti, ha ripetuto più volte Steve Jobs, e proprio per questo Apple ha investito 100 milioni di dollari per creare 17 camere anecoiche.
Dai test Apple sapeva già che tenendo l’iPhone in un certo modo le tacche si sarebbero abbassate, ma è un problema che non può essere risolto su nessun cellulare!
Quello che aggiunge Steve Jobs è questo: “Tutti gli utenti hanno però segnalato una migliore qualità del segnale”
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Steve Jobs: il “problema” dell’antenna è presente su diversi dispositivi, ecco alcuni test
16 Lug
Steve Jobs, ha dichiarato (come era prevedibile) che il problema dell’antenna non si verifica esclusivamente sul nuovo iPhone 4 ma è presente su molti altri terminali. Le dichiarazioni di Jobs sono state seguite da una serie di immagini all’interno delle quali sono stati riportati i dati di alcuni test eseguiti da Apple su altri dispositivi.
Ecco i risultati dei test effettuati da Apple coprendo con la mano la parte dov’è situata l’antenna del dispositivo:
- BlackBerry Bold 9700 (RIM): da cinque tacche ad una tacca;
- HTC Droid Eris (Android): da quattro a zero tacche;
- Samsung Omnia II (Win Mobile): da quattro ad una tacca.
Qui le immagini delle prove:
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Apple posts iPhone 4 press conference video, “smartphone antenna performance” page
16 Lug
Well, that was quick. Not only has Apple already posted the complete video of today’s iPhone 4 presser, but it’s also put up a special “smartphone antenna performance” page that offers pictures and videos aplenty of the antenna comparisons shown during the press conference. And you didn’t think today could get any weirder. Hit up the links below to see for yourself.
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Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users
16 Lug
Apple’s not really ready to say it’s sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design, but it is willing to give all you darn squeaky wheels free cases for your trouble. Since Apple can’t build its own Bumpers fast enough, it will give you a few options and let you decide, then send it your way for free as long as you purchased the phone before September 30th. Not good enough for you? Well, if you already bought a bumper from Apple you’ll get a refund, and you can also return your phone for a full refund within 30 days as long as it’s unharmed.
This solution comes at the end of 22 days of Apple engineers “working their butts off,” according to Steve, with “physics” ultimately being pinned as the main culprit. Apple claims you can replicate the left-handed “death grip” bar-dropping problem on the BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris, and Samsung Omnia II, and that “phones aren’t perfect.” Steve also claims that only 0.55% of people who bought the iPhone 4 have called into AppleCare to complain about the antenna, and the phone has a 1.7% return rate at AT&T, compared to 6% with the 3GS, though he would cop to a slight increase in dropped callsover the iPhone 3GS. For this Steve has what he confesses to be a pet theory: that 3GS users were using the case they had from the 3G, and therefore weren’t met with the horrible reality of a naked, call dropping handset. Hence the free case solution, which will probably satisfy some, infuriate others, and never even blip onto the radar of many of the massive horde of consumers that’s devoured this product in unprecedented numbers.
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Apple's Steve Jobs: “no one's going to buy” a big phone
16 Lug
In response to a question at its press conference today about whether Apple could’ve done anything to avoid its antenna issues with the iPhone 4, Steve took the opportunity to rip on bigger rivals, saying that making a phone so big “you can’t get your hand around it” helps, but that “no one’s going to buy that.” We’re assuming he’s likely talking about the latest crop of 4-, 4.3- and 5-inch phones that include the Galaxy S series, the EVO 4G, Droid X, and Dell Streak, even going so far as to call them “Hummers” (we take it you don’t ever drive a Hummer, Steve?). Though ripping on the competition is to be expected, perhaps the more interesting takeaway here is that we can’t realistically expect an iPhone much bigger than the 3.5-inch display they use today — presumably that’ll all be reserved for iPad territory going forward. We personally don’t mind something with a little more screen real estate — but hey, maybe humans need to go through a few more cycles of evolutionary hand enlargement before Cupertino’s willing to capitulate.
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iPhone 4 coming to Italy and 16 other countries July 30th
16 Lug
Not much of a surprise here, but Apple has now finally revised its previous “by the end of July” iPhone 4 launch timeframe for some of the remaining international countries to a specific date: July 30th. That includes Canada, Italy a whole host of European countries, plus Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Absent from that list, however, is South Korea, which had been among the “end of July” group, but has apparently been pushed back to an unspecified date for reasons unknown.
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Apple: iPhone 4 drops “less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS”
16 Lug
It’s fairly obvious that the howls around the web for Apple to address this antenna issue has gotten underneath the skin of one Steve Jobs, and in a fashion that’s very much unlike Apple (or AT&T, for that matter), the aforesaid CEO has actually handed out a bit of hard data surrounding dropped calls on the iPhone 4. According to Jobs, AT&T won’t reveal the exact amount of call drops for competitive reasons, but they did manage to push out a meaningful delta. As of today, they’ve noticed that the “iPhone 4 drops less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS.” In other words, the iPhone 4 has actually been dropping more calls than the 3GS in the three weeks that the former has been on the market. Of course, Steve’s also playing up the fact that just a fraction of a percent of all buyers have bothered to call in about their bout with dropped calls (and why would you, knowing there’s no cure?), but it’s still interesting to finally get some cold, hard facts on this disaster. Even if it’s but a snippet.
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iPhone 4 proximity sensor fix in the works
16 Lug
If you think the proximity sensor on your iPhone 4 has been acting wacky, don’t worry, turns out you’re not crazy: Apple has just committed to fixing weirdness in the next software update at its press conference today. Problems have mainly revolved around the sensor failing to detect your face when you’re on a call, leading to accidentally hang-ups, mutes, and so on as your ear makes contact with the screen — not too cool. Then again, if you’ve been staying off your phone lately for fear of dropping a call, well… maybe you didn’t notice.
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iPhone 4 sales: 3 million and counting, 1.7 percent returned
16 Lug
In today’s iPhone 4 press conference out in Cupertino, Apple has revealed that they’ve pushed 3 million phones so far since launch a little under a month ago. For the record, that’s about twice the number Apple sold in the first weekend — 1.7 million — so the pace has clearly slowed down a bit, though that would appear to be due almost exclusively to supply constraints.
As for how many of those sold phones are staying out in the field, Jobs has revealed return rates, too: 1.7 percent, which works out to about 51,000 phones, compared to 6 percent for the 3GS. Seems like most of these returners would’ve been better off eBaying for a profit, eh?
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