iPhone 4 antenna problem resolved?
Many of you people who were lucky enough to get your hands on Apple’s latest model of the iPhone were surely very surpised to see that the iPhone 4′s phone signal weakens when holding the bottom left side of the phone. Apple must have picked this up during pre-release tests, surely?
Apple has replied to all the people moaning about the issue and they say it is down to software rather than poorly designed hardware. Apple believes that it is simply just a display error and the phone actually has a much greater signal than displayed and promises a fix will be coming soon.
This “fix” is coming to all iPhone models, so it should display a better signal for even users with an older generation iPhone.
Apple stated “Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong.”
The rest of Apple's Press Release regarding the antenna issues can be read here.
It looks like the iPhone’s signal calculating ability is totally mixed up altogether and a fix should be coming soon to sort it all out. I'm sure that you iPhone 4 owners are very pleased to hear that.
Chris Cooper
Reader Comments (4)
Don't mean to sound to mean, but Apple actually said their formula showed two more bars then what it should of showed...
Haven't apple come out with a new update firmware to the iphone 4, which solves the antenna problem??
Hi,
I think the problem here is that people are falling into a trap in which they think this software update is going to give them 'better' or 'more' signal, this isn't true. What this update is going to do is use a standard used by many mobile manufacturers to calculate signal levels.
I have no idea how the little signal icon at the top of the iPhone works, whether it is used by the iPhone as a reference to signal or if it is simply a graphical display, anyway.
If the iPhone references its signal strength from this bar then that means we are going to be dropping calls and loosing signal more (Apple has stated that in some cases the signal indicator has been showing two more bars than it should). If iOS recognizes that the signal indicator at the top is showing no signal and takes this 'variable' as a be all and end all of whether you have signal or not, be ready for more problems. Why? If this signal indicator starts showing less bars than iPhone users are getting now, you will be lucky to ever have signal.
I really think we need to consider Apple's antenna design, maybe they got it wrong? Maybe they took the simple and made it complicated, so complicated that they got it all wrong and have now left people struggling to keep signal. Either way this will be answered upon software release.
We will all either be happy that our iPhone 4's are displaying the correct signal, or we will go through all these arguments with Apple. Again
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