Antennagate Is Over

Anyone who has read any technology news today is aware that Apple held a press conference about the iPhone 4 antenna issue. The data is pretty good.

• Returns rates are better than the previous iPhone model.
• The dropped call rates are less than 1% worse than the previous model iPhone.

Link: Full Press Conference Presentation (No Q&A Session)

As I suspected, the media has blown this way out of proportion.

You know, I think it’s amazing how people get worked up about these things. Perception is everything, isn’t it? When you’re worked up about something (i.e., being emotional about it), it’s very difficult to step back and actually look at the facts. And the facts, in this case, don’t seem to indicate a problem that’s proportional to the outrage people have been expressing lately.

So, there you have it — now we get free cases. Fuck yeah!

Anecdotally, my only problem with my reception isn’t something anyone has mentioned yet. I would leave my phone next to my bed when going to sleep, but I’d wake up with it either saying “No Service” or “Searching…” instead. A simple reset of the phone fixed the problem, which makes me think it’s a software bug.

Sure enough, Apple released iOS 4.0.1 yesterday which I installed last night. I woke up this morning and my phone was behaving normally, as I had hoped. It would seem that 4.0.1 has fixed my particular problem, but one instance of success does not indicate a pattern, as a colleague of mine likes to say. I’ll just have to wait and see.