iPhone 4 review flawed
The iPhone 4 should not have been awarded 5 stars, because it clearly has antenna problems.
Solving this by putting a case over the phone or "holding it differently" is not really a neat solution, is it?
The Whathifi editors chose to dismiss the problem by stating that they personally did not experience any problems. This is kind of like claiming that the sun shines all over the UK, because you personally can see the sun from your window. Not quite a solid scientific approach.
Despite the countless features mobile phones have nowadays, the main function of a phone still is to make phone calls. A phone which has serious problems with making phone calls does not deserve the "perfect score". Major tech sites did acknowledge the iPhone 4 flaws. It's a little disappointing that the Whathifi editors did not.
I"ve had my iphone 4 for a month now and have not had any antenna issues either.If I remember chebby also found his to be fine too.btw I hold the phone in the normal way when making or receiving calls.
You signed up just to post that... after all this time (since the review was first published)? If that doesn't epitomise "trolling" I don't know what does...
FWIW, I've had an iPhone 4 for nearly a year now and not had a single problem with it, phone/antenna functionality included.
iPhone 4 owner, and not had the problem once
As a rule if thumb, if someone adds 'gate' on the end of a story in modern times, it is a pretty good indicator that the story is being blown out of proportion.
Indeed, as Carl Bernstein was saying on the radio only last night.
A phone with a single-core 800Mhz (clocked) processor with limited video/audio format support and no support for flash or java etc and still costing the earth even though its 12+months old.
i think 3 out of 5 would be more accurate - going up to maybe 4 when IOS5 comes out in October (although the competition will have improved still further by then)
An HTC Sensation beats it all ends up. There's at least half a dozen droids out there that leave the Iphone trailing in their wake.
Certain review scores in the mag are somewhat strange - and u wonder if there are other factors at work.
A phone with a single-core 800Mhz (clocked) processor with limited video/audio format support and no support for flash or java etc and still costing the earth even though its 12+months old.
i think 3 out of 5 would be more accurate - going up to maybe 4 when IOS5 comes out in October (although the competition will have improved still further by then)
An HTC Sensation beats it all ends up. There's at least half a dozen droids out there that leave the Iphone trailing in their wake.
Certain review scores in the mag are somewhat strange - and u wonder if there are other factors at work.
I can assure you there are no factors at work other than trying to find people the best entertainment products in our opinion. Simple as that. Our smartphone reviews may vary from others because we're primarily interested in music and video performance and usability; as What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision we have that understandable priority.
Also worth nothing that the original Samsung Galaxy S won our multimedia phone of year in 2010 (beating the iPhone 4) and that the S2 has just got another glowing review.
A phone with a single-core 800Mhz (clocked) processor with limited video/audio format support and no support for flash or java etc and still costing the earth even though its 12+months old.
i think 3 out of 5 would be more accurate - going up to maybe 4 when IOS5 comes out in October (although the competition will have improved still further by then)
An HTC Sensation beats it all ends up. There's at least half a dozen droids out there that leave the Iphone trailing in their wake.
Certain review scores in the mag are somewhat strange - and u wonder if there are other factors at work.
Although it does have Flac support via an app (like a droid), a superior stock music player, the easiest UI in the business, a superb screen, excellent on-device purchasing of movies/music, wireless back up to other iOS devices, back up of purchases apps allowing easy transfer, great battery life, 720p video capture and so on.
It's each to their own really. I've owned several Android devices, and they've ALL been very good. There's something that always brings me back to Apple though. It may not do everything but what it does it does well.
Your point on the reviews is flawed though. Your comments suggest that you would rate 7 or more Android devices ahead of the iPhone in your rankings. There really aren't 7 droid devices on sale in the UK that beat an iPhone on anything but the most subjective test.
Clockspeed on it's own is an irrelevant metric, as are most statistics taken in isolation. Most android phones have a bunch of gubbins layered on top of the OS from the networks and handset manufacturers, bloating it and slowing it down. Your average user doesn't want to root their phone to change the OS version. Clock speed is an irelavent test unless all devices tested run the same software.
In the real world, the iPhone is fast and I have never heared anyone criticising it's speed outside of lab testing. (I never implied android was slow, just that the iPhone was fast...) The software is more important than hardware figures, why do you think apple has been so successful basing it's marketing around real world functionality rather than clock speed and ram?
3 years in, Apple has taken smartphone Market leadership from Nokia with no Flash support, the Market has spoken, it's time to let this one go! No one outside of internet forums cares!
Certain review scores in the mag are somewhat strange - and u wonder if there are other factors at work.
Strange to who? I've read a few movie reviews which I've considered strange as I've hated the films, but astonishingly, it turned out that actually the reviewer and I had different viewpoints, rather than him taking bribes from the director / producer.
Yes it has. http://www.whathifi.com/news/google-android-overtakes-iphone-in-the-uk-smartphone-market
The world is significantly larger than our 'empire' thesedays!
These are 2 different things here. Apple has overtaken Nokia in smartphones, but the number of Android phones combined (HTC, Samsung etc.) have had an accelerated growth worldwide, faster than iOS.
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This is a Hi-Fi magazine, not a tech magazine. The focus will be on its audio & video performance, not "antennagate".
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