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It seems like Apple solved a "perceived" problem with their phone (it is probably a problem with all phones, but never so heavily publicized like for the iPhone
by grok2 16y ago
It seems like Apple solved a "perceived" problem with their phone (it is probably a problem with all phones, but never so heavily publicized like for the iPhone4) by fixing the the source of that perception. Clever.
But the solution doesn't really address the real complaint -- that holding the phone in some ways seemed to change the number of bars shown. It seems like overall the bars display will be conservative now, so people just won't perceive such a large drop in the number of bars.
- ttol 16y agoActually Apple seemed to have biased the iPhone's display of bars to show 5 bars when the signal falls in the top 50% of the range. As Gruber noted, the exposed antenna in iPhone 4 highlighted the downside to that issue -- when you're near the floor of the 50% range, you suddenly go down in bars dramatically. So the fix is to make what was fake before, more accurate. Source (from Gruber): http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefully-shows-that-im-not http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull...