Watch how you hold those Iphones

[Skud]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/...ex.html?hpt=T2

(CNN) -- Hours after its iPhone 4 went on sale to excited crowds Thursday, Apple found itself responding to complaints that holding the phone by its metal edge causes mobile reception to suffer.

The company's response, in a nutshell? You're holding it wrong.

"Just avoid holding it in that way," Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote in an e-mail that was making the rounds on the Web on Friday morning.

So the sleek new design looks great, but functions so-so.

[Rand{CLR}]

I just find this utterly hilarious on so many levels. I wonder how the Apple fanboys feel about this, and if it will slow that absurd i-whatever fad.

-Rand

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

LOL. I just heard about this on the radio. Design over function... Great.

[ch33s3r]

LOL. I just heard about this on the radio. Design over function... Great.

Wonder if NOT touching that metal thing was in their Use Cases

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

Maybe they only had right-handed testers.

[baconoclock]

I have an iphone 3g (so model 2 of 4), while i love it i dont see any reason to purchase the new iphones. Heck i might go with a droid once this contract is up.

[Sirex]

It possibly was, it should have been seen as the antenna is located there.
Thou its obvious the results, blocking those tiny powered signals is easy.

and can i just say, any radio (even cellphones) is only as good as the antenna attached to it.

[Apache Warrior]

All most all phones are moving to have the antenna located at the bottom of the phone. This is because of the concerns with radiation close to a person's head.
Apache

[Skud]

Maybe it'll help if they make them smaller and thinner next time.

Reminds me of an old Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/app...st-loyal,2772/


And this one has a few good lines:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/app...w-iphone,8295/

[juneau]

I just find this utterly hilarious on so many levels. I wonder how the Apple fanboys feel about this, and if it will slow that absurd i-whatever fad.

-Rand

I'm with you on finding it hilarious. And no, no it won't slow it down.

I guess the IPhone V5 will be just around the corner to fix this issue? And all the idiots will rush out to buy it.

[DougBob]

ROFL, I was reading about this day before yesterday. This is hilarious.

Oh but didn't you hear Steve says it's not a phone problem it's just a phone user education problem and they can easily fix it by buying a case for the iPhone 4.

Oh have I said today, Android Rocks

[Duke{CLR}]

LOL. It reminds me of that joke where the patient says to his doctor "It hurts whenI do this" and the Doc replies "The don't do that"

[Skud]

LOL. It reminds me of that joke where the patient says to his doctor "It hurts whenI do this" and the Doc replies "The don't do that"

Lol. I remember that one.

[K PhaNTOM]

Silly humans. They can suck up electraons an' hurtz.