Apple has confirmed there's a reception problem with the new iPhone 4.
If you hold it covering the bottom left-hand corner, your mobile signal with gradually get weaker until it disappears.
Try it. It's a perfectly natural way to hold the phone, especially if you are left-handed.
There was an outcry from users who found they were chatting away happily on their phone - then zilch signal and an end to chatting.
Well, Apple has now confirmed the problem and it says it's our fault.
Yes, we are to blame!
Because we are holding the phone in the wrong way. We must not touch the bottom left-hand corner because that's the antenna.
You almost expect a smack on the offending hand from an Apple Genius.
Apple uBer-boss Steve Jobs replied to a user's email about the problem. He said:
"Just don't hold it that way".
A little later, he got a slightly longer message:
"....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."
This has now become the official Apple statement on the iPhone 4 disappearing signal affair. It's all our fault for trying our best to hold the phone to our ear in the only way we know how.
Perhaps Apple could arrange it that we're born with one of its "magical" devices permanently attached to one or other of our ears! Then we wouldn't have to touch that oh-so-sensitive bottom left-hand corner at all.
I shouldn't joke. It may happen.
Apple has got to get this reception problem sorted out. So we can use our new phone as a ....err...phone.
If you hold it covering the bottom left-hand corner, your mobile signal with gradually get weaker until it disappears.
Try it. It's a perfectly natural way to hold the phone, especially if you are left-handed.
There was an outcry from users who found they were chatting away happily on their phone - then zilch signal and an end to chatting.
Well, Apple has now confirmed the problem and it says it's our fault.
Yes, we are to blame!
Because we are holding the phone in the wrong way. We must not touch the bottom left-hand corner because that's the antenna.
You almost expect a smack on the offending hand from an Apple Genius.
Apple uBer-boss Steve Jobs replied to a user's email about the problem. He said:
"Just don't hold it that way".
A little later, he got a slightly longer message:
"....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."
This has now become the official Apple statement on the iPhone 4 disappearing signal affair. It's all our fault for trying our best to hold the phone to our ear in the only way we know how.
Perhaps Apple could arrange it that we're born with one of its "magical" devices permanently attached to one or other of our ears! Then we wouldn't have to touch that oh-so-sensitive bottom left-hand corner at all.
I shouldn't joke. It may happen.
Apple has got to get this reception problem sorted out. So we can use our new phone as a ....err...phone.
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