Apple has created “a design fix for the iPhone 4 that more adequately insulates the transceiver,” said Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, who spoke to the company's manufacturing partners.
Apple has told its manufacturers to alter the iPhone production process to include an internal component that will insulate the defective antenna connection that has disrupted the phone's signal reception, said Kumar. This internal bumper will give Apple (more…)

The iPhone 4′s radio woes are well-documented. The most recent tests, like our own, show dramatic radio performance issues when a part of the external antenna is gripped.

This week on the Roundtable, we delve into the electronic and radio engineering issues affecting the iPhone 4′s antennas, as well as other phones. Our guests are CNET’s own Maggie Reardon, author of 5-bar phone signal: What’s it get you?, and AnandTech’s Brian (more…)

Bob Egan, an electromagnetic engineer who has experience in exactly the kind of issues that Apple is facing with
4 claims that Consumer Reports study is flawed.
“To even reasonably run a scientific test, the iPhone should have been sitting on a non-metallic pedestal inside an anechoic chamber. The base station simulator should have been also sitting outside the chamber and had a calibrated antenna plumbed to it from inside the chamber.
I have (more…)

Are you facing the issue? Folks at Macworld have few solutions to fix the issue:
This will reset all network settings, including passwords, VPN, and APN settings.
All your preferences are reset, but no data or media is deleted.
appears. Slide to power off your device. When it is off, press the power button to turn it back on.
We believe that the issue is a software bug that seems to affect users who have setup their iPhone 4 from an older (more…)

In the complaint, the plaintiffs have argued that Apple was aware of the inherent defects in the
and that these defects were maliciously concealed from consumers. The lawsuits have sought for damages from Apple besides requesting the court to order an injunction on the company to ”
“. The lawsuit filed in California reads:
“The iPhone 4 manifests design and manufacturing defects that were known to Defendants before it was released which were (more…)

Dear iPhone 4 Users,
The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple ’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.
To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception (more…)

Despite Apple 's efforts to keep the App Store clean, it may not have entirely succeeded according to Marco Arment, the developer behind the popular Instapaper app. According to him the App Store is littered with several apps that he says indulge in spammy tactics. He points out to a search for ”
) on the App Store to elaborate his point. Angry Birds is a popular
from Clickgamer. Arment says that a search for this game returns several results (more…)

The analyst believes that “an unspecified production problem” could result in initial distribution being limited to the U.S. or could even get delayed entirely.
“We have … heard that the upcoming iPad launch may be somewhat limited as a manufacturing bottleneck has impacted production of Apple 's newest device,” Misek writes. “An unspecified production problem at the iPad's manufacturer, Hon Hai Precision, will likely limit the launch (more…)

The issue was caused by a unicode character used in zodttd's packages file. This character brought out a bug in cydia which caused it to not launch. (a similar problem was created in the past when another community source missed a line break between entries.) This is not the fault of anyone at macciti or zodttd this is simply a bug in cydia.
As it stands now, the issue has been fixed. However, should you still be experiencing crashing at startup, (more…)

Gigabyte Technology has released a beta BIOS update that could potentially resolve the issue for those users whose systems run on the company's motherboard. However, help is yet to arrive for others who have their computers running on Asus or MSI motherboards.
The issue, as we reported last week, occured most prominently on computers that ran Windows 7 powered by Intel P55 chipset. At that time, both Microsoft and Intel had promised to look (more…)