New iPhone 4 antenna design due at the end of September, addresses attenuation?

Rumor

Mexican technology site canal-mx is reporting that Apple will be reengineering its iPhone 4 antenna design and that the redesigned handsets will be available after September 30th. The news comes courtesy of Marco Quatorze, Tecel’s Director of Value Added Services. Telcel recently began offering the iPhone 4 to its customers and Mr. Quatorze was on the record when he explained that his company would have the same version of the iPhone 4 that is sold in the U.S.; complete with antenna attenuation issues. He noted that Telcel’s customers would be eligible for a free case until September 30. Quatorze then stated that after the 30th a new revision of the iPhone 4, with some sort of internal antenna fix, would be made available by Apple. The news, if true, certainly will rekindle the antenna-gate talks, lawsuits, and comment flame wars that — to be totally honest — we haven’t really missed all that much. We’ve reached out to Apple for comment and will update the article if we receive a response.

[Via MacRumors]

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  • DavidDavid

    To be honest I feel like a sucker now, I am on my second IPhone 4 . Without the case my phone is as good as an iPod touch without wifi.
    From now on, I will no longer be an early adapter. I feel cheated .

    • Jason

      You’re full of shit, the iPhone can be used in many ways without holding it in the death grip. Irregardless, from my understanding, the grip only attentuates the gsm signal anyway numb nuts.

      • Irregardless

        Irregardless is a word, numb nuts.

      • dumbass

        you mean ISNT right?

      • Dave

        You mean “isn’t” or “is not” right?

      • Double Negative

        Irregardless: Without no regard. No, that doesn’t make sense either. It has to be irregard, or regardless, According to Urban Dictionary “Used by people who ignorantly mean to say regardless” It appears it is a word that ignorant people use make themselves as confusing as possible.

  • Apocalypse

    Suckers!

    Those who bought the iP4 after the problem was realized are sheep.

    Baa Baa

    • rob

      this may be true, but millions of angry sheep is still a force to contend with!

  • vinny

    i beleive apple will recall all the bad iphone 4 and replace them with the new iPhone 4 antenna design once it comes out!

    • ted

      no way……but I hope ur right

    • tedkord

      Why would they recall them? Steve already told you that there is no antenna design problem.

    • Pondus

      Anyone who – for any reason – is not satisfied with their Iphone 4, can get a full refund, no questions asked. How can that be cheating people??

  • http://VailLaw.com Bruce Chapman

    It seems strange to me that given all the excitement attributed to the comments of Marco Quatorze, Tecel’s Director of Value Added Services, that Quatorze has not made a comment to clarify his comments.

  • Dave

    Death grip doesn’t affect my iphone at all, first thing I did on it was ring my friend and hold my finger over the dead spot for the whole call, no difference. I reckon its something to do with AT&T tbh, all the videos I’ve seen this “death grip” bullshit on have been on the AT&T network. Send me a link to a video which tests it on a different network if you have seen one :)

  • Bruce

    Anyone who believes that the greedy control- freak Jobs is going to recall all iPhone 4′s sold before 9/30/10 and replace them with a redesigned iPhone 4 still believes in Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy. He did not even offer “free” case until the out-cry from user and media became so great that it began to impact Apple stock and the legal system. As for the free case, I ordered mine more than a month ago and still have not received it. Now, once and if I ever get it and if I’m still not satisfied with the phone does anyone truly believe Jobs will give me a full refund 5+ weeks out? Steve Jobs is the type that if you ever shake hands with him you better check for any jewelry you had on your hands and count your fingers!

  • small brain

    there are some bogus videos online. but with no case i dropped 4 calls in a row one day. partly because of at&t’s crappy coverage in my area and the rest from the bars dropping from holding the phone in a normal way.

    it is better with a case. but even with a case sometimes it drops a bar just from picking the phone up.

    a few years back apple declared that a few dead pixels on your brand new laptop screen was normal. i have a dell that my niece and nephew have peppered with hand prints for years and it is fine. a few dead pixels on a new laptop being considered normal is for lack of a better word… retarded.

    i having a difficult time wanting to support anything less than perfect from apple anymore because of this.

    a bumper is not really a true fix. especially when sometimes the signal still goes down. seen some charts somewhere on line that show the numbers and it’s performing worse across the board (w no case, w case, w case + held in hand) for signal strength that the last version of the phone.

    that seems kinda bad too.

  • dario

    Right. Supply issues? Nice excuse. Perfect timing with the bumper program ending late September.

    How they handle this will be a true indicator of how they value their customers. Fix the antenna or let the early adopters rot or buy a new phone outright. I am guessing the latter. Of course, as the earlier poster stated, the iDenial app runs rampant on many iPhones. I am sure the defenders will make up their excuses.

    All the more reason I am staying clear of Apple. They just disgust me too much at this point to pluck down money for an over priced product.

  • Mark

    The CAPTIVATE is so sweet…If they’d of added a FLASH I’d be stoked!

  • PAPINYC

    Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-waaaa….
    What you should really be crying about is that poor grammar and syntax you generated on that crammed-up virtual keyboard. Did you not learn how not to dangle propositions in English? Do you even know how to identify propositions? Did you learn anything about comma placement or that using “double negatives” is truly ignorant? If you’re going to write more than one sentence in your posts, please reconsider and stop at just one sentence because you’ve got G.E.D. stamped all over your devolved post.

  • PAPINYC

    And, yes, I mean PREPOSITIONS! With an “e”.

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