Why I am returning my iphone 4
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From: smurf on 29 Jun 2010 16:33 Let me just get it out of the way, i am an apple fan, I love the Iphone range of phones. -- I dismissed the reports of signal issues as exaggeration and apple baiting. I love the iphone, had the original and the 3g. I use them extensively for mobileme and exchange server support. Tried many phones, but iphone is my favourite. Got the new iphone 4 yesterday. I opened it up, it looked amazing, it felt amazing. I turned it on and it crashed before the OS loaded. All I got was a corrupted apple. Hard shutdown, took out sim put it back in it boots fine. Connect to iTunes and it activates. Connect to wireless network, set up my mobileme and exchange server. Get a bright blue screen and reboot, seems to work fine after reboot. Play around for an hour and notice the signal really drops massively when held in right or left hand. To the point that even when it shows bars it wont ring. Tested it out, when placed down on table phone rings without problem. Pick up phone and calls go to voicemail. This is despite the reception having full bars and 3g connection when laying on table. After a while the phone reboots itself again, this time however it sets itself into some recovery mode which requires the phone to be connected up to iTunes, the software downloaded and restored back onto it. After a few hours of fiddling around and failings it eventually reboots back into normality. The phone hasn't rebooted since, however using it as a phone is pretty much a pointless task. My phone is getting returned to Orange. Iphone without reception issue five star, with reception issue 1/2 a star. In its present stage it is unusable.
From: Adrian C on 29 Jun 2010 19:09 On 29/06/2010 21:33, smurf wrote: > > In its present stage it is unusable. > Wait for the second wave. The OS may be rev 4 and the iPhone 4 may have gained many new hardware features, but there is very different engineering, production processes and new materials that haven't seen much real user magical playtime experience yet. -- Adrian C
From: andy on 29 Jun 2010 20:53 On 30 June, 00:09, Adrian C <em...(a)here.invalid> wrote: > On 29/06/2010 21:33, smurf wrote: > > > > > In its present stage it is unusable. > > Wait for the second wave. > > The OS may be rev 4 and the iPhone 4 may have gained many new hardware > features, but there is very different engineering, production processes > and new materials that haven't seen much real user magical playtime > experience yet. > > -- > Adrian C Overblown nonsense like this really doesn't help Users don't need to experience production processes It's the hands-on experience that counts, unless one takes Steve Jobs' advice not to put your hands on it
From: J B on 30 Jun 2010 02:38 "smurf" <smurf(a)smurf.com> wrote in message news:88v3m1Fv14U1(a)mid.individual.net... > Let me just get it out of the way, i am an apple fan, I love the Iphone > range of phones. <huge snip> Shock horror. Person buys broken electrical product and is not happy! ;-) -- J B
From: Adrian C on 30 Jun 2010 07:53
On 30/06/2010 01:53, andy wrote: > On 30 June, 00:09, Adrian C<em...(a)here.invalid> wrote: >> On 29/06/2010 21:33, smurf wrote: >> >> >> >>> In its present stage it is unusable. >> >> Wait for the second wave. >> >> The OS may be rev 4 and the iPhone 4 may have gained many new hardware >> features, but there is very different engineering, production processes >> and new materials that haven't seen much real user magical playtime >> experience yet. > > Overblown nonsense like this really doesn't help But it's language that Apple users are mostly compatible with.... "Magical..." It's a totally new phone in my book. Mass produced and bound to have a few teething problems. Yes, 'production processes' is relevent - most other phones are not manufactured like it, and the initial yellowing of the front glass was an unexpected experience for some. Hands on experience at the moment is ... "hey, I've got my hands on an expensive iPhone 4. Hey look at me!" that is until they get the bugs ironed out. Then I want one! -- Adrian C |