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View Full Version : Had a good full day of testing my iPhone 4.

Scaramoosh
07-22-2010, 05:11 PM
Got it yesterday and posted impressions, however I've been using it all day now and I think I'm even more in love with it now. I have 2 bars on any phone I used in my area, that includes my old 3GS and the HD2. My iPhone 4 has 5 full bars right now and it's amazing how over the days use the signal has improved. When I first opened it, the phone was only getting 3 bars but now it's always on 5. I dunno what has changed but my HD2 still only has 2.

When I touch the antenna sometimes it drops to 3 bars and sometimes it doesn't drop at all. It's a weird issue that has never dropped service for me but it's inconsistent to if it drops any bars at all. So I'm not convinced there is a problem there because that happens with any phone I've used.

The camera is amazing with such good quality, just been editing videos on iMovies and it has been a laugh. The problem is iMovies is really poor with so little features, I expect more from movie editing software. However it was alright to use for a joke video where I was just showing my mate the phone.

Just so in love with the screen and people who want to look at the phone all fall in love with it. Even my friend who is so Anti Apple (like I used to be) really likes it better than his HTC Desire. It's weird because people always used to complain about how small the 3GS screen was, but this phone is around about the same size and noone has mentioned the screen screen. Looking at the new IPS higher resolution screen just seems to make it feel much bigger than it is.

I'm not really a fan of how Apple restrict everything, however that hasn't been and issue so far because this phone seems like a massive improvement, there isn't much it can't do and it is so smooth. I just wish Apple would allow an option to enable flash and let me add custom text alert sounds. I also don't want to use facetime because I'm ugly lol.

Defo the best Smart Phone out there right now and I don't understand all the complaints, I just think it's the press who have blown it way outta proportion. Which must massively hurt sales cause everyone I know says they wont buy one cause they heard about the signal issue.
sammysin
07-22-2010, 05:27 PM
Find someone you feel comfortable with and use FaceTime. It's one of the best features of the phone. I call most of my family and my girlfriend with it now.
Jane55
07-23-2010, 02:37 AM
hmm, you are lucky.
yup, facetime is the best feature of the iPhone 4 that I really like. :p
sid187
07-23-2010, 09:30 AM
congrats, glad you got a good one.. i do think the media did blow it up bigger than the original problem may have been.. but there was a problem with some and its valid issue and with out the media i really doubt apple would of did anything.. so, its a wake up call for apple and reminds them there poo dose stink and i bet the iphone 5 will be almost perfect?

chris.
Kamazar
07-23-2010, 05:02 PM
Finally got a chance to try a friend's out. I know I'm gonna be somewhat empty inside if I get a droid.
sid187
07-23-2010, 06:15 PM
to be honest teh droid phone i used was great. htc g3. only thing i could not get use to was using a button to go back..
touch screen is just a great interface for us humans.. buttons are so 1921. heh

chris.
Kamazar
07-23-2010, 06:19 PM
to be honest teh droid phone i used was great. htc g3. only thing i could not get use to was using a button to go back..
touch screen is just a great interface for us humans.. buttons are so 1921. heh

chris.

Isn't that a Windows-mobile phone?
sid187
07-23-2010, 09:07 PM
Isn't that a Windows-mobile phone?

naw its a android. however, i was wrong on the model. not that it matters as they both run androids.

its a HTC my touch slide.. anyhow nice phone. its my moms phone. she has a ipod touch gen 3.. she would of went with apple if it was not for at&t. her phone was 8 years old she needed a update anyhow.

chris.
crunc
07-28-2010, 02:24 PM
I get better reception on my iPhone 4 then I did my 3GS as well, and when I do have a signal it works better then before. It's night and day better at the train station I wait at before going home every day. The media blow up, I believe, was poor reporting due to a desire by news outlets to compete with blogs, which essentially means that they can't really do any research, they just have to go with it. Yes, I can get the phone to drop bars, but if the signal is better to begin with, and no worse afterward, then I fail to see how it's a problem. I get a signal in places I never got a signal with my 3GS and while it is weak, at least it is there and works!

EDIT: and before anyone says it, yes Consumer Reports said they could see the problem and that *the drop* was worse, but they said absolutely nothing about how the signal compared to other phones. They were only talking about the worst case drop, not the real world use. Essentially they went into their "research" with the same forgone conclusion as everyone else, that there was a problem, and they set out to prove that they were right, not to really research the situation. Either that or it was an attention grab, because who thought of Consumer Reports before that article? I can only presume that their readership had been in steep decline prior to that report.