★ July 7th
A well-placed little birdie told me over the weekend that they sold a grand total of 503 Kins before they pulled the plug. 503.
★ July 8th
What you need to understand here is that where a journalist would has a bullshit detector, John Gruber has a Bias Reinforcement Unit. It's generally tuned to the same resonate frequency as the Cupertino Reality Distortion Field. For example. . .Adam Lein points to the Kin Facebook app’s stats page, which indicates there are 8,800 Kin-using Facebook users. If this is accurate, it means my little birdie was wrong about Microsoft only having sold 503 units. I’m not convinced this Facebook stat is meaningful, though.
★ July 2nd
★ July 5th
- Consumer Reports: ‘iPhone 4’s Supposed Signal Woes Aren’t Unique, and May Not Be Serious’
Who am I supposed to believe, the sensationalist hacks at Consumer Reports, or the straight-shooters at Gizmodo?
- Consumer Reports Update on iPhone 4 Reception Issue
Mike Gikas:
While we’ve been unable to date to create the reported conditions in our National Testing Center in Yonkers, New York, I and a colleague did repeatedly experience loss of signal when using an iPhone 4 a few miles north of there today.
While in my home, I held the iPhone in my left hand, gripping it with normal pressure. My palm covered a gap between parts of the metal band that forms the outer ring of the iPhone and serves as its antenna. As I did so, I moved my pinky finger to the corresponding gap on the other side.
Almost immediately, the signal strength began to drop in the meter from the original three or four bars — depending on my location within the house — to zero bars. The drop took about 5 seconds.
So we seem to be nearing consensus. With strong reception, bridging that antenna gap doesn’t matter much. With weak reception, bridging that gap is enough to lose the signal.
Comments