Its now the end of June, soon it’s going to be the start of July and we all know what that means! A brand new iPhone phone is getting ready to be released to customers on, the 24th of June.
Already the iPhone 4 has it’s share of drama surrounding it, some of the issues as early as April of 2010. In early April, Gizmodo employee Jason Chen bought a then top secret iPhone 4 prototype model from a nameless source for a sum of $5,000. Gizmodo.com held in depth coverage of the iPhone 4 and even was mentioned on large news networks like FoxNews and MSNBC. His house was later raided by the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team and had his computers seized. The explanation for the raid on his domicile was something to do with commercial espionage; but how could you be guilty of that if all you are doing is purchasing something? Youre not swiping it so whats the issue.
Then when the iPhone was ready for advance order via computer, the system crashed but not before over six hundred thousand preorders had been registered. Not just that, ATTs systems were suffering from security breaks and folk were accessing other peoples accounts incidentally, and having the ability to read and edit other patrons information. There were reports of AT&T shops being closed because of quantity of people making an attempt to preorder and the stress of ATTs systems being far too overloaded. ATT in the end had to close off the pre-ordering system due to mass misunderstanding and problems. Seems like they needed some computer virus removal Burnsville for their computer network.
Mashable journalist Sam Axon reported being mugged while lined up for the iPhone earlier today in Chicago. He posted on Twitter the following “I was just mugged while waiting in line for the iPhone 4. Not kidding.” What’s this world coming to? And ultimately, there are reports abound of the iPhone 4 having issues with its hardware. Gizmodo has said that the phone drops calls if a finger is placed on a certain small spot on the lower left side of the body. It turns out you can bridge two antenna with your finger which will cause the phone to drop calls. The solution is as straightforward as a miniscule piece of scotch tape, or put the phone in a case. Such a straightforward repair for a five hundred dollars device, but it shouldn’t exist in the first place?
People have produced proof the LCD viewscreen of the iPhone 4 has Problems with showing errant yellow pixels, stripes and spots just from normal useage. Most likely Apple will not fix the problem for free and will claim the user damaged the LCD themselves. Honestly, that problem shouldn’t exist when the expensive product hits the open market. Sony found out the hard way years ago with a huge recall for digital camera repair service to fix the CCD sensor on millions of cameras consumers had purchased.
Apple has a record of making cutting edge devices, but with the certainty that the iPhone 4 was going to be as well liked as it is, they should have put more thought and time into testing and development. It’s much simpler to handle design issues before you put item into mass production than it is to deal with them after the client has acquired the item. You don’t want to have a product recall for millions of buyers with mobile computer repair Prior Lake after the fact. Maybe Apple will learn a valuable lesson from this release.
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