Saturday, January 22, 2011

Why you should not get an iPhone 4

And here goes the ugly part about this phone.

1. Design
With all the breakthrough technology, iPhone 4 is using aluminosilicate glass which claimed to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic. However, it doesn't survive more than 5 drops at about 1 foot height. Don't believe? Check this out. It was designed to be more scratch resistant but drop test has proved that iPhone 4 was so brittle and prone to shatter. iPhone 4 is undeniably a fragile beauty i would say.



2. Antenna 
What else? No 2 will definitely goes for antenna issue. Faulty antenna problem was an ugly known fact due to the antenna was built at the metal band surrounding the sides of the phone. Signal drop problem was constantly reported when users hold the phone in a normal way. With all the controversy, Steve the CEO of Apple conclude in a statement saying that :

"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 case"


So, hold it at the right way as Steve said to avoid the phone signal goes from low to zero.



Or maybe you can try hold it like this? Guarantee good signal all the way.


Check, did you hold it right?

3. Poor Wifi connectivity
Apple is quite historically quite bad at engineering Wifi products that work. This is ironic as the iPhone 4 has a stainless band around the edge which Apple claimed to improve the network connection. Steve himself got a big boo for having a fail demo on iPhone 4. 

4. Alarm problem
If you're late for work, you must be a iPhone 4 user!! No joke, but iPhone 4 has caused a significant of users to be late on appointments, work and etc. I found this website who is guiding user to fix iPhone 4 problem. What a shame for Apple.

5. Proximity sensor problem
There were numerous complain of proximity sensor glitch that would result in the hanging up of calls or mysterious button press that would mute or invite another person to the call. Nothing throw you off when you are talking with the phone and out of the sudden the speakerphone comes on.


These are the top 5 reasons that makes many geeks a no-go for iPhone 4. There are still numerous issues about this phone like the seam problem on the device which has to go back for its design. On top of that, iPhone 4 is still comes with 3G connection. This is not a fourth generation smart phone yet. 


In a nut shell, iPhone 4 is a smart phone that you either love it or hate it . In other words , it also means that take it or leave it ! 

Let watch something that will drive iPhone 4 lovers go banana and the haters laughing all the way...




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