https://touchreviews.net/apple-secret-strategy-iphone-4-press-conference/ iPhone, iPad Games, Apps, Reviews, News Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: wardmundy https://touchreviews.net/apple-secret-strategy-iphone-4-press-conference/#comment-5443 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:26:17 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=7893#comment-5443 I'm with Dfields on this one. It just looks like more than coincidence that Apple produced its first case EVER for an iPhone that turns out to need a case. Sorry, Steve, but I don't buy the surprise explanation.

]]> By: Dfields https://touchreviews.net/apple-secret-strategy-iphone-4-press-conference/#comment-5441 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:35:57 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=7893#comment-5441 I own an earlier version of the iPhone. I was looking forward to upgrading to the iPhone 4 and its spiffy new antenna. But when apple produced a “case” for the phone just designed to cover the antenna, I knew something was wrong. Apple doesn't do cases. It would never promote covering up the iphone4, its most beautiful piece of work to date, unless they knew something wrong with it.

Here's the magic. The most obvious thing in the room is the “antenna” case. The fact that it exists indicates that Apple believes the phone is flawed.

]]> By: Andrew Keith https://touchreviews.net/apple-secret-strategy-iphone-4-press-conference/#comment-5440 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:22:11 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=7893#comment-5440 They're like the bars on the WiFi signal on your computer. They indicate the strength, and thus reliability of the signal. The closer you are to the base station, with the most direct line of sight, the higher the signal quality. This means less chance of 'packets' of data being lost and having to be re-sent. At a low signal strength, the chance of lost packets is high, meaning that more packets have to be re-sent, meaning there is less bandwidth for the next set of packets. A dropped call occurs when there are so many dropped packets that it is impossible to both re-send the dropped ones and send the new ones fast enough…

]]> By: Sea Dog https://touchreviews.net/apple-secret-strategy-iphone-4-press-conference/#comment-5439 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:44:23 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=7893#comment-5439 ok – I have a question. Since we moved from analog phones to digital phones – what the heck do the bars mean anyhow. Isn’t it 1′s and 0′s? you either have enough signal to send and receive data (1) or you don’t (0) – even at 1 bar, you can still talk – and send and receive data…. its not like you hear static when your bars drop

can someone please splain to me what bars are for?

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