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# done for a mate having 'issues'
(I_am_B, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:41, archived)
# You'd think by now
tech geeks would know NOT to buy something as soon as it comes out...

They always release stuff to the market too soon, taking about 6 months to a year ironing out the problems
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:42, archived)
# I like the gadget porn that goes on
People crying with happiness because they've got the latest new shiny thing, and rubbing it and kissing it.

"... and every day - EVERY SINGLE DAY - I pray, and I pray ... for nuclear holocaust." - Bill Hicks
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:51, archived)
# ^fucking THIS.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:53, archived)
# There was four of the cunts behind me in the office this morning
"Let me see... let me see...I have to touch it"
"What have you got then?"
"I've just got the 3GS model"
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!"""
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:58, archived)
# I like apple computers, they don't fuck up as much as windows boxes
However I don't spunk my head off over iphones & ipads, that's just stupid.
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:04, archived)
# nicely put
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:32, archived)
# just in time to bring out the new model
with new problems
(I helped save b3ta! shitkicker, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:54, archived)
# At least it's definitively erroneous
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:00, archived)
# ipadForce:D
(I helped save b3ta! herman:D, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:05, archived)
# No Jedi
FAKE.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:06, archived)
# The bigger Apple get
the more they're like Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:15, archived)
# Go stick your head in a pig!
 
ahhhh, good times...
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:22, archived)
# Either them
Or the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation
(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:42, archived)
# But usually it isn't tech geeks who buy these things,
It's smug show offs with more money the sense.
(I helped save b3ta! Rico, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:11, archived)
# Hehehe
Phone manufacturers are so obsessed with the phone extras they seem to overlook the actual phone device itself
(Beardy Being a pirate is alright with me., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:43, archived)
# You don't think they buy them to actually USE the phone, surely?
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:57, archived)
# To be honest
I'm surprised they aren't worn on gold chains around the neck. Yet.
(Beardy Being a pirate is alright with me., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:00, archived)
# Wait for the tattoos,
we won't be waiting long.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:02, archived)
# I hate Apples and everything they stand for.
So there.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:48, archived)
# Set your iPhone to vibrate
And you can make jokes about Apple in-cider.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:51, archived)
# I'd rather set my phaser to stun.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:56, archived)
# I should send this
to an Apple fanboy I know...
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:50, archived)
# Ha ha ha
Apple are saying users are holding it wrong. YOU'RE HOLDING IT WRONG.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:52, archived)
# Opposable thumb is opposable.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:55, archived)
# I saw this on another site
and assumed it was a joke...

I may be wrong
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:59, archived)
# So are Apple
www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/hey-apple-youre-holding-it-wrong/
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:09, archived)
# pffft
(Beardy Being a pirate is alright with me., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:14, archived)
# Arf!
Some useful (or tedious) details:

  • 2G radio reception is not affected, so making and receiving phonecalls should be not affected, certainly in the UK. (http://mattgemmell.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-signal-loss-issues) [Edit: Hmm, actually, how can we be sure? Perhaps Matt Gemmell was a normal distance form a 3G mast, but happened to be right next to a 2G one? Need more info.]

  • This is not the only phone that is affected by how you hold it: see this comment by grahamwilliams stating that the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, Storm, and Storm 2 all have "diagrams in the manual on how NOT to hold your phone".

Edit: note that I am not saying "...therefore it doesn't matter".
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 14:54, archived)
# C]:0)


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:08, archived)
# BTs
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:18, archived)
# ver' well, ta
taand I trust you're the same



(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:30, archived)
# splendid!
Yeah, I'm ok. Rumbling on. You know how it is sometimes: wheels spinning, but the scenery doesn't seem to be moving... :-S
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:50, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:59, archived)
# My missus' fancy phone
has the antenna in the bit where you're not normally holding it, thus circumventing this problem.

There should be something in the manual about not holding it like it's the PRECIOUS.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:13, archived)
# THey wantses it. Yessssssss. They sha'n't get it!
I thought it was odd to make the antenna == the bit you hold on to. I wonder about keys or coins shorting the gap too. Perhaps they'll add some transparent insulator coating onto the stainless to prevent this. Who knows.
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:29, archived)
# Fucking appil :(
My mate just got an ipad. He does loads of stuff in flash. What a cunt :)
(I helped save b3ta! Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 15:02, archived)