{"id":3181,"date":"2010-07-07T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2010-07-07T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T20:30:40","slug":"even-applecare-knows-the-4-0-1-update-will-not-fix-the-iphone-antenna-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/even-applecare-knows-the-4-0-1-update-will-not-fix-the-iphone-antenna-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Even AppleCare knows the 4.0.1 update will not fix the iphone antenna issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple first announced that they have been using an incorrect algorithm for calculating radio reception (and thus displaying &#8216;bars&#8217;) and that it will be corrected via a software update; many of us thought, &#8216;how is this going to change anything?&#8217; I wrote a few posts back guessing that perhaps they need some sort of core firmware change to change how the power to the antenna is managed might make a difference but that does not seem to be whats going on here.<\/p>\n<p>Now I read that the good folks at AppleCare basically give the same answer for &#8216;grip if death&#8217; issue that we heard from the beginning, either hold it differently (sorry lefties) or get a case.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Really.\u00a0 I starting to buy into the movement that Apple should offer a case to all iphone users who request one since this asking someone to hold the phone a certain way is simply not an answer.\u00a0 Still, will be interesting to see how this update will change how the iphone reception issue shows itself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Will the new iphone4 antenna reduce dropped calls?  Not if you hold it wrong\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/will-the-new-iphone4-antenna-reduce-dropped-calls-not-looking-like-it\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Will the new iphone4 antenna reduce dropped calls?  Not if you hold it wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple first announced that they have been using an incorrect algorithm for calculating radio reception (and thus displaying &#8216;bars&#8217;) and that it will be corrected via a software update; many of us thought, &#8216;how is this going to change anything?&#8217; I wrote a few posts back guessing that perhaps they need some sort of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/even-applecare-knows-the-4-0-1-update-will-not-fix-the-iphone-antenna-issue\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105],"tags":[719,703,718],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-product-review","tag-4-0-1-update","tag-bad-reception","tag-grip-of-death"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-Pj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}