Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

the question is no which device is better, but what Apple would od about this "bug". The question is who gives better support. As no bugs in Nokia fixed, let's see hower Apple would treat their customers

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

With N900, it's "SOME USB ports fall out". We can just claim it's a manufacturer error. Wait, we already did.

Yes, it's a bitter thread. But we've had our fun on the device when it worked fine, we can't go back now that it had flaws. It's a moral obligation.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

Yep! Its fine, its on the iphone 4 thread.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

No need to get bitter y'all... I covered that in the thread tags for all.

"haters gone hate" = h8'ers gon' h8
"worst thread ever" = worstthreadever

There's actually a lot of good information in this thread and the other iPhone 4 thread about the bad decision(s) and lack of testing via the FCC on the impedance due to no hands on the devices during testing.

Makes for an interesting read sans bitterness. It's a goof. The microUSB, this... I think everybody is just rushing stuff to the market.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

I had a feeling that it would reduce reception but not cut it out altogether due to the remaining bits of the exposed attenna.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

The microUSB issue makes you think it was rushed why? Not everyone has the MicroUSB issue, it's obviously a manufacture error. Mine is quite sturdy, I've plugged and unplugged the phone at least 300 times since, and it's sturdy enough to hold the phone horizontally by the charger.

It is as sturdy if not more so than the small pin-sized Nokia charger I've had in N80.

It also hits me I'm offtopic. So, like, boo Apple or something.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

The fact I have a N810, have plugged in my microUSB quite a few times and never had it pop out, nor has anybody on these boards versus a 1400+ reply thread for the N900 and the woes of getting support from Nokia.

Dunno man. If that's not a possible error due to manufacturing, thus what I categorized as a goof, then what is it considered? It has happened more than once, they had to actually fix the motherboard soldering for it, just like Apple will have to fix this too...

I will have to call it a design problem. Just because it didn't happen to everybody doesn't make it a goof or rushed/improperly tested product. Not all of the Sony batteries exploded, but they sure as hell called all of those back.

And the people that stated as you had that it hadn't had happened to them, it sooner than later did in some cases. I hope it truly does not happen to you though man. That would suck.

For the iPhone 4, I'd probably throw it in a case and be done with that. No touchy the stainless sides and I'm good.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

Well, there are design flaws, and there are design flaws.
I imagine something like a loose USB connector can be addressed in future manufacturing runs. Its effect is not pretty at all, but actually it's quite a minor flaw, having to do with component selection.
I don't see an easy solution for Apples situation though... This looks to me like a major conceptual flaw.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

Are we sure that these iPhones with this problem aren't prototypes or early production models?

Related to this, where can I find out if the N900 is currently being manufactured in a different way compared to how it was manufactured around release?

I'm just waiting for my phone to go in for repairs for the third time, but am skeptical whether a new device will solve my prob. Im suffering from the low/no volume in earpiece bug.

Re: iPhone 4 - Loses Reception When You Touch the Side (Who says Apple products are "Better Quality"?)
 

BGR singing a different tune after more information is gathered:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...-software-bug/

I guess the antenna design is SO GOOD AFTERALL that it performs much better than it can internally be measured :D