Category: Cellphones
Verizon Website Can Cut Your Phone Cost If You Know The Trick
The Consumerist – Consumer Reports’ free Internet site – has an interesting blog based on a tip from a reader on how he got a deal on a new phone on Verizon’s website. Here is the tip it received: “I don’t know if this is a widely known deal, but I just got the chance [...]
3g iPhones Don’t Play Nice With New iTunes iPhone 4 Operating System
Western Connecticut interior designer Karen Gilston is one of the victims of frequent iPhone technology improvements. As the owner of an iPhone 3g Gilston’s phone hasn’t worked right since the latest iPhone 4 came out and iTunes automatically updated all prior iPhones to the new operating system. “My phone started slowing down considerably, my battery [...]
Steve Jobs Was Warned Of iPhone 4 Reception Issues
Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal report that Apple’s famed CEO Steve Jobs was made aware way before the launch of iPhone 4 that if the phone was held in a certain way its reception would be degraded as the metal band around the phone serves as its antenna. However, the two publications said [...]
Federal Suit Against AT&T and Apple Given Class Action Status To Millions Locked Into 2-year Contracts
A federal judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc.’s mobile phone unit can move forward as a class action. The lawsuit consolidates several filed by iPhone buyers starting in late 2007, a few months after the first generation of Apple’s smart phone went on sale. An amended complaint filed in [...]
Android Sales Gain Market Shares, Good For You And Google
Android has grown significantly in the period from February to May 2010, while all other major operating systems experienced a drop in their market share, Mashable reported today. “In this period, RIM was still the leading mobile smartphone platform, dropping from 42.1% to 41.7% market share. It was followed by Apple which somewhat surprisingly dropped [...]
iPhone 4 Review: The Best iPhone 4 Review I Have Read
Thanks to my friend and fellow journalist Lon Seidman for turning me on to an incredibly professional technology review site: AnAndTech. It has the most thorough and apparently accurate review of the iPhone 4 available anywhere. It has the basic information for people like you and me who might be considering purchasing one and it [...]
Apple Claims iPhone 4 Reception Fine, But Says Its Bar Numbers Are Wrong
The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.
To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.
Apple Sued Over iPhone 4 Reception Problems
A Massachusetts and a New Jersey resident have filed federal law suits against Apple hoping to launch class actions against the giant computer company over reception problems with the new iPhone 4. According to the Bloomberg News account the suits were filed in San Francisco in the following cases: Alan Benvenisty v. Apple, 10-2885, and [...]
iPhone 4 WITH Bumper Works Great, But Some Stores Sold Out
If you are thinking buying the new iPhone 4, you might want to go to your Apple store NOW to purchase the bumper case that permits it have full reception quality. The $29 Apple Bumper is now selling for at least $39 plus shipping at eBay and some Apple stores are running out of the [...]
Verizon To Sell iPhone Starting January
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans told Bloomberg News. “The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named because the [...]
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