'Stunned' Apple to fix iPhone signal problem - Jul. 2, 2010: "The iPhone 4 'grip of death' signal-strength problem stems from a bug that has been with Apple's bestselling smart phone all the way back to the original iPhone, Apple announced Friday, saying it had found a 'simple and surprising' cause for the widely reported reception issues.
But Apple's 'explanation' raised more questions than it answered.
'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,' the company wrote in a statement posted on its website. 'Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.'
That means, for example, that iPhones sometimes display four bars when they should be displaying two. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) said users reporting a significant drop in bars when they hold their iPhone 4 are probably in an area of 'very weak signal strength' but were unaware of that because the phone displayed four to five bars.
'Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place,' the company said.
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Huh, Apple "stunned?" Since when...?
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