BGR has gotten hold of internal Apple instructions on how to deal with the iPhone 4 ‘death grip’ issue. This is normal practice, but not the type of material companies want to go public because of instructions like “We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers – DON’T promise a free bumper to customers.” and “Do not perform warranty service. Use the positioning above for any customer questions or concerns.”
Mr Jobs has been reportedly answering customer emails on the subject in his usual manner- “There’s no reception issue. Stay tuned.” and “Just avoid holding it in that way.” are two examples.
To conclude on this issue, The Daily Mail managed to run a story based on a Tweet by fake Steve Jobs. The titles of the article was ‘iPhone 4 may be recalled…”, but it was quickly removed. Nice to see The Daily Mail continuing with it’s usual standard of reporting i.e. mostly untrue and often quite nasty.
The Scouting for Symbian-powered bargains: 2010 edition by Steve Litchfield highlights just how cheaply you can pick up a decent Symbian powered smartphone these days. A Nokia E90 for £110 sounds like great value to me, and remember they are very good ‘phones’ which handle voice communication better than most others.
The T-Mobile Pulse is back down to £99.99 without a contract and T-Mobile is throwing in free texts for life and 6 months of free internet. It’s not the best phone in the world, but it is better than £99.
