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Aug 9 2010

iPhone 4 death-touch risks known for 1 to 2 years?

As part of the fallout from Mark Papermaster’s exit from Apple, a couple of reports have surfaced indicating Apple knew about the potential for iPhone 4 antenna “death-touch” (detuning at the spot on the lower [...]


Aug 8 2010

Mark Papermaster, head of iPhone hardware, leaves Apple

Mark Papermaster, whose departure from IBM for Apple led to some high profile legal wrangling, has now left Apple — chronologically following the antennagate saga, though no direct correlation has been reported. Apple spokesman Steve [...]


Aug 4 2010

Woz talks iPhone 4 antenna, Google, and Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently held an interview at the Campus Party in Valencia, Spain. He talked about the iPhone 4’s antenna problems, Apples relationship with Google, his roll at Apple, and his relationship with [...]


Aug 1 2010

Apple pulls rival smartphone antenna performance videos from site

We did not see this one coming but Apple has pulled the antenna performance videos featuring rival smartphones, at least here in the USA. It appears the videos are still live to our friends north [...]


Jul 23 2010

Potential Hiccup in iPhone 4 Free Case Program?

It’s cool that Apple is willing to give us  free bumpers and cases, but their system may be a little “flawed” to say the least.  After the announcement went up, I immediately downloaded the bumper [...]


Jul 16 2010

Apple posts iPhone 4 Antenna Press Conference Video, Antenna Information Page

That was fast! Apple has not only posted up the video of their iPhone 4 Antenna Press conference from earlier today (sadly, without the Q&A), they have also put up a dedicated page to discussion [...]