Microsoft denied the red ring of death problem for months:
"In the early months after the console's launching, Microsoft stated that the Xbox 360's failure rate was within the consumer electronics industry's typical 3% to 5%."
Third parties have determined it was somewhere between 20 and 40%.
If Nokia were such a great company they would have come clean all at once.
I can't find a link, but I remember hilarious comparisons of earlier Nokia demo videos to the actual devices, so it's not like this is something Nokia (a) just started doing or (b) just accidentally did this once.
All this does is reflect very well on Apple by comparison.
The antenna problem can be clearly demonstrated by anybody with that model iPhone, a finger, and a few minutes.
The RRoD cannot be clearly demonstrated in a few minutes. Presumably Microsoft needed to carefully verify these claims by studying the market and reported failure rates before acknowledging it publicly.
AFAIK the root cause of the iPhone 4 problem is due to closing the loop of the antenna using your finger to complete the loop (converting the metal from a line into a circle, thereby degrading its antenna characteristics).
You should be able to do this only on phones which have an external unsheathed antenna. Which other ones are there?
I had an older Nokia phone that had the antenna near the bottom of the device (to keep it away from your head), and when you had your hand on the device like you would hold an iPhone (fingers on one side, thumb on the other side) you would lose signal strength rapidly.
The same issue was evident in various blackberry devices.
Unfortunately the human body simply is a fantastic sink for RF frequency do the fact that we are mostly made out of water and salt. Yes, the iPhone is simpler in that it allows you to close the loop, but the issue can be found in multiple phones.
Sheathing or no sheathing, humans are hard to transmit through.
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Microsoft denied the red ring of death problem for months:
"In the early months after the console's launching, Microsoft stated that the Xbox 360's failure rate was within the consumer electronics industry's typical 3% to 5%."
Third parties have determined it was somewhere between 20 and 40%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems
Apple responded to "antennagate" within two weeks iirc.
As for Nokia: they faked the stills and video, got caught on the video and confessed. But it turns out they faked the stills too:
http://sefsar.com/nokia-faked-the-still-photos-too
If Nokia were such a great company they would have come clean all at once.
I can't find a link, but I remember hilarious comparisons of earlier Nokia demo videos to the actual devices, so it's not like this is something Nokia (a) just started doing or (b) just accidentally did this once.
All this does is reflect very well on Apple by comparison.
The antenna problem can be clearly demonstrated by anybody with that model iPhone, a finger, and a few minutes.
The RRoD cannot be clearly demonstrated in a few minutes. Presumably Microsoft needed to carefully verify these claims by studying the market and reported failure rates before acknowledging it publicly.
I have an iPhone 4 (which I pre-ordered) and as soon as I read about antennagate I spent quite a bit of time trying to replicate it and could not.
If you're selling tens of thousands of a product with a high brick rate you will have very good stats very quickly.
> The antenna problem can be clearly demonstrated by anybody with any phone, a finger, and a few minutes.
FTFY
AFAIK the root cause of the iPhone 4 problem is due to closing the loop of the antenna using your finger to complete the loop (converting the metal from a line into a circle, thereby degrading its antenna characteristics).
You should be able to do this only on phones which have an external unsheathed antenna. Which other ones are there?
I had an older Nokia phone that had the antenna near the bottom of the device (to keep it away from your head), and when you had your hand on the device like you would hold an iPhone (fingers on one side, thumb on the other side) you would lose signal strength rapidly.
The same issue was evident in various blackberry devices.
Unfortunately the human body simply is a fantastic sink for RF frequency do the fact that we are mostly made out of water and salt. Yes, the iPhone is simpler in that it allows you to close the loop, but the issue can be found in multiple phones.
Sheathing or no sheathing, humans are hard to transmit through.
Here's the video (Nokia N97 ad with commentary): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU&feature=youtu...