OT: More iPhone madness - the "fix"

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Mark Luljak propounded (on Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:36:35PM -0400):
>| http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/02/technology/iphone_update/?hpt=P1&iref=NS1
>| 
>| Watching this train wreck is entertaining, to say the least.  I laughed out
>| loud when I read the part about changing the first three bars to make them
>| taller so they'd be "easier to see".  I read that as, "If it looks bigger,
>| they'll think it's not so unacceptable."
>
>On NPR's "Car Talk", Click and Clack suggest taking care of an annoying
>warning light on a car's dashboard with black electrical tape. :-)

Depending on the warning light, that could make sense.

>Apple is now suggesting that the shorting of the two antennas by a human
>touch has no particular consequence beyond being badly represented in the
>five-bar display. :-(
>
>Is Apple under attack because the signal-strength indicator has been
>flawed through several generations of the iPhone, or is there actually
>some serious annoying degradation in the quality of a connection when
>one's fingers touch the "sweet" spot?

Most of the serious reviews and evaluations of this that I've
read have said that it's not that common, some even saying they
had to work at it to see degradation.  Of course there are some
Land Sharks jumping on the bandwagon with class action law suits
for what that's worth.

I tend to take these with a grain of salt, not having personal
experience with the iPhone.  When I pick up my iPod Touch in my
left hand using Skype, or other things, typically I have it
with my thumb and two fingers gripping it in the upper third of
the case with the bottom 2/3rds on the left open which probably
wouldn't affect the signal.  As I said at the beginning of this
thread, I would use a case to protect the iPhone when (not if) I
drop it, as I have had with the iPod Touch since I got it.

Bill
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