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Same goes for people who pre-ordered the n900 or any other device that has a pre-order date.
The n900 and most other devices are not hidden away from press and reporters to the extent this phone was. Details about the N900 were available for months, many tech writers had preproduction units to test. This is the case with most serious stuff. People that preordered them had access to independent reviews and lots of detailed information. (I might have bought earlier, but I had to wait two months for my AT&T contract to end.)

Apple kept this phone top secret. People still bought it in droves. Congrats to Apple for that, but I think anyone who bought today made a silly move.
 

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#132
Well, Apple just came up with this near-flawless implementation of mobile antenna for super-thin smartphones with a minor bug.

Now they're just crowd-sourcing the world for the fix.
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Most of iPhone users are using a case anyways, so I dont think this is going to be a such a big problem for end users.

But it cant be denied that this is major design flaw. If Apple had announced that "We designed the antenna this way. You just have to use a case." It would had been accetable: it would had been a decision. Now it is a bad misstake.
 

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#134
Originally Posted by rmerren View Post
The n900 and most other devices are not hidden away from press and reporters to the extent this phone was. Details about the N900 were available for months, many tech writers had preproduction units to test. This is the case with most serious stuff. People that preordered them had access to independent reviews and lots of detailed information. (I might have bought earlier, but I had to wait two months for my AT&T contract to end.)

Apple kept this phone top secret. People still bought it in droves. Congrats to Apple for that, but I think anyone who bought today made a silly move.
I'm pretty sure no one noticed the usb issue on the n900 before it actually came out. Gizmodo also had this new iPhone as well as some random Vietnamese website.
 
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Originally Posted by rmerren View Post
The n900 and most other devices are not hidden away from press and reporters to the extent this phone was. Details about the N900 were available for months, many tech writers had preproduction units to test. This is the case with most serious stuff. People that preordered them had access to independent reviews and lots of detailed information. (I might have bought earlier, but I had to wait two months for my AT&T contract to end.)

Apple kept this phone top secret. People still bought it in droves. Congrats to Apple for that, but I think anyone who bought today made a silly move.
B-b-but they collaborated with Giz...

(jk)

To Apple's credit, they almost always provide good customer service and support if something is wrong with their product.

Now the question is.. Will they admit to this flaw or not? (I think they'll pit an interesting spin on this.)
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If Apple had said "we designed it this way, but you have to have a case". I would ask so why put on the unscractchable toughened (and expensive) glass if you need to put it in a case?

They got this wrong and were too far into pre-production etc to avoid this - the bumpers are their first attempt to ride the wave of bad publicity.

Lots of people think Apple's metronomic release schedules are a good thing - this just shows why maybe they are not. We will see if ipads general uselessness and this clusterf... might take some of the gleam off the apple aura.
 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8761240.stm



Funny read....

as a follow up to yesterdays iphone4 signal issue.


Saying that last night our friend round for a dinner party had an iphone4 with him and i would never pay £200 then contract of £40 per month for the device.... improvements mainly to the casing user wise on screen if you had an old iphone ... stick with it imo !

well have fun reading back to work now and my second coffee of the day
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Too bad there's instructions on this site that explain how you might want to hold your phone when you unplug your Nokia N900 to avoid the micro USB from falling out.

Those that live in glass houses should honestly never throw stones. Design flaws unfortunately exist in consumer products. Sucks for the customer, sucks that it happens, shows that companies don't really don't test in real-world situations fully.
 
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better dont touch the i phone 4 in any area.lol
 
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instead of offering apologies apple is selling rubber case to customers.good steve job
 
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