Hey, Hey, look everybody: the iPhone 4 costs $188 to make, according to the brave-hearted conquistadores over at iSuppli, in their latest published estimates for the value of the device. That follows last week’s iFixit teardown.
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Apple this morning confirmed that iPhone 4 sales have vastly exceeded most analysts predictions — the company has sold over 1.7 million iPhone 4s in the first three days since launch.
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Amazon last night added support for video and audio clips to its Kindle books app on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
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A MacRumors forum user got the following email from SJobs after asking about the wireless issue. rfbandit (Mark) was asking about Apple’s policy on giving free bumper cases to alleviate the issue. “I love everything about the phone except my signal issues”, he wrote.
There is no reception issue? I absolutely love my iPhone 4 but we can easily reproduce this reception issue on my phone to the point where data is cut off and calls drop. Am I crazy? How about those 80,000 people on YouTube or the majority in the MacRumors poll?
So I’m wondering if Steve Jobs is invoking the Distortion field for this one. Sadly, it reminds me of this:
Until now, the Apple party line has been:
Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.
I’m really hoping that Jobs is talking in future-speak and a baseband update comes out next week that makes this all go away.
I bring good news to iPhone 4 owners whose friends, neighbors and distant relatives didn
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Apple seems likely to have sold between 1 million to 1.5 million iPhone 4
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In response to many complaints about the signal strength, Apple has issued an official statement admitting the flaw and advising iPhone 4 users to ‘avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band’.
Steve Jobs stepped into the antenna issue fray today. If you aren’t yet familiar, if you hald the iPhone 4 a certain way, the antena signal degrades.
After 24 hours with my device, it is easily reproducible and actually does affect call quality, at least in my case. But Jobs isn’t worried according to this email chain. In fact, if you hold your device in such a way as to make the signal go down, you are clearly doing it wrong:
Hi Steve,?????
So, um, just got my iPhone 4. Its lovely and all, but this ‘bridge the two antennae to kill your reception’ thing seems to be a bit serious. If I bridge them with my hand or with a piece of metal the bars slowly drop to ‘Searching…’ and then ‘No Service’.
Its kind of a worry. Is it possible this is a design flaw?
Regards
– Rory Sinclair
His reply:
Nope. Just don’t hold it that way.
Rory continued:
I texted someone from the phone and noticed reception dropping as I texted, down to ‘No Service’, so I emailed again:
Actually, its not calls that concern me, but i’ve just been writing a text and its very natural for me as a right-handed person to hold it that way, with the part of my hand at the base of my thumb covering the point the antennae meet, and it kills the reception each time.
I mean, pretty much as soon as i move my hand it comes back, but its pretty crazy… is this the reason Bumpers exist?
– Rory
I seriously dig the phone, its totally amazing, but I think this is what many would call a design flaw.
– Rory
Sure there are – every phone has these areas of sensitivity, depending on the location of the antenna. Some phones even ship with labels warning customers to not cover certain areas with their hands.
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Reports of reception problems and yello blemishes mar Apple’s iPhone 4 launch, as product sells out internationally.
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The iPhone 4 tidal wave is crashing across the USA, with queues longer than for any previously-hyped Apple product. The video above shows the queue at Ginza, Japan this morning.
Stores in the UK, France, Germany and Japan are already out of stock of the device this morning, while reports from the US suggest things are heading that way in Apple
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In the video above, cheers erupt in New York as Apple on Fifth Avenue opened for iPhone 4 sales.
This morning sees the world’s insane love for the iPhone, as thousands hit queues across the planet, and supply dries up in the UK, France, Germany and Japan, even while Apple’s retail stores run out of stock. Demand is described as the biggest for any Apple product yet.
Three has initiated what could become an iPhone 4 price war in the UK, where Apple
The latest Steve Jobs email to hit the ether this morning is the CEO