Showing posts with label apple iphones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple iphones. Show all posts

Apple gives iPhone buyers bags

 Apple announced Friday that it will give away protective cases to buyers in the latest model of iPhone to counter the problem of interruption of the wireless signal that occurs when the user some way this subject of "superteléfono."

The Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized to customers who are dissatisfied with the iPhone 4. "We will do whatever it takes to make them happy, and if we can make them happy, we will refund you and say sorry to the inconvenience and we'll do better next time," Jobs said at a news conference at the headquarters of the company in Cupertino, California.

Jobs, who expressed irritation at the criticism of the phone, said that no cell has an excellent reception. "We are not perfect," he said. "The phones are not perfect." Jobs showed a video reproduced phones competition, including a Blackberry, they lost the signal to take them in some way.

The CEO of Apple denied that there is a problem with the antenna. "At the moment we do not feel that we have a huge problem to solve," he said. "This has left much of proportion that is incredible."
Apple iphone and her bags

Cell phones usually have the antenna inside the casing. In designing the iPhone in April, Apple opted for a new design using components from the external casing of the phone as an antenna. That saved interior space, but made a point to plug in the bottom left corner blocking the wireless signal.

Consumer Reports magazine said that by covering with a cover corner or even a piece of tape solved the problem. The magazine refused to recommend the phone and on Monday asked Apple to compensate buyers.

More than three million people who have already bought an iPhone 4 can enter the Web site of Apple since the end of next week and request the case "Bumper." Those who buy an iPhone before September 30 will also receive gift sleeve. Apple will send refunds to those who have already bought a bag "Bumper."

Consumer Reports said on Friday that free bags are a good first step toward finding and solving the problem of signal from the iPhone 4.

iPhones reach China by agreement of Apple

China Unicom Ltd. said Friday it will sell the iPhone in China of Apple Inc., after months of rumors about the appearance of this device in the most populous market mobile phones.
The phone probably will go on sale in the fourth quarter following an agreement between the companies, executives said Unicom in Hong Kong. They refused to provide financial details or indicate the price of the iPhone, merely indicating that it will be "competitive."
Unicom, one of three major state companies will be the first Chinese company that officially supports the iPhone, even thousands of devices from other markets are used in China. It is the only company in China that supports the required standard network for the iPhone, called WCDMA.
The mobile market in China is less than the U.S., Japan and other nations in terms of financial scale, but has 650 million mobile accounts and is considered an important target for foreign firms.
"It's an open window for Apple that will allow you to enter this huge market," said the executive Edward Yu, CEO of Analysys International, a high-tech research firm based in Beijing. "But we must see the actual product to determine if they fit well into the bulk of China's population and how the market reacts."
Apple, based in Cupertino, California city, said last month that sales of the iPhone increased their profits in the last quarter by 15% to 1,200 million dollars despite the U.S. recession.
Nokia launches new Linux smartphone.
Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday introduced its first high-end phone with Linux software operated.
The Finnish company had worked with Linux since 2005 using its software in "Internet tablets", devices like a phone plans to access the network that failed to capture market attention in part because it did not allow for phone calls.
The new N900 model, with a cellular connection, touch screen and a sliding keyboard, will sell for about 500 euros, excluding taxes and special offers.
The operating system is Nokia, Symbian, controls half the volume of smart phone market - more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion and Google together.
Nokia said it would work well alongside Linux Symbian in their high-end products.
"This does not Symbian endangered in any way," said Anssi Vanjoki Reuters, Nokia's sales manager.
"Open source Symbian is going to be our main platform, and are expandable and upgradeable everything we can in terms of functionality as well as distribution (...) increasingly populating our product line with Symbian," he said.
Linux is the most popular open source operating systems free and competes directly with Microsoft, which charges for its Windows software and opposes freely sharing its code. Linux providers earn money selling improvements and technical services.