Comments on: Apple's iPhone 4: Is That a Smartphone in Your Pocket?

By: Jawad

Jawad — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:18:15 +0000

I think that Aleza this problem is removed in new iphones , and also this problem arises when ur hand is on a very specific place on iphone back .. otherwise there is no such problem

By: Aleza

Aleza — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:14:59 +0000

no doubt iphone 4 is worth keep in pocket mobile, but what abt the anteenaa problem when u take it in your hands ………. :-))

By: technologiez

technologiez — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:42:19 +0000

I still have the 3GS so the size is a slight bit different but, being right-handed (that’s who’s most likely to have the problem BTW JimmyJack), I must say I find it quite unnatural to hold it while typing/touching/viewing to have the required tight contact across that bottom left corner. Even look back at when Ars was trying to replicate it. They were licking their palms for moisture and trying to readjust their grip so it could occur, and even then not having 100% replication

By: Car Share

Car Share — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:16:11 +0000

I'm going to leave my upgrade for 6 months until Apple has sorted out all of the bugs.

By: Bocephus

Bocephus — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:12:47 +0000

To most people the iPhone is not a regular phone it is THE phone by which all others want to be.

In other words the use of terms like "smartphone" or "superphone" are meant to raise the level of that phone to that of the iPhone.

To put it another way a smartphone or superphone is just a phone that is trying very hard to emulate an iPhone. It's that simple.

By: Burgundy

Burgundy — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:25:34 +0000

I'm curious if anyone is in my category. I'm actually a pretty dedicated Mac user. I love the iPod line, etc. However, I am not a fan of the iPhone at all. I find way too many limits on for my use. I opted for a Droid Incredible instead. I just prefer the Google integration and full web experience that it offers me. People act like I am some sort of freak of nature because I don't have an iPhone. AT&T is a little spotty where my house is so that's another strike. I'm not hateful to the iPhone. I just don't prefer it which seems completely unheard of among people who own Macs.

By: Remy C

Remy C — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:21:32 +0000

This is a bit inaccurate, though, as it suggests that the Apple versions' awareness is somehow less than anyone else's, when it's really that you're discussing niche products that most people couldn't name any of.

I'd venture that anyone aware of any set-top boxes would know the AppleTV as well as Roku or Boxee. Same with mice; are there many people who have heard of the Razer Diamondback but not the Magic Mouse? Nobody unaware of MacBooks probably has a clue about what any Dells or Acers are named.

It's not that Apple's other brands aren't known, it's that nothing in those areas really is. Personal electronics really only distinguish themselves at a certain level, and computers (and peripherals) have never really been there.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:22:54 +0000

When they start selling them at Walmart and Radio Shack and 2/3 of the classroom raises its hand that their parents own an iphone, I think it has officially lost its place as a status symbol.

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:46:58 +0000

Hi,

Sony had a similar thing both for the Walkman and the Original Playstation, where every other console was being called a, or "like a", Playstation, but then what happened?

You can only use your brand and UI advantages for so long, before others catch-up and improve, and your IP becomes commoditised, just look at the way Gemstar tried going with the TV Guide Grid, or Tivo, eventually, market dynamics mean those wonderful advantages you thought you had, stop mattering unless there's real proprietary value to them.

The most pertinent example though, and Steve Jobs knows about this, is failing to strike home the advantage Apple has built up by bringing so much change and creating such a lead, creating a tipping-point (- as with ebay/Facebook who didn't stop once they reached a certain threshold of users/openness/revenue/innovation - ) rather than smugly thinking what you have is so good and ceding the market to all those almost-as-good but cheaper competitors, just as happened with Apple's innovative products in the 1980's.

What Apple should do if they were smart is create their own CPU, write iOs (conditional on iTunes and individual account) just to that and sell a combined bundle to any OEM (subject to other terms/licences), whereby the iOS handset would always be at the top-end of any manufacturers range......

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

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