At least three class-action lawsuits have been filed against Apple over the iPhone 4 reception problem in the past couple of days. These lawsuits have been filed in the US District Courts in California, Maryland and Texas.
The plaintiffs have accused Apple on ten counts that include charges like unfair business practices, defect in design, intentional misrepresentation, and violation of the Federal Communications Act.
Users who have upgraded their iPhones to iOS 4 may have experienced delays while syncing with Microsoft Exchange.
These users may notice that applications like Exchange ActiveSync Mail, Contacts and Calendar take an inordinate amount of time while connecting to the server or while syncing data.
After hearing from the experts about iPhone 4’s widely publicized reception issues, we had hoped that Apple will be able to magically fix it with a software update.
Apple has just released a public statement to confirm that they’re incorrectly displaying the signal strength, which will be fixed with a software update that will provide users a much better indication of the reception that they are getting in a given area.
There has been a lot of discussion lately over signal reception and proximity sensor related issues on the new iPhone. However, to be fair, we must also note that iPhone 4 comes with lots of improvements over its predecessor.
One of the significant improvement in the Apple's new iPhone is its battery. Apple has claimed that the new iPhone would offer close to 40% longer battery life compared to iPhone 3GS.
Apple has incorporated over 100 new features and enhancements in the latest version of iOS. While certain features like multitasking and folder management have received a lot of publicity, we have also been constantly learning about several other minor, yet interesting, enhancements in iOS 4.
We had recently written about 9 iOS 4 changes that you may not have noticed. Here is a list of five more changes introduced in iOS 4:
Apple had announced earlier this week that the company recorded their most successful product launch in history with iPhone 4. According to reports, more than 1.7 million units of the new iPhone were sold over the first weekend.
Despite the successful launch, Apple has had to face criticism following multiple issues that users have noticed on their new iPhone.
In October last year, Mozilla Labs CEO, John Lilly had indicated that his company would be launching an iPhone app for Firefox in the future.
The company has now announced that their first ever iPhone app – Firefox Home, has now been submitted to the Apple App Store for approval. The new app will provide iPhone users a quick access to their Firefox desktop history, open tabs and bookmarks.
