Guess how apple are patching the signal problem on the iPhone 4!

What happens to contracts? Does Apple cancel/pay for them?

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Originally Posted by StefanWolves

What people don't realise is these people that are having 'antenna issues' are actually squeezing the phone very hard, which is not what users do in every day life. All phones, if squeezed, will loose signal. Squeeze your phone hard, just like the people on YouTube that are moaning that their iPhone is '"loosing signal easy' and your phone will also loose signal to.

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Just squeezed my phone for about 20 seconds and had nothing. The iPhone loses signal immediately, this didn't at all :/ The iPhone seems to suffer just from gentle pressure. The people testing on YouTube might be squeezing to prove a point, which many people do (over-exaggerate the cause to get the effect).

This seems waaay too dodgy to be a software issue. If something physically effects something physical, then it must be a hardware issue. Last time I checked throwing a hammer at a computer monitor and it smashing was purely down to hardware/physical damage, not software damage :P

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Originally Posted by StefanWolves

What people don't realise is these people that are having 'antenna issues' are actually squeezing the phone very hard, which is not what users do in every day life. All phones, if squeezed, will loose signal. Squeeze your phone hard, just like the people on YouTube that are moaning that their iPhone is '"loosing signal easy' and your phone will also loose signal to.

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http://vimeo.com/12864890 - Oh yes, he's squeezing it so hard. No, not like that.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

What happens to contracts? Does Apple cancel/pay for them?

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Good question, I was wondering that myself. Probably what they're doing is you can return it to the company, but then you'd have to select another smartphone for your plan. Quite tricky, because some people might not want another smartphone.

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

Good question, I was wondering that myself. Probably what they're doing is you can return it to the company, but then you'd have to select another smartphone for your plan. Quite tricky, because some people might not want another smartphone.

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I was always under the impression if you returned your phone in the _ day period, your contract would also be cancelled. Guess it might differ carrier to carrier, but it's a fairly important issue for them to not have clarified...

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Originally Posted by Latour

I was always under the impression if you returned your phone in the _ day period, your contract would also be cancelled. Guess it might differ carrier to carrier, but it's a fairly important issue for them to not have clarified...

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This is normally how it works.

And not everyone is having the problem so it clearly is related to certain handsets having hardware issues.

This is why people should have stayed with the 3GS. :)