http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/maybe Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen is thinking about this wrong?]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Uh, no, not until it gets fixed and iPhone owners get more than "hold it differently"]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/:o]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/My solution post are disappearing]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/this is just an example of why nothing good comes out of rushed products. It amazing apple didnt find this hardware problem. yet this phone is probably still going to sell millions. I dont know how steve does it?]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/yhea that is true but i guess people would expect more from Apple. There also one of the first to fix a hardware problem with 4 words
Iphone 4 = itouch 4g
8^(]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Prof Gert Frølund Pedersen doesn't have a good handle on this problem.

Steve Jobs.

Sent from my brand new iPho......]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/yup, hold it with the "iPhone Vulcan Pinch" ]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
It wasn't lost in a bar that time. He couldn't get a reception and gave up on it.
Either that or he held it wrong and dropped it (no more than 3 times). ]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Also, to all the people out there saying "this is why we're better", do you remember when the Nexus One had the same problem, and it was fixed in a software update? Why are none of the Phandroids mentioning that?
http://phandroid.com/2010/02/12/nexus-one-still-has-3g-issues/
It was also all over the Nexus One support forums.
Oh, and how's that App Kill Switch treating you?
]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
The iPhone update will fix the problem, even the 3GS after this update does the same thing the iPhone 4 does. All these people are probably hired by adobe to trash apple. ]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Y'see, Jimmy, that's one of the nice things about Android. I have more than 1 phone a year to choose from. So even if the Nexus was having an issue with reception, I can use any of about 25-30 different Android phones, just in the USA. So... your point is what?]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
It's not just a random occurrence, and it's not something that can be fixed with a firmware update. (unless they make the phone lie about hoe much signal it has)]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/why do people ask such stupid questions]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
NARF!!! ]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/The answer is clear, and Apple already addressed it. THE BUMPER! HAHHA The ingenious Steve Jobs makes you wow at the new phone, and makes you bend over to buy the bumper.]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
SUE MAN SUE!!!]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Because iSheep treat it like a device from cuppertino heaven. Ohhh the iPhone, ohhh shiny object, squirrel! ]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/I can see this being colorware's new tagline for the iPhone4
]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
it doesn't matter, the antenna design is still flawed and needs to be redesigned. I have a 3GS with iOS4 and it does NOT have the same issue, as it doesn't expose the antenna like iPhone4.]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/ Gert Frølund Pedersen is my friends uncle

small world...]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 26th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/That's why the bumpers were published in the same day. Imagine 10m bumpers sold at $30 when the real cost is arround $2 or $3 . ;) Just great, Oh yeah they'll ship it and thank you =)

People will end putting something to avoid touching the antenna and buy a lot of phones cos steve and the marketing team are really great.

I'll probably buy an iphone 4 anyway cos a droid X will cost me arround $900 here in Argentina and the iphone 4 arround $500... And apps for iphone sell a lot more than for android by now.

Probably getting a $5 chinese bumper cos the $30 apple bumper will cost me like $50 or $60]]>Jun 26th 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/"Oh, and how's that App Kill Switch treating you?"

Fine, and yours?]]>Jun 26th 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
I can't wait to get my iPhone 4 in Alberta on Fido and have none of the problems everyone gets so hysterical about, just like the last time I got an iPhone that had none of the problems everyone got hysterical about.]]>Jun 27th 2010 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/So you're willing to purchase a phone every month for an entire year.....LOSER! you'll end up paying more than $2000 dollars on phones alone, when you can just buy a bumper for $29 and solve the issue...]]>Jun 27th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
hey engadget one of your readers pointed this out dayd ago when you posted the first story. Im sure its been said but stlll...a bit of a fail. ]]>Jun 27th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/

Dude, once you drink Steve's coolaid, there's no going back or so I heard. ]]>Jun 27th 2010 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 27th 2010 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Because Apple has become the trendiest company to sell smartphones and answers its clients by a "it's you fault" or a "buy something more"]]>Jun 27th 2010 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Jun 27th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/The new ad campaign:
http://i45.tinypic.com/20kqexd.jpg]]>Jun 27th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/It's cool. I just put one of these in my Iphone4 and everything works fine.

http://bit.ly/b8XQyP

]]>Jun 27th 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Maybe the professor should "Think different" ]]>Jun 27th 2010 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
"MIND THE GAP!"]]>Jun 27th 2010 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
major rule of marketing - always stress your weakest point as your main asset. plenty of real world examples, like "quality is job 1" at ford in the 90s. Simple human instinct is to seek middle ground (for a lot of reasons - i won't go deeply into the psychology behind it). if our X sucks and we say that our X is the best, most people will say "ah, it's not so bad..." and find reasons to believe it.

just marketing. they had a problem, so they had to stress it as a plus.]]>Jun 27th 2010 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
So Apple can change the laws of physics with a simple firmware update? They must be on to something! Better expand it to more than just iPhones.]]>Jun 27th 2010 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/Yeah that's very true. Just get an 'Apple Bumper' for $30 and end up paying even more. Ultimately Apple win. Good marketing tactic if your are Apple. :)]]>Jun 27th 2010 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Really, he meant that...]]>Jun 27th 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/iphone-4-antenna-problems-were-predicted-on-june-10-by-danish-pr/
Are trolling or genuinely delusional? How could the iPhone's software possibly detect whether your finger is in a non-touch sensitive corner and change accordingly? It's obviously a hardware problem because that exact same spot is where the two antennae are separated by a thin seam. The 'bridging' via skin conductivity isn't pseudoscience, it's real.

There isn't a possible update fix for this. The only solution is to go back to the drawing board and re-arranage the antennae OR use non-conducting materials around the edge OR use a bumper. the 3GS's problems with iOS is just another can of worms, thankfully THAT issue is probably one that can be fixed via firmware.]]>Jun 27th 2010 5:58AM