Tag: RECEPTION

Apple may still refuse to admit that its iPhone 4 is plagued with design flaws, but Consumer Reports certainly won't. In a recent blog post, the company's testers confirmed that the signal problems many have noticed with the new iPhone are, indeed, the result of faulty design. After testing different phones in a so-called "radio frequency isolation chamber," engineers noticed that when they ...

After being widely lampooned for blaming its iPhone 4's reception problems on how users hold it, Apple has finally come out with a more legitimate-sounding, but equally head-scratching response to the issue. In a press release, the company said, "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." As it ...

Having trouble finding a signal with your new iPhone 4? Apple says it's probably your own fault. As it turns out, if you hold the phone in a way that blocks the iPhone's bottom left-hand corner, you might experience technical difficulties. Responding by e-mail to a frustrated iPhone 4 user and Engadget reader, Steve Jobs reportedly said, "Just avoid holding it that way." Engadget ...

SNL's Weekend Update segment, the unheralded precursor to fake news shows like 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' has long been the show's bastion of social commentary, where the Kevin Nealons, Colin Quinns, or Tina Feys of the world could wittily report the week's news in a series of pithy one-liners. For years, they've feasted on eviscerating big names and easy topical targets like Bill ...

We need to jump in here and stop the spread of some misinformation. A story that started as a round of Ask Metafilter (a blog that seeks answers by harvesting the minds of commenters) has been picked up by a number of big name blogs. We're not sure if the others went back and read the original post, or if they all just got their info from the first blog to pick it up, but they all managed to get ...

Living in a small town means feeling a certain closeness to your fellow villagers. Nowhere is that more true than in the tiny hamlet of East Prawle in the U.K. You see, the tiny town of just 200 is a cellular dead zone, except for one spot that magically gets reception – a park bench. Day and night, Prawlers line up and pack onto the bench waiting for their chance to gab (and completely ...