Apple, “stunned” by their own discovery, announced today that the reason the iPhone 4 has been losing bars when held a certain way is that iPhones have been been embedded with a “totally wrong” formula for determining signal strength from the very beginning.
“The big drop in bars is because the high bars were never real in the first place” – so goes the company’s official statement, in which Apple announced its plan to make available a free software update to fix the problem.
The statement is a bit confusing considering there appears to be no standard formula in the industry for translating signal strength into visual bars, and still, I can’t think of any benefit to making such a thing up. If anything, this turn of events makes Apple look even more stupider.
So I guess this is the other shoe Jobs asked us to stay tuned for, but I get the feeling this isn’t the final act in the saga of the iPhone 4 blunder. More shoes will be a-fallin’ in the near future.
Nah, I need a keyboard on my phone.
I read somewhere that even if the signal strength registered as low as 40% (in the root of the OS), the phone would still show the 5 bars of signal strength.
I'm willing to bet that most other cell phone companies employ a similar algorithm. It's just that these problems are certainly magnified when you sell 1.5-1.7 million of the devices in a day or so.
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