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No, I'm sorry, the design is flawed. I own one. Our family has owned the iphone 1, 3, and now 4. Yes, the iphone 4 is the best "phone" of the lot, but 1 and
by dhimes 16y ago
No, I'm sorry, the design is flawed. I own one. Our family has owned the iphone 1, 3, and now 4. Yes, the iphone 4 is the best "phone" of the lot, but 1 and 3 were lousy- far too poor for me to risk using as my primary business phone. Which is why I waited for the word on the 4 before I bought one. The main problem was something I could fix with a case- I use cases anyway, so it wasn't a problem for me. Or so I thought.
Turns out, there is another flaw, one that I never had with a 2006 motorola on the same network and used under exactly the same conditions. The iphone 4 has an echo- some times- that makes it very difficult to talk. When I'm talking on the phone I get an echo in my ear of what I'm saying. If I have any mobility I can manage this by moving to another room or sometimes just changing the direction in which I'm holding the phone.
I love the iphone, it does a lot of things brilliantly, but it has never been a terrific phone.
Besides, they advertised for an antenna engineer just after the brouhaha.
And, in fairness to them, I never dropped a call because of the antenna (in the week or so I used the phone before the case). I actively tried to a couple of times, but it didn't drop.
- brianpan 16y agoIf you're hearing an echo, that means echo cancellation is not working, either in your network or the network of the person you are calling. I don't believe handsets do any echo cancellation.