It's all my own fault...
so I've got an iPhone 4 with no signal.... clearly that's because I'm holding it wrong (i.e. using my fucking hands!!)

fuck you Steve Jobs!! if I was a thalidomide or Jeremy Beadle, I might be able to get a fucking signal would I???? no... because some fruit-obsessed nutter devised a phone which is held together by conductive materials which bridge a gap between the antennae, but no-one thought this might be a problem with reducing the operations of the device!

and you call yourselves a technology company!
(Anne Frank started to build a loft conversion on, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 14:39, 7 replies)

Ahhh
they were so proud of their antenna as well.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 14:42, closed)

I've got a smashing antenna
want to see it?
( broadsword now that's fresh, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 14:54, closed)

Haha
My housemate just upgraded from an iPhone to an N900. Since iPhones don't let you copy your numbers from the phone to the sim card we spent an hour faffing around trying to do it. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been possible if I didn't have a mac.
(mmm....beer, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 21:01, closed)

sync the phone to a computer
export the address book (names and numbers) as vcards. You can send vcards via bluetooth to the N900 or use whatever software is available for the N900.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 17 Jul 2010, 18:52, closed)

I think this is the downside
of them wanting to have every a launch an "event". To make sure that it will be an event they need to keep it all secret. If they keep it all secret then it doesn't get tested properly, until after it has been released.

So, engineering can blame marketing for this one, too ;)
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 17 Jul 2010, 18:54, closed)

I think when it gets to the point that you've spent +500 quid on a phone that fails at phone calls - Ha Ha...
(Benzyl, Sun 18 Jul 2010, 3:51, closed)

Seriously...
I've had one since launch, never dropped a call in an area where my old phone would have had signal, only dropped a call in my kitchen, where you'd need military-grade hardware to get a signal anyway (walled garden, foot thick walls and rural location...).

It was a glitch in the software that mis-reported the signal in certain situations. Compare that to the Nokia n900s my old office tried to palm off on it's workers that crashed at least once a day, or the Android phones my mates tell me are great for messing around with but which have as much regard for app software QA as Ryanair does for passenger satisfaction and, really, I think I'll stick with the iPhone.

I'm not a fanboy, but I have to say I really like my iPhone 4. I understand that a lot of PC fanboys hate iTunes and iPods, but really, if a minor bug that is easily remedied is enough to get these gimps baying for Jobs' blood, maybe they should look at the wonders of the Microsoft camp...Microsoft Bob, Windows ME, Vista, Windows Mobile (any version), the Zune, that latest PoS mobile that lasted for about a week... you name it, MS can blow it.

It's only headline news because Apple's stuff usually works flawlessly to all intents and purposes.

On a related note, how come there wasn't a backlash when Intel released a bunch of Pentium IIIs that couldn't add up (broken FPUs)? Oh, that's right - people expect PC components to be cheap junk, built down to a cost...
(Chad, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 17:41, closed)