{"id":415,"date":"2010-07-16T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:24:37","slug":"antennagate-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Antennagate Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I woke up at 10AM this morning (isn’t life great for a full time student?) to read through the live blog of the Apple press conference over at Endgadget, you can look at it here<\/a>. And I thought it was quite hilarious.<\/p>\n

First Steve Jobs started out saying that it wasn’t a problem he compared the signal loss issue to a blackberry bold 9700, the samsung Omnia 2, and the Droid Eris. According to Mr. Jobs all three of these phones showed sizeable signal drops by holding the phone in a similar manner to that which causes the iPhone 4 problem. Unfortunately I do not have any of those phones to test with but I do have a Nexus One.<\/p>\n

So as I was reading this I whipped out my phone and started trying to grab it in all manner of awkward ways. He said it would take a while because other phones report this stuff very slowly,so I was sitting there holding my phone in different ways for quite a while. After about 5 minutes of trying I found that if I held my Nexus One with both hands completely covering the bottom portion of the phone I got it to go from 4 bars to 3 bars. Unfortunately I could not figure a way to do it with one hand so I will post a picture if my girlfriend is willing to take a picture of me holding my phone like an idiot. I advise you to not wait for that picture because I doubt she will want to waste her time doing that.<\/p>\n

Hopefully she won’t mind when I grab her iPhone 3G and start holding it like an idiot trying to get the signal to go down. I have had a 3G and a 3GS in the past and never noticed any problems when I used it without a case, but I am right handed. But anyways then I will truly see if Steve Jobs was telling the truth about this being common to all iPhones!<\/p>\n

Then Steve Jobs went into some other stuff that had to do with numbers of complaints and junk which was totally stupid. everyone knows that if .55% of 3 million people are calling to complain about the problem then like 5% of people probably have the problem haha. But I will let you read the live blog or possibly watch the video if it appears somewhere. I think Steve Jobs’s uses of some choice words in reference to a Bloomberg article will probably stop it from appearing on apple.com.<\/p>\n

Anyways I just want to say that in this situation is totally agree with Steve Jobs’s first assessment. This really is a non-issue. if I had an iPhone 4 I would have walked out of the store with a case or bought one as soon as one was available, and then I never would have experienced the issue. But I kind of like seeing Apple in the spotlight for a negative issue every once in a while. But really, in the long run this won’t matter, 3 million people have the phone in their hands right now and the everyone that I have seen LOVES it. And I must say I am VERY jealous of that screen.<\/p>\n

Peace out ya’ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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