Daily mail danas je nasjeo na objavu s parodijskog Twitter profila Aplleovog Stevea Jobsa.
Naime, jedna od najtiražnijih britanskih novina u svom online izdanju kroz pero uglednog Richarda Ashmorea napisala je kako
je Jobs na Twitteru poslao poruku: ‘Možda ćemo morati povući iPhone. To
nisam očekivao.’
Nije trebalo dugo da se ta vijest proširi po cijelom svijetu, ali ubrzo se otkrilo da je vijest uzeta sparodiskog profila Stevea Jobsa koji uzgred ima više od 100 followera. Daily Mail je naknadno povukao članak i
on se više ne može vidjeti, ali mi smo ga snimili.
U članku se spominju problemi otkriveni na novom Aplleovom gadgetu kao što je recimo problem nestanka signala kada korisnik rukom prekrije
metalni dio ugrađen u lijevi donji dio uređaja.
Budući se članak više ne može pronaći na Daily Mailovim stranicama dajemo vam tekstualni dio članka (bez fotografija) na engleskom jeziku.
The much-vaunted new iPhone 4 may be recalled, Apple boss Steve Jobs
revealed last night.
Posting a message on the social
networking site Twitter, the tycoon said: ‘We may have to recall the new
iPhone. This I did not expect.’
Launched in Britain last
week, the £500 handset has been dogged by technical problems.
Reception has been found to cut out when users cover a metal band
built into the phone’s bottom left-hand corner.
The new iPhone was also said to be unsuitable for left-handed people.
Mr Jobs responded to complaints about the new iPhone losing its
signal by telling users to ‘just avoid holding it in that way’.
Angry users
have complained that the phone’s reception suddenly plunges to almost
zero when they simply hold it in their hand.
Dozens
of videos have been placed on YouTube showing the iPhone 4 losing
signal the moment the metal antenna that surrounds the edge of the new
device is covered.
Mr Jobs issued his bizarre advice as he
responded to an email from a user on the
Ars Technica technology news site who had complained about the sudden
loss of signal.
In an astonishingly blunt response, Mr Jobs replied: ‘Just avoid
holding it in that way. All phones have
sensitive areas’.
In a statement, Apple said: ‘Gripping any mobile phone will result
in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places
being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas.’
‘This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever
experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left
corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal
band, or simply use one of many available cases.’
Apple claims
that using one of its ‘bumpers’ – which cost £25 each and clip over the
iPhone to protect it – will stop the user’s hand interfering with the
signal.
The firm is selling the rubber bumpers on its website but none will
be shipped to the UK until July 16th.
Users have flooded Twitter with rumours about the problem and
stop-gap remedies including using tape to cover the bottom of the phone.
Left-handed users are being particularly affected because when they
hold the phone in their left hand their fingers cover more of the
right-hand side of the phone – where the antenna is.
The left side of the iPhone 4 receives Wi-Fi signals while the right
side picks up the 3G signal for calls.
Technology website T3
ran a test using one of the ‘bumper’ cover for the phone which appears
to solve the issue.
Danish wireless technology expert called
Gert Frølund Pedersen told Wired magazine that the problem is probably
because the phone’s new antenna is built into the metal frame which
surrounds the device.
‘Human tissue will have an inhibitory effect
on the antenna. Touch means that a larger portion of the antenna energy
turns into heat and lost.
‘This makes the antenna less
efficient to send and receive radio signals,’ he said.
A loss of
signal, known as attenuation, can occur when an antenna is bridged.
Holding
it in your hand will change the length of the antenna and interfere
with the specific wavelengths it is calibrated to pick up.
The
Apple iPad also faced some teething problems when it was launched with
users reporting problems when they tried to connect to wi-fi. A software
update had to be issued to sort this problem out.
And the iPhone 4 is not the first Apple 3G phone to have problems
with
its reception – users also reported problems with the earlier iPhone
3GS when it was first released too.
There have also been early
reports of problems with the iPhone’s screen.
Launched by
Steve Jobs as ‘retina display’, with an paralleled definition and number
of pixels, some users in the US have complained about some yellow
discolouration.
The spots can appear in corners and the thin bands
have shown up toward the tops and bottoms of customers’ screens.
Some
Apple insiders on web forums have claimed that the yellow colour is
down to the clue that the firm uses to bond the glass on its screens
which has not had the time to evaporate.
They claim that the
discolouration will clear after a day or two as the glue evaporates.
The
iPhone 4 was unveiled earlier this month. At the time, Mr Jobs said it
represented ‘the biggest leap since the original iPhone’.
It
offers video calling, a higher-resolution display and the ability to
record and view high-definition video.
The new handset updates
the iPhone 3GS which launched a year ago and sold more than a million
units in its first weekend.
A spokesperson for Apple was not
immediately available to comment.
