Apple, in an effort to move some of the negative publicity away from their iPhone 4 “antennagate” onto other phone makers, has released a video testing the new Motorola Droid X, which appears to have the same issues when held in the “death grip.”
Posting the video on YouTube and their own site, Apple shows off the Droid X being held in two different grips, with the cell signal bars magnified in the corner.
When barely held, the phone has two bars. When held in the “death grip,” the bars slowly but surely fall to zero.
While Apple may insist that every other smartphone has the same issues as their iPhone 4, has anyone heard complaints from a real user?
Result for: publicity
Apple, in an effort to move some of the negative publicity away from their iPhone 4 “antennagate” onto other phone makers, has released a video testing the new Motorola Droid X, which appears to have the same issues when held in the “death grip.”
Posting the video on YouTube and their own site, Apple shows off the Droid X being held in two different grips, with the cell signal bars magnified in the corner.
When barely held, the phone has two bars. When held in the “death grip,” the bars slowly but surely fall to zero.
While Apple may insist that every other smartphone has the same issues as their iPhone 4, has anyone heard complaints from a real user?
Result for: publicity
Although not officially anounced yet, the date for next years Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference appears to have been chosen.Not surprisingly it will begin on June 28 to coincide with both the anniversary of the original iPhone’s release and the expiration of AT&T’s exclusive carrier deal.
With all the bad publicity and customer ill will generated by AT&T during their time as the ecxlusive iPhone partner you can be sure this will be more than just another iPhone launch. It will be Apple’s chance to make a new start, either with a new US carrier deal or a completely open arrangement like Google is planning for their Nexus phone.
Assuming there is also an accompanying OS update, as their has been with each successive iPhone launch, it will also be the first time iPhone owners have been charged for it.
Thanks to the restrictions placed on them by the same accounting rules which have required them to charge iPod Touch owners for previous updates, they must charge for updates released more than three years after an iPhone is sold. Changes to these rules could mean Apple can offer free updates for the life of the device. They would also be able, for the first time ever, to immediately show the full amount of revenue generated from the next iPhone launch on their books.
In the past that revenue had to be spread across the same period during which free updates were offered.
