Apple's bulletin boards are starting to fill up with yet another problem with Apple's expensive and broken iPhone iFlaw.
Not content with shipping a phone that cuts you off if you use it in your left hand, and then lying about the problem being a minor display issue, it now turns out that the proximity sensor does not work.
The phone is supposed to tell if you are holding the phone to your ear.
Users said that the iPhone sensor works when you cover it with your finger but has a problem when it comes close to an Apple fanboy's face.
The screen blinks as if it cannot decide to disable the screen or enable it. It hangs up calls, puts them on mute, and dials numbers accidentally while the user is on the phone.
One user said that it occurs on 90 percent of his calls.
Another said that Apple need to fix this problem as it is making the phone unusable.
One person claimed to have a fix by resetting the phone. But he warns that resetting all loses a lot of settings, not just all wi-fi. It removes all website logins, all clock settings, all mail setup (except the accounts) and more.
It seems to us that it is time for Apple and its legion of fanboys to realise that the overpriced iPhone 4 is broken and needs to be recalled and fixed. Of course it is not going to happen, people will queue for a dog turd if it has an Apple logo on it. It would be nice if, just this once, the government stepped in to save Apple fanboys from themselves and ordered Jobs' Mob to stop flogging dodgy gear that does not work.
Yet another problem with the iPhone4
And still you queue
Apple's bulletin boards http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2475509 are starting to fill up with yet another problem with Apple's expensive and broken iPhone Flaw.
Not content with shipping a phone that cuts you off if you use it in your left hand, and then lying about the problem being a minor display issue, it now turns out that the proximity sensor does not work.
The phone is supposed to tell if you are holding the phone to your ear.
Users said that the iPhone sensor works when you cover it with your finger but has a problem when it comes close to an Apple fanboy's face.
The screen blinks as if it cannot decide to disable the screen or enable it. It hangs up calls, puts them on mute, and dials numbers accidentally while the user is on the phone.
One user said that it occurs on 90 per cent of his calls.
Another said that Apple need to fix this problem as it is making the phone unusable.
One person claimed to have a fix by resetting the phone. But I should warn people that resetting all loses a lot of settings, not just all Wi-fi. It removes all website logins, all clock settings, all mail setup (except the accounts) and more.
It seems to us that it is time for Apple and its legion of fanboys to realise that the overpriced iPhone 4 is broken and needs to be recalled and fixed. Of course it is not going to happen, people will queue for a dog turd if it has an Apple logo on it. It would be nice if, just this one, the government stepped in to save Apple fanboys from themselves and ordered Jobs Mob to stop flogging dodgy gear that does not work.
I'm having proximity sensor issues on my 3G. Hopefully Apple will very quickly provide an update.
However, I'd like to state when an organisation admit such flaws - it should be recognised that they actually admit something is wrong and they are trying to fix it.
I've read no praise from any iPhone4 users regarding any of the above flaws - all I hear is that they're miffed at the product they bought. I don't blame them but they have to give someone a chance to fix it before they flame about it!
People seem to be totally needlessly dividing themselves over this. I've had people in pubs salivating over my phone, but to me it's a lovely phone, has pros and cons compared to my previous blackberry bold, but it's not that much of a revolutionary update, I don't think.
But yes, the fruityco iphoney number four is, like all other fruityco products, a defective piece of junk, suitable only for technical ignorati and self-pretentious gits.
" It would be nice if, just this once, the government stepped in to save Apple fanboys from themselves and ordered Jobs' Mob to stop flogging dodgy gear that does not work."
There's really no need if you're in the UK, the sale of goods act will cover that just fine.
Your statutory rights are well worth knowing. :)
Do people really not see the problem with being patronized by a phone? Keep creating excuses from something that's flawed and allows people to disillusion themselves by a shiny object?
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Nah you've got it slightly wrong - the sensor is to detect when you've got the phone next to your face/ear so that the touch screen is temporarily disabled (So you don't press the end call button with your earlobe, for example..
"Do people really not see the problem with being patronized by a phone? Keep creating excuses from something that's flawed and allows people to disillusion themselves by a shiny object?"
I totally agree, all the so called 'revolutionary features' are not really. It doesn't multitask (If I told you I could ride a unicycle and juggle at the same time, but then when it came to it, I rode the unicycle for a bit, and then swpped over and juggled for a bit, and so on you'd be less impressed...)
The 'retina-resolution' screen actually isn't ('Well, most people don't have perfect eyesight' is the justification for that..) and the 'revolutionary' Face time seems to me to be the same video calling I've had on phones since about 2007 (and never had the urge to use, I might add....)
I've currently got a Nokia N900 and I love it. Not really one for the average consumer - more of a palm sized netbook than a phone....
The ones who made the mistake to buy the first release will have to learn how to hold the phone, all the rest should wait a little bit and I'm sure apple will come up with a fix in the hardware soon.
Until then, there are plenty of options to fix the problem:
http://mobilespoon.blogspot.com/2010/06/iphone-4-fixed-sort-of.html
One of them is to get an Android phone and use iPhone 4 as an entertainment tool
Looks like a case of the emperors new clothes the more expensive apple prices a crappy product to more morons think it's worth...