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Image source : Engadget During iPhone 4 press conference last week, Steve Jobs said that Apple would provide free cases to anyone who buys the iPhone 4 before September 30, the free case offer includes a choice of either Apple’s bumper or a third-party case. As part of that offer, Apple said it would offer refunds to iPhone 4 users who had already bought bumpers from Apple. True to its words, [...]

During the press conference last week, when Steve Jobs showed how the BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris and Samsung Omnia II suffered from signal loss while held in a certain way, even though he had omitted mentioning Nokia, Nokia claimed it always prioritizes antenna performance over physical design. Apple has now rectified its mistake, now Apple’s Smartphone Antenna Performance page has added [...]

SmartPhones Nokia was quick to rebuff Steve Jobs claim that even Nokia phones (among others) faced the ‘death grip’ issue. Nokia repeated its stance that the freedom to hold the phone naturally was important. Nokia claimed to test its phones for grip and to make sure that either hand wouldn’t block the cellular signal regardless of the position. “Nokia has invested thousands [...]

iPhone 4 In the hastily summoned press conference  on Friday Steve Jobs offered  no apologies for the iPhone 4’s reception issues and blamed the media for exaggerating , “blown so out of proportion, it’s incredible” he said. Jobs singled out reports from Bloomberg and Gizmodo ( Gizmodo bought an iPhone 4 which was lost by an Apple Engineer in a bar, and now faces legal [...]