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To: Kurthend who wrote (103025)	9/14/2010 8:21:48 PM
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If there was not a problem with the antenna design, they would not have issued the free bumper. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple tries to spin its broken Iphone 4 It was all a bad dream, go back to bed fanbois By Nick Farrell theinquirer.net Mon Sep 13 2010, 11:40 FRUIT THEMED Apple is having another go at spinning itself out of the public relations disaster that is the Iphone 4. After initially pretending that the Iphone 4 dropping calls was all in the imagination of the press and nothing to do with poor design, Apple offered to "fix" the problem by giving users a free rubber band. At the time it said that it would stop giving anyone a rubber band by September. The assumption was that the problem would be fixed by then. However on Apple's website the rubber band offer was withdrawn along with the statement that the shonky design problem only affected a small minority of customers. Apple's Iphone 4 users are in exactly the same situation that they were before "antennagate" and effectively have been abandoned by the company. Well, almost but not quite. It seems that anyone who claims to be suffering from the antenna problem can still write to Apple and get a free rubber band. Since the majority of users suffer from the design flaw they can apply for their rubber band, but Apple can continue to deny that there ever was a problem. And Jobs' Mob can't be sued because it is offering a fix. All very clever spinning, which means that Steve Jobs can continue to flog the broken Iphone 4 without having to make any design changes. We are betting that the next generation will not have the same daft design and all will be well. Well, when we say well, we mean for Steve Jobs and Apple. Once again users who are now being sold a broken phone that does not come with a life-saving rubber band are still stuck with it as Apple is refusing to fix the basic problem with the antenna design. Still, Apple fanbois can be rest assured that all this makes sure that Steve Jobs still appears perfect and never makes any mistakes. No doubt they will be flooding website comments boxes saying that their Iphone 4 never had any problems and now that Saint Steve has confirmed that it was never broken in the first place, any reports of problems are just media bias. -------------------------------------------- iPhone: Great Device, Lousy Telephone? We tried placing calls in poor coverage areas with four AT&T phones. The worst results consistently came from Apple iPhones. Mark Sullivan, PC World Aug 24, 2010 8:30 pm pcworld.com Excerpt: I tested four phones on AT&T service in two cities over three days. I drove around San Francisco and Los Angeles comparing the performance of the IPHONE 4 and the IPHONE 3GS against the performance of the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000 and the Pantech Impact in voice calls placed at roughly the same time from areas where coverage from the AT&T network is less than optimal. What I found was surprising. Calls on the IPHONE 4 and IPHONE 3GS failed to connect or dropped in midcall far more often than did calls on the other two phones, and the IPHONE calls that connected successfully sounded marginally worse than calls placed with the BlackBerry and Pantech phones.