Recently, more and more people complain that the Antenna that iPhone4 is proud of has a fatal flaw. When user tightly holds the iPhone 4 smartphone for a while, the signal of the iPhone 4 will loose rapidly. But, Apple states that, “You are holding the phone the wrong way, and just avoid holding it in that way”. A few days later, Apple has to face this big problem, and responds to iPhone 4 antenna problem.
A lot of users complained that if they held iPhone 4 in their left hands, iPhone 4 will loose signal strength. It means that if your hand covers the bottom-left corner of the phone and bridge the gap between the notches there with your naked flesh, the phone’s signal strength drops.
There are the pictures shows that how the iPhone 4 signal drops. When we held the phone in front of us in our left hand with our fingers touching the metal band, the bars representing signal strength dropped from 5 to 1 in less than a minute.
The signal of Apple iPhone 4 is full at fisrt.
The signal of Apple iPhone 4 drops gradualiy.
There is no signal on Apple iPhone 4.
However, Apple explained by the following reason: a gap between two antennas wrapped around its exterior that could be bridged by a finger placed in the wrong spot.
What’s more, Apple also explained it in this way, “Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong,” Apple’s letter read. “Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.”
Some users said that if iPhone 4 is covered by a $29 rubber “Bumper Case”, the signal dropping problem will be not so obvious. Has Apple already known that there is problem related to the iPhone 4 antenna, and do they just want to solve this problem by the “Bumper Case”?
With the heavy pressure from their customers, Apple Apple will ship a software update for the iPhone 4, and its earlier iPhone 3G and 3GS, that will display accurate signal strengths “within a few weeks.” And if users are not satisfied with this decisions, and ss long as there is no damage in the case of iPhone 4 at any time within 30 days of purchase, users can go to any Apple retail or online store returns the iPhone 4 and receive a full refund.
iPhone 4 antenna problem may lead to a number of large-scale return flows, the overall sales for iPhone4 may cause greater impact, especially in the United States and other mainstream market. And iPhone 4 antenna problem will create opportunity for Apple’s competitors.