Lol. I recently bought an iPhone 4 for Emily. We were messing around with it, and she called me while we were in the same room. So I walked over and moved her finger to a certain spot on the side of the phone, and I immediately could no longer hear her talk. The call was dropped a few seconds later. Emily looked at me with an expression like, "Really? They would design a phone like that?"
So I told her to bust out the scotch tape and use it to insulate the gap. I then made fun of the fact that she had to tape her $200 phone, and that the act of taping the phone actually did something useful.
Needless to say, we were both highly amused. :D
... That is, we've both been amused until this very moment. Emily left about 20min to run up to the grocery store, and I've been trying to call her ever since. Each time I do, it goes straight to voicemail. So I texted her asking why her phone was off, and she responded with "It's not". She just called me, and the call was dropped.
This never happened with her old 3GS (now my phone). To be clear, I called her 2 seconds after she walked out the front door. So the phones were almost literally next to each other at the time. We live in Petaluma, CA, which is about 30 minutes north of San Francisco, so it's not like we're out in the boonies. Our 3GS always reads full bars + 3G, so even with the inaccurate bar algorithm it should still be at least two bars of reception. Therefore the phones should always be capable of calling each other when they're almost directly next to each other.
So.... Strange. I don't know where people are getting evidence that the iPhone 4's reception is definitely improved, but, consider for a moment that perhaps it's definitely improved in certain areas, but definitely -worse- in other areas.
So I told her to bust out the scotch tape and use it to insulate the gap. I then made fun of the fact that she had to tape her $200 phone, and that the act of taping the phone actually did something useful.
Needless to say, we were both highly amused. :D
... That is, we've both been amused until this very moment. Emily left about 20min to run up to the grocery store, and I've been trying to call her ever since. Each time I do, it goes straight to voicemail. So I texted her asking why her phone was off, and she responded with "It's not". She just called me, and the call was dropped.
This never happened with her old 3GS (now my phone). To be clear, I called her 2 seconds after she walked out the front door. So the phones were almost literally next to each other at the time. We live in Petaluma, CA, which is about 30 minutes north of San Francisco, so it's not like we're out in the boonies. Our 3GS always reads full bars + 3G, so even with the inaccurate bar algorithm it should still be at least two bars of reception. Therefore the phones should always be capable of calling each other when they're almost directly next to each other.
So.... Strange. I don't know where people are getting evidence that the iPhone 4's reception is definitely improved, but, consider for a moment that perhaps it's definitely improved in certain areas, but definitely -worse- in other areas.