Every time I see a post like this it makes me wonder? Why are you here and do you work for Apple? Are you doing some kind of damage control? Do us all a favor and if you DO NOT have the problem, then just go about your way. All you are doing here is confusing people that are trying to get their phones fixed. We are not here Apple bashing.
Most of us just want a phone that works as good as or BETTER than the older model.
As I have said in prior posts, I am not really worried about the downplaying, cover ups, etc because I believe there are two problems at hand here working in concert. A lot of users as evidenced by earlier posts do not realize that they are face dialing, dropping calls, and muting people due to the proximity sensor initially. A lot of them just think it is a reception and antenna issue so if Apple chooses to ignore this problem, it will not go away.
You see Apple is a very high profile company and all it takes is a celebrity or influential person to have this problem and then throw it out there. That is basically what has happened this week with Whoopie Goldberg, David Letterman, Consumer Reports etc.
These are not "Apple Haters" - they are just people who have come to expect a certain level of quality from Apple products and are experiencing issues.
I personally have quite a few friends that are not experiencing the issue and quite a few that are. What I can tell you is the ones that are not, mostly use headphones, bluetooth, or have specifically told me they don't ever really let their face hit the phone because of smudges or whatever. This does not mean that there is not an issue in relation to what other users that ARE experiencing the problem have become accustomed to with older iPhone models or older cell phones in general.
I do agree with you that it just may be design of the new "all-in-one" sensor phone and that's it. Maybe this is why Apple is silent on the issue. I know they do not want to have another "that's how the phone works" and "don't hold it that way" fiasco.
I am not really complaining about the phone in that case. If they let us know that this is the intended functionality of the phone and it just doesn't work for "some users" then those people can vote with their wallets or choose to get a headset or whatever. They can even explain this nicely.
The phone sensor did not work this poorly on an OLDER model so this is why people are expecting the better or similar functionality. Sometimes when trying to improve a product, some things don't always work as well as on an older version. Sound familiar?
We really don't need YOU here explaining that this is only a "minor problem" or that this is the design of the phone so take it or leave it. We need APPLE to tell us and then we can make a decision.
Do you work for them? Why are you here on this particular forum then?
mbassoc2003 wrote:
Just because the iPhone 4 does not work the same way the iPhone 3G worked does not make it faulty. ****, my iPhone 4 is faulty because it doesn't fit in my 3G case.
If 99.9% of the 17million handsets sold in the first three days have never received a reported faulty sensor issue, then there is no issue with the design of the unit. It's something a miniscule minority of people who really really liked the 3G don't like about their new gizmo.
Now, if 40% of placed calls, or even 10% of placed calls right across the world exhibited problems with unexpected muting or termination of call, then you could cobfirm that none of those were due to network coverage or the 'antenna issue' then I could see an isse that could be described as a design fault.
But when 99.9% of all the world is not having a sensor problem, it's not a design flaw. If as a poster you thing it is not a handful of faulty sensors, then it can only be user error. Unless what you're saying is that everyone else has this problem and they're keeping it secret, ormaybe everyone else isn't having this problem because they're using their handsets wrong?
I don't give a **** if my phone blinks on and off lighting up my ear. I've been placing 20 minute calls to my home phone trying to replicate this problem; trying to dial with my cheak, hang up with my ear or mute with my nose. I cannot for the life of me find this sensor issue.
When I take the phone a little away from my ear, the screen activates. when i shove it back to the side of my head it switched off again, rub it around, make it blink, sure. But it still doesn't dial, mute or hand up calls.
I've been trying for days now, but I'm beginning the think I'm lucky not to be the one in a thousand who have discovered this trick of cheek dialing.
