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Armadillo Case for the iPhone 4 Review and Video

An iPhone 4 case made from aluminum is sure to turn heads, as there is no doubt the shiny metal looks far more stylish than one made of silicone, however as the iPhone 4 itself has proved, style over substance isn’t always the best road to take.  The Armadillo Case has been milled from a [...]

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Apple’s Free Case Program has Ended, So What Now?

That’s it then, the iPhone 4 free case program initiated by Apple following the outcry regarding signal attenuation has ended.  It was made quite clear from the start that this was a temporary thing, and Apple made no secret of it on their website either, saying that to qualify, the phone would have to be [...]

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iPhone 4 Antenna Fix At End of September?

We all knew that the free case program wasn’t going to be the end of Apple’s mission to cure the iPhone 4’s antenna problems, but it wasn’t clear when – or even if – a hardware fix would appear.  Rumors of a redesign and even abandonment of the iPhone 4 on favor of the iPhone [...]

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Make Your iPhone 4 All Better with an Antenn-aid!

The humble sticky plaster was often all that was needed to make a grazed knee feel a thousand times better when we were five, so perhaps the iPhone 4 needs something similar to cure its woes.  Hidden in the wonderful world of Etsy is exactly that, a Band-aid for your iPhone 4 – the Antenn-aid! Available [...]

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Apple Press Conference and Antenna Reference Guide Online

Just in case you haven’t heard enough about the iPhone 4’s antenna, reception, death grip or the latest buzzword, ‘attenuation’, you can now head over to Apple.com and relive all those great Friday press conference moments again and again. The Press Conference. Watch 15 minutes become 30 as Steve Jobs takes to the stage to let us [...]

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Should Apple Recall the iPhone 4? They’ve Got Two Weeks to Decide

Read this: When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal. Nothing new, right?  We’ve been hearing and reading this since the launch of the [...]

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Official Apple Statement on the iPhone 4’s Reception Problem Released

It’s about time!  In a move which really should have been made at the beginning of the week, Apple have issued an official statement, in the form of a letter, to iPhone 4 owners who are experiencing problems with disappearing signal strength bars when the phone is held in a certain way.  Nicknamed the ‘death [...]

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First iPhone 4 Lawsuits Filed

It had to happen didn’t it, and the prize for being first out of the gate goes to Ward & Ward PLLC and Charles A. Gilman LLC, who have filed a class-action lawsuit against both Apple and AT&T for a wide variety of claims, all centered around the phone’s antenna. The legal folk have included general [...]

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iPhone Reception Issue Rumbles On

We posted yesterday about a possible software fix for the iPhone 4’s reception problem, which still hasn’t been seen or further discussed by Apple.  By now, it’s clear the problem isn’t going away and those who have phones that are afflicted by it are not going to be quiet about it. The Boy Genius has been [...]

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Will a Software Update Fix the iPhone 4’s Problems?

By the comments made in our poll on the subject and the many more made elsewhere on the Internet, plus all the videos demonstrating the problem, it’s clear that some iPhone 4s have issues with reception when held a certain way.  While it doesn’t seem to be all 1.7 million phones sold so far, it’s [...]

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