iPhone 4 death-touch risks known for 1 to 2 years?
As part of the fallout from Mark Papermaster’s exit from Apple, a couple of reports have surfaced indicating Apple knew about the potential for iPhone 4 antenna “death-touch” (detuning at the spot on the lower left side) for 1 to 2 years prior to launch.
The Wall Street Journal claims one year:
It was Mr. [...]
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Papermaster’s exit from Apple was cultural, not iPhone 4 specific
The Wall Street Journal (and the often informed Yukari Iwatani Kane) are reporting that while it’s unknown how much iPhone 4 antennagate and white iPhone 4 delays played in SVP of mobile hardware, Mark Papermaster’s exit from Apple, there were broader cultural issues at play:
Mr. Papermaster had lost the confidence of Mr. Jobs [...]
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Mark Papermaster, head of iPhone hardware, leaves Apple
Mark Papermaster, whose departure from IBM for Apple led to some high profile legal wrangling, has now left Apple — chronologically following the antennagate saga, though no direct correlation has been reported. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the New York Times:
[Papermaster] is leaving the company and Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh [...]
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So does your international iPhone 4 have death-grip or death-touch?
One of the lingering questions surrounding iPhone 4 and the whole “antennagate” saga is just how much, if any, of the problem could be blamed on the traditional network whipping boy, AT&T. Sure, you could reduce or kill iPhone 4 data and voice reception by gripping it firmly around the base to attenuate the signal [...]
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Scoble death-grips Android Captivate before Apple
We’re guessing Apple will get an AT&T Captivate (or similar Samsung Galaxy S-class device) death-grip video up sooner or later, but in the meantime… Scoble to the rescue!
He shows both devices in the same area on the same network dropping bars and, he says, calls. We get it. Manufacturers aren’t perfect. Phones aren’t perfect. [...]
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