iPhone 4 Users Can Laugh at the Droid 2′s Antenna Problems
I know it’s not nice to go around pointing and laughing at other’s misfortune, but after everything Apple iPhone 4 users had to put up with lately, I think they deserve a good chuckle. Okay, so we all know about the ‘Antennagate’ problems the iPhone 4 suffers from. Cases are out; software fixes have been deployed, no big deal. It’s not like it ever made the iPhone 4 unusable and its ability to drop calls was exaggerated. Not so for the Motorola Droid 2.
The Droid 2 is apparently having difficulty maintaining a signal even when it is not held. Yes, you read that correctly. It also drops from 3G network connection to EDGE/GRPS when stationary. Oh, and did I mention that the signal strength it reports visibly goes up and down? Okay, Motorola, you screwed up with this one.
While Droid 2 owners wait for a fix or something, the Apple fans can go ahead and laugh. Sure, Apple might have screwed up some things on the iPhone 4. Its competitors got angry that it responded with an “everyone else has problems too.” Then they ran ads mocking it. That all looks like it’s coming back to bite them.
Regardless of where you stand with all of this, just keep something in mind. In the tech blog arena, problems can get overblown. Very, very overblown. It’s not the end of the world if a high-tech product has a design flaw in the first batch. While it might feel good to know that an Android OS smartphone is having its own ‘antennagate’ meltdown, I really do hope that everything gets sorted out for them—I doubt it’s much more than a software glitch.
So what do you think? Should we all go and make fun of the Droid 2 owners? Or should we extend the olive branch and offer our condolences? Decisions decisions. I know you have an opinion of your own so why not let us hear it.
Tags: apple iphone 4, motorola droid 2, antennagate
um the droid 2 rocks! a step above the iphone 4! no problems here only praise! viva la droid!
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yeah the 145 droid 2 users should voice the complaint
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i think we should broadcast the problem such like apples was, so that Motorola has motivation to fix it, otherwise it will just get ignored.
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I think all the new smartphones coming out have some kind of an issue, the only loser is the consumer, the carriers don’t seems to care and the manufacturers keep on pumping out new mobile phones regardless.
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As a new iPhone 4 owner I am thrilled to report that the phone is working wonderfully. It blows my mind everyday. It is stunningly amazing gadget. All the haters…stop hating and love your own. Not one antenna problem at all…I find it hard to believe that this was even as issue.
Face Droido’s and Evoheads.. the iPhone 4 is a rock solid peace of genius!!!
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@droidsareturds
The Nexus One did not die by any fault of its own. It is leaps and bounds better than any iturd. It died because googles store didn’t workout quite how they wanted. The only thing it lacks from the iphone 4 is a front facing camera and a desire to control your thoughts and actions. All I was saying tho is that the Nexus one had really bad signal problem at first and google released a radio update and the problem was fixed. Of course that would be impossible for the iphone 4 as it is poorly engineered POS that no software update could ever fix.
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Oh ah Ouch! ;p
Motorola is showing there back bone again” yikes
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@jared:
The NEXUS ONE? Google’s VERY OWN? It’s dead already no matter how much CPR administration they’ve had on it.
Droids X will be the next NEXUS ONE. Just sold 250K units in the first week. LOL !!!! And they were not talking about the antenna problems it had back then.
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“People aren’t perfect… Phones aren’t perfect” – Steve Jobs
Wise words Steve Jobs.
Stupid companies make stupid phonse. Stupid people buy stupid phones.
Avoid the Droid!!!
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Apple should take out a full page ad pointing out the deficiencies…..how ironic! Lol!
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hella funny. haha. i am an iphone 4 owner and i havent been having problems but all those droid people saying haha. karmas a @*#@)#
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what’s wrong ?
i don’t know if the Droid has the singnal issue , i just knwo my iphone 4 runs well, there is no problem on its antenna, i think my iphone 4 is perfect combining my aneesoft Auxiliary tools~~~ lol~
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I’m pretty sure that Verizon doesn’t have a GSM network. They wouldn’t run on EDGE or GPRS. This doesn’t negate the issue, but I just wanted to clear that up.
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Funny thing is that they say the Droid 2 isn’t really that big of a change from the original Droid. What’s their new add going to have, “Not really much of a difference other than this one sucks worse than the original.” If you wait a couple of weeks and they will have a new Droid X 2 or the Droid 3 you can pick up.
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The thing about Droid is that its a software and not the whole package as is Apple’s iPhone. Apple should look at releasing its OS for use on other phones. That would be interesting.
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How long did it take Apple to acknowledge that the iPhone 4 had an antennae problem? Give or take 23 days. When there were reports that a very select number of Droid X’s had display issues, Motorola and Verizon responded by first acknowledging that there was a problem – something Apple never did – and fixed it in a timely manner. A mere 5 days or so. And if the author did more research, they would have found that the device drops signal even when the phone isn’t being held, so it is a software problem that Motorola and Verizon will likely correct with an OTA update – not a hardware problem. Unlike the iPhone 4. . .
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how much did apple paid for you to wright this article?
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hahahahahahaha ……
I just laugh and laugh ….. hahahahahahaha ….. at that ugly droid and it’s users ….
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Ha! You Droid morons are hilarious. Droes does[n't] get reception.
Brilliant. At LEAST iPhone made amends and atoned for their blemishes.
Having an ad your company [Verizon/Motorola] runs trying to bash Apple for the same problems? PRICELESS. Enjoy your paperweights, pushovers.
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Haha you itards think you have something to make fun of but what will happen is the same thing that happened with the nexus one. They will push out an updated radio soon that will actually fix the problem. Of course you have been sucked in by good ol Stevie boys RDF and actually believe that a a janky case and a worthless software update that doesn’t in anyway change the functionally of the phone (it just more honestly shows how bad it performs) is an acceptable fix. So we’ll see who’s laughing last when motorola and android actually take care of their customers and fix the problem the right way.
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Rofl ! Karma is a $&&€#.
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It is funny. LIke the olde saying “Do onto others as you want them to do to you”. Motorola and FanDroids all mocked the iPhone 4. They are fair game. Plus they deserve 10x the mockery for their “crimes”!
I spit on all Android and Motorola devices now!
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This is kinda funny. I’m an iphone 4 owner and was thinking about ditching it for the Droid 2! Not anymore!
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Anonymous Reply:
November 28th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
@Stephen F, ditch it!
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