Posts Tagged ‘iphone cases’

Get Full Bars On Your IPhone 4 By Putting It In An IPhone 4 Case.

posted by Catt Mallen
Friday, August 13, 2010

There have been reports, literally thousands upon thousands of reports from customer regarding their iPhone 4 signal issues.The issues that everyone is reporting have to do with a total loss of signal and data service on the iPhone 4 while browsing the internet or making a call, and in some cases when the phone is just sitting and not in use.

Everything seems to point to the way you use your iPhone, or more specifically, the way you hold your iPhone.The iPhone 4 singal, or antenna problem.While it sounds absolutely ridiculous for such an amazing device, unfortunately it is true.I use my iPhone 4 more than the average cell phone user, some days spending up to 6 hours on the phone with customers, clients and friends.When the iPhone 4 is held in the most natural way in your hands, there is a complete and total loss of all signal from the antenna and even data is not available. The signal strength goes from full signal right down to just one single bar, or worse, no signal at all with the searching message and a dropped call as your end result.

Apple has been slow to address this issue, stating only that holding it in this way will show a drop in your signal, and that the signal bar issues will be fixed in an upcoming software update, and have to do with the signal strength not actually being correct.I do however find it very hard to believe that this alone is the cause for the dropped calls on the iPhone 4, despite it being the only thing Apple will say.

There is a quick fix out there for this issue, and it has to do with having an iPhone 4 case on your iPhone.With a case on your iPhone 4 you won’t experience any of the dropped calls or antenna issues no matter how you’re holding your phone.It just shows yet again that there is something very wrong with either the design or the materials used to make the iPhone 4 itself.To be honest with you I have always been a very firm believer in protecting any gadget I have, including my iPhone 4 by putting it in a case.  It’s an expensive investment, and spending $10.00 – $20.00 on a stylish case seems like common sense to me.I certainly don’t want scratches or scuffs on my iPhone 4, but that doesn’t take away from the problem I have with this whole signal issue going on with a brand new phone.

Gizmodo states that Apple may in fact be doing some type of a silent or unannounced recall on the iPhone 4 with certain customers.  Replacing their iPhone 4 with a replacement iPhone, and the issue does not seem to be present on most of these iPhone 4′s that customers are receiving.It’s very important that I state that this recall that everyone is talking about is currently just speculation and no more than a rumor.However a number of buyers have said that this issue is just not there on their replacement iPhone 4 units.  While others continue to have a problem, unless of course, they put their iPhone 4 back in an iPhone case again.

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Useful Tips About iPhone Reviews

posted by Catt Mallen
Friday, April 30, 2010

When it comes to the problem of reading iphone reviews, it becomes vital to determine the credibility of the individual who is writing the review. That is to say, if the reviewer is not qualified to write the review then the review may be without merit. While this may seem like an overly serious assessment of requirements needed to read a review, there needs to be a clear understanding present as to why the potential customer is reading the review in the first place.

The most important reason folks read a patron review is to make the correct buying call. Considering that there’s a time and financial commitment needed for making the acquisition of the iphone, the necessity to be forewarned and forearmed is critical to a lot of people who are of limited time and resources. Briefly they peruse the iphone reviews in order to confirm they’re not making a wrong buying decision.

If the credibility of the review is in question, this will undermine the primary purpose and objective of reading the review in the first place. Of course, there are those who read consumer reviews for entertainment purposes only, but such trite casual reading is also deserved of accuracy in consumer review and reporting.

Providing iphone reviews – or any reviews for that matter – should not be treated tritely by the reviewer and there should be a clear and definite attempt to provide a quality review. If not, the formerly already mentioned undermining of the review’s purpose becomes present.

If there was a genre that movie critics disliked to review it would be the comedy genre. The reason behind this is that irrespective of how much they may hate a comedy they can not say it wasn’t an amusing film if the majority of the audience is guffawing. The point of a comedy is to make folks giggle and if it is doing then it succeeds at its purpose.

Similarly, liking or disliking a particular iphone may provide entertaining reading as some iphone reviews may serve a purpose of being little more than a vehicle for humor, but whether a person likes or dislikes the phone is irrelevant unless the liking or disliking is expanded upon to include whether or not the phone delivers on its promised service. Ultimately, this is the most important aspect of the phone – does it work or not and does it provide a functional value in concert with its cost?

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