Isn’t the iPhone 4 great? It surely is in almost every department. The antenna issues are big business for the digital news sites, but the proximity sensor problems are not gaining the same amount of attention.
I called my Mother the other day and the called started with her saying Hello? multiple times and me saying it back to her. By the time I realised that my cheek had pressed the mute key she had disconnected. I called her back and then disconnected the next call after a minute accidentally with my cheek. I now use the iPhone with care on voice calls and do not like having to think about how I am holding a phone when speaking to someone.
This is a phone and voice calling should be the most natural thing in the world. Apple, sort it out!
Don’t criticise the iPhone. Steve is a prophet
http://yotamak.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c145e53ef0128778d9974970c-800wi
I heard the light sensor has been moved due to the camera and this means the screen can be left activated. I guess you need to be careful of hand *and* face positions!
Goodness me, so many issues from such a high-end phone!
Not had this problem myself…nor the antenna issues either….snigger snigger
Anyone tried the iHand?
http://scoopertino.com/apple-introduces-ihand-the-right-way-to-hold-your-iphone/
At the end of the day, what we are increasingly seeing is that modern smartphones are just mobile computers with a phone added on. The phone function increasingly seems to be losing importance and the lack of QA and testing associated with it ( reflected by increased errata ) reflects this.
Data is king, voice is dead… which sorta sucks if you want to use your phone as a… phone
My wife just called me while I was in the coffee shop- she ended up on speaker phone and I then cut her off. Grrrrrrr!!!
Just don’t hold it against your cheek then – tip it out slightly – at least until there’s a fix.
Not got antenna or proximity issues. I reckon Vodafone got a different batch to others.
However, I have noticed a few other bugs when connecting the phone to a pc and the camera roll, not major though.
I have got to say though that of all the previous 1000000000 phones I have used, the iPhone 4 is the best and most complete at everything!
The iPhone 4 versus Android discussions are getting a lot of interest at work, even from people who are not normally interested in such matters. The antenna issue has had more than just inter web publicity.
“ur doin it rong”
-Jobs-Ra
Is the proximity actually a light sensor – I’m surprised they don’t use the tilt sensors – after all how many of us hold a phone upright when on speaker phone, or similarly talk on it with it laid flat?