Tag: RECEPTION

This probably isn't really very 'Download Squad', but as Lee's not around to stop me posting this, I thought I'd share. In just two minutes the geniuses at Taiwan's NMA news agency describe the entire iPhone 4 reception/antenna/free-bumpers-for-all debacle. They tell the story using Sims-like CGI, it features Steve Jobs, Bill Gates _and_ evil Sith Lord Palpatine-esque hand-lightning. Also, ...

Apple's iOS 4.0.1 has arrived -- along with 3.2.1 for iPads -- and the big buzz is about a change in the way "bars" of signal strength are displayed. iOS 4.0.1 "Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display," but the 378MB update doesn't have any other specific info in the release notes. Apart from changing how many bars to show, Apple has also messed with ...

The biggest story around the iPhone 4 launch hasn't been about the phone's awesome new features, it's been about the flaky reception when it's held wrong. A left-handed grip on the phone messes with the baseband antenna, and users are ticked off. Steve Jobs, in typical Jobsian style, has responded with "just avoid holding it that way." Well, Apple might have a better response than that: a software ...