{"id":2595,"date":"2010-07-02T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:37:02","slug":"apple-responds-to-iphone-4-reception-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/apple-responds-to-iphone-4-reception-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Responds to iPhone 4 Reception Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2010\/07\/02appleletter.html\">Apple&rsquo;s response<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-iphone-4-grip-of-death\/\">grip of death<\/a> is:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Pretending that previous iPhones were also subject to this problem, which as far as I know is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/3794\/the-iphone-4-review\/2\">not true<\/a>&mdash;certainly not to the same extent.<\/li>\r\n<li>Acknowledging that iPhone has always inflated the signal strength. This explains why I usually have more bars than other AT&amp;T phones and why calling is unreliable even with 4&#8211;5 bars.<\/li>\r\n<li>Announcing a free update that will reduce the number of displayed bars, thus hiding the drop.<\/li>\r\n<li>Not announcing anything that will improve the actual reception for people affected by this issue.<\/li>\r\n<li>Deflecting the blame to AT&amp;T.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/07\/translation_iphone_4\">John Gruber<\/a> brings his usual translation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&rsquo;s response to the grip of death is: Pretending that previous iPhones were also subject to this problem, which as far as I know is not true&mdash;certainly not to the same extent. Acknowledging that iPhone has always inflated the signal strength. This explains why I usually have more bars than other AT&amp;T phones and why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15077,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/15077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}