Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
As the major problem is signal, I would imagine the cellphone service dropping is of more interest to those people that hold the thing to make phone calls. Which of course is relevant to a "rightie" in the middle of a call trying to write down a phone number, for example.

It's a shoddy error and I read one report putting it down to Apple having a monster mast on the campus where they tested the thing - where this probably wasn't an issue.
...and those phones that were used off campus (*cough* Gizmodo *cough*) were covered in disguise cases, which, as we know, don't exhibit the problem.

Nevertheless, I am still somewhat surprised that the issue was not uncovered previously, leading me to believe that the sample and testing models that were initially produced did not exhibit this problem - so it could be a hardware issue affecting the first batch (and, after all, these are made in China - though I doubt it, seeing as how Honhai operates), or a software issue based on the signal selection algorithm.

Apple's software no longer selects the strongest signal, but instead the highest quality signal available - this is a departure from the standard way of doing things. It's quite conceivable that as part of this new code, some unforeseen conditions (fluctuations of the readings caused by galvanic skin response) would throw the algorithm a curve ball. We'll know soon enough.

As for the PC World article -- you do know the meaning of 'satire', as I seriously hope that you don't think that's a serious article.

HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, et al... Oh, I'm sure they are laughing. Well, until the first weekend's, first week's and first month's sales are released by Apple.