{"id":1620,"date":"2010-06-24T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2010-10-30T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T10:08:21","slug":"iphone-4-reception-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesgroom.me\/blog\/iphone-4-reception-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4 Reception Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK so I have been catching up on all the things\/stuff about the iPhone 4.<\/p>\n<p>Some have been reporting reception issues with there iPhone 4 going from Full\/4 Bars Service down to nothing but strangely enough they are still able to make calls.<\/p>\n<p>So now it comes all down to these few things<\/p>\n<p>1. Is it the Antenna on the outside?<br \/>\n2. Is it a simple software bug that needs ironing out?<br \/>\n3. Is it a bad design mainly the Antenna on the outside?<br \/>\n4. Is it the Telco at fault?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really hard one to tell mainly because the iPhone 4 hasn&#8217;t hit Australia yet but we will see what happens when it hits the Australian shores to see if it happens in Australia as well.<\/p>\n<p>There are some YouTube videos of people having these issues and you can view them below.<\/p>\n<p>The other question would be could it just be a bad batch going around since it is in the early stages of being released lets hope so I don&#8217;t think there would be too many happy customers out there unable to use there iPhone 4 to the way they would like with some of these issues that have been popping up however as I said could just be a bad patch or even maybe reception issues in there location.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is something that might fix this issue until the bug has been ironed out and that is a iPhone 4 bumper (rubber case) for the phone and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the iPhone 4 case <a class=\"error\" href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/product\/MC597\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a Danish Professor who&#8217;s an expert in Antenna&#8217;s says the antenna&#8217;s on the outside of phone can cause a lot of issues. You can read the article by going <a class=\"error\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.dk\/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=da&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=1&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comon.dk%2Fnyheder%2FEr-iPhone-4-foedt-med-antenne-problemer-1.362104.html&amp;sl=da&amp;tl=en\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some videos<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/-ixIHyEPO5g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/-ixIHyEPO5g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/YYlGQyylCTk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/YYlGQyylCTk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can read a bit more in detail about this issue by visiting <a class=\"error\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2010\/06\/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you-hold-it-by-the-antenna-band\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[gigpress_shows]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK so I have been catching up on all the things\/stuff about the iPhone 4. 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