NEWS: Apple looks for an Iphone antenna engineer

that doesn't mean anything. jobs open up for a variety of reasons and it doesn't mean that there isn't anyone else there with experience. of course your article doesn't mention that it is for *both* the iphone and the ipad.

yea, twice the sales from the previous model is a huge backfire.

there's more to it than just the antenna and some users are reporting that the phone can make and receive calls in situations where their previous iphone (and other phones for that matter) could not.

comment: you have an agenda.

I f*ck engineers. Just for the record.

John Navas wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Just watch them. There will be ANOTHER "software update" that will "solve the antenna issue", just like before on iPhone 1 to placate the fanboiz, that will boost the signal level meter up to make it look better and make a big miracle that will keep the company from doing the right thing by recalling this PoS and replacing the antenna system with one on TOP, where it should have been in the first place.

nospam wrote in news:300620100919538067% snipped-for-privacy@nospam.invalid:

Apple's very lucky to have these fawning lovers they can do anything to who will defend the company's idiotic decisions to his death, no matter what's staring him in the face. People like this one would accept anything Jobs pushed on him even if the goddamned thing wouldn't make a phone call.

I'd love to see them really screw up and forget to install the phone transceiver in a few hundred thousand to see if the fanboiz would really accept it without one...which this one would be standing first in line to pay retail for.....(c;]

except that just about every cellphone has the antenna on the bottom to reduce sar levels, among other reasons.

nobody is defending anything.

there is definitely an issue with the current iphone but the exact reasons are *not* known. there are many factors that contribute to it, and quite a few users are reporting that the new iphone works better than any other phone they've had. other users have problems, some of whom can only duplicate it in certain locations, not all.

You know, the Apple Jobs site shows the date the job was posted.

I just looked, and I only found four Antenna related openings and none of the posting are very new (January and last October).

Antenna Engineer-iPhone 4915489 Santa Clara Valley 29-Jan-2010

Antenna Integration Program Manager 4672770 Santa Clara Valley

iPhone OTA Wireless Systems Engineer 4864807 Santa Clara Valley

Techical Program Manager - Antenna 4854264 Santa Clara Valley 11-Jan-2010

So Navas believes everything he reads in the sensationalist papers when it suits him to spread the sensationalism.

Facts be damned! Navas is on a MISSION!

it certainly looks that way. he clearly has an agenda.

"Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don?t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

To fix this, we are adopting AT&T?s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone?s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.

We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G."

Well I suppose people will make of that what they will, 3G and 3GS as well.

That is too too funny!

IOW, fanboi software update pegs the meter at "4"...

News wrote in news:Ot6dncjyAJdFuLPRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@speakeasy.net:

Isn't this EXACTLY what Apple did to version 1 when it sucked?

1. You pay 0 for mobile broadband you don't use
2. You pay 5 to not use the carrier anymore
3. You pay for committing to a new, two-year contract
4. You pay 0 for the high-end data plan you don't use
5. You pay full price for apps you don't use "Using an iPhone means companies are going to rip you off by charging you real money, and providing nothing at all in return. And there's really nothing you can do about it."

Let the rationalizations begin!

How are any of those points any different with any other smartphone on AT&T?

You could replace "iPhone" in that article with "Blackberry Bold," "Aria," or "Tilt2."

Get a life, moron.

they're not. it's just more soundbites to bash.

or any android device, and you could replace at&t with verizon or t-mobile.

The Aria is, IIRC- AT&T's Android selection is pretty thin, (and rather crippled,) compared to other carriers'. Insert your own Apple-appeasing conspiracy theory there.

In concept only- some of the points were AT&T-specific, like the tiered data and tethering plans.

i don't doubt that at&t is crippling their android offerings while having an exclusive on the iphone.

verizon has hinted at tiered plans and charges for tethering. sprint charges more for tethering than at&t does, and also requires paying $10 for 4g even if you don't live in an area with 4g. where's the lawsuit on that one? :)