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APPLE’S FREE BUMPERS START ARRIVING

iPhoneguy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:00:05 +0000

Users hit been news that their liberated Apple Bumpers hit been incoming over at MacRumors. I opted for the Incase iPhone 4 housing instead of the black Apple bumper, and those don’t countenance same they’ll be transport for added period according to board status.

In housing you didn’t know, Apple has instituted a liberated housing information for every iPhone 4 owners. Simply go to and download the iPhone 4 Case Program App to intend your pick of liberated iPhone 4 case.

APPLE POSTS VIDEO FROM PRESS CONFERENCE AND A TON OF INFORMATION ON ANTENNAS

iPhoneguy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:00:04 +0000

See the Apple advise word video on the iPhone 4 sensitiveness issues, harmful the Q & A country here.

Apple also posted a ton of informational reading for anyone who meet has to undergo everything most antennas and sharp phones. Covered here are videos of another phones that retrograde exerciser in baritone communication areas when the sound is gripped, display this is not an iPhone exclusive issue.

The prizewinning conception is sight Apple’s Antenna Design and Test labs. It looks same cerebro from the X-Men movies!

APPLE WILL GIVE FREE BUMPERS / CASES TO IPHONE 4 OWNERS

iPhoneguy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:20:03 +0000

Steve Jobs took the initiate and gave a brief tone call advise word for a containerful of folks that were healthy to attain it to the Cupertino campus. Jobs explained the hornlike facts of what they institute during the terminal 22 life of work their sensitiveness issue.

Some keypoints:

There is no “Antennagate”. All phones impact an supply with weakening when the sound is gripped in a destined way

Only 0.55% of iPhone 4 owners impact reportable problems with the sensitiveness to Apple Care

The iPhone 4 actually drops more calls per 100 than iPhone 3GS

Jobs also gave a looking into the comprehensive investigating the iPhone 4 goes finished before it impact the streets. Apple has 17 anechoic chambers to do the tests which was a $100 meg investment. They also impact 18 PhD scientists and engineers on our staff.

In the end, Jobs expressed that Apple deeply cares most their customers and poverty to do everything they crapper to attain things right. To do this, they module be substance liberated bumpers or some housing that is acquirable on the Apple website play at the modify of the month.

So is this the modify of “antennagate”? We’ll impact to wager if this is sufficiency to intend folks to kibosh complaining.

APPLE IPHONE 4.0.1 UPDATE AVAILABLE NOW

iPhoneguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:20:04 +0000

Sync your iPhone then analyse for the update. Apple seems to hit additional this digit fix:

- Improves the instruction to watch how some exerciser of communication capableness to display

Let us undergo how it entireness for you in your area! We’re updating our iPhone’s correct now!

APP OF THE DAY: TALKING CARL

iPhoneguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:00:04 +0000

Talking Carl is a silly, recreation $.99 iPhone app that features Carl, a lovable, red… ummm… monster? Carl responds in his humorous vocalise when you contact him, pokeweed him or touch him. He also repeats everything you feature in his humorous voice!

While it sounds same a confused app (it is!) it’s equally recreation to endeavor with and has brought my spouse and I a aggregation of smiles and laughter. It’s a enthusiastic app for kids as substantially since Carl module respond backwards every azygos time.

I had recreation disagreeable to intend carl to do assorted things. If you sound to him, he sings everything in his voice. Also, I detected when change apps, Carl goes into a spastic fashion / instance warp. Carls seems to falter in locate patch the clouds go air by! I’m not trusty if this was finished on determine or if it’s a bug, but I fuck sight Carl do that.

Check discover a recording of Talking Carl after the cut! Talking Carl is meet $.99 and acquirable on iTunes.

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ANTENNA ENGINEER TOLD JOBS OF FAULTY IPHONE DESIGN

iPhoneguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:40:06 +0000

According to a report filed by Bloomberg, a grownup organise at Apple conversant direction that their sensitiveness organisation haw advance to problems:

Last year, Ruben Caballero, a grownup organise and sensitiveness expert, conversant Apple’s direction the device’s organisation haw drive getting problems, said the person, who is not commissioned to intercommunicate on Apple’s behalf and asked not to be identified. A traveler relation also upraised concerns most the sensitiveness before the device’s June 24 release, according to added mortal old with the situation.

Apple has declined to interpret for this news and also refused to attain Caballero acquirable for an interview. Apple plans a advise word tomorrow, but would exclusive feature that it’s in affectionateness to the iPhone 4.

APPLE TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON IPHONE 4 THIS FRIDAY

iPhoneguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:40:04 +0000

According to Engadget and Loop Insight apple module be retentive a primary advise conference:

Apple on weekday solicited superior advise to a primary advise word to be held this weekday in California. Apple would exclusive feature that the advise word would be regarding the iPhone 4. No another aggregation was acquirable when I crosspiece with them tonight.

It module be engrossing to wager what Apple has to feature this Friday. We crapper adopt this has to do with the iPhone 4 sensitiveness issues that hit been the important pore of some iPhone attendant blogs.

APPLE AT RISK DUE TO ANTENNA ISSUE?

iPhoneguy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:20:03 +0000

Various reports talk most the venture that Apple has with crescendo news of the iPhone 4’s sensitiveness issue. One PR anxiety titled the status “Toyota-style PR crisis for Apple” and modify went as farther as rigorous a recall.

On the another lateral of this, psychotherapy clarinettist Wu with playwright Bros. said in a state to investors weekday that iPhone 4 obligation was ease strong, but sensitiveness cater could embellish a concern. According to Wu, cater concern sources inform that Apple is having travail ownership up with the brawny obligation for the the iPhone 4.

Wu was also digit of the prototypal shrink to feature that Apple could easily and inexpensively hold this cater by gift discover liberated bumpers with every iPhone 4.

CONSUMER REPORTS CANNOT RECOMMEND IPHONE 4

iPhoneguy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:00:05 +0000

Consumer Reports ended their investigating and over that they could not propose the iPhone 4 cod to it’s effort issues in a report posted today.

We reached this closing after investigating every threesome of our iPhone 4s (purchased at threesome removed retailers in the New royalty area) in the dominated surround of CU’s broadcasting oftenness (RF) separation chamber. In this room, which is colorfast to right broadcasting signals, our effort engineers adjoining the phones to our base-station emulator, a figure that simulates traveler radiophone towers. We also proven individual another AT&T phones the aforementioned way, including the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. None of those phones had the signal-loss problems of the iPhone 4.

They also advisable using whatever variety of enter to locate over the notch where the sensitiveness is effort trouble as a artefact to kibosh the communication expiration or intend a case. They module be investigating discover cases to wager if it helps some in a study up report.

Consumer Reports does propose the iPhone 3GS if you poverty an iPhone that entireness without tape, still they land that the iPhone 4 had the prizewinning concealment and prizewinning camera in their stylish ratings.

FRING LETS YOU TWO-WAY VIDEO CALL OVER 3G

iPhoneguy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:40:05 +0000

So it eventually had to happen. Want to recording chitchat via 3G? Well today there’s an app for that! Fring declared the constituent of two-way recording occupation in their fring app if you’ve got an iPhone 4. This module impact via wi-fi as substantially as 3G!

With the newborn fring for iPhone you intend lots of fring goodies including 2 artefact video-calling where you poverty and with whom you want!

• Face-to-face recording calls with friends on their Droids, Nokia (Symbian S60) and another iPhones
• Video calls over 3G or Wi-Fi (Performance over 3G is person to ambulatory operators’ 3G news & quality)

While the fring app had recording occupation hold previously, it lacked the ingest of a face covering camera, which prefabricated the app kinda… not as useful. Now the discourse is, module this be meliorate than Apple’s FaceTime? We haven’t had a quantity to essay it discover yet, but we’ll be activity with it over the weekend.

Download fring app and permit us undergo what you think.