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Its now the end of June, soon it’s going to be the start of July and everyone knows what that means! A new iPhone phone is getting ready to be released to customers on, the 24th of June.

Unbelievably enough the iPhone 4 has it’s fair share of drama around the release, some of the issues as early as Apr of 2010. In early Apr, Gizmodo staff member Jason Chen bought a then top secret iPhone 4 prototype model from a nameless source for a sum of $5,000. Gizmodo.com held intensive coverage of the iPhone 4 and even was discussed on TV stories networks like FoxNews and CNN. His house was later raided by the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team and had his PCs snatched. The explanation for the raid on his domicile was something to do with economic espionage; but how was he guilty of that if all you are doing is buying something? You are not stealing it so whats the issue.

Then when the iPhone was available for pre-order online, the system stopped working but not before over six hundred thousand preorders had been registered. Not just that, ATTs systems were suffering from security breaks and people were accessing other peoples accounts incidentally, and being able to read and edit other patrons info. There were reports of AT&T stores being shut down because of quantity of people making an attempt to preorder and the stress of ATTs systems being far too overloaded. Finally, after hours of bewilderment and screw ups, ATT and closed down the pre-order system. Seems like they needed some home computer repair Burnsville to keep their system up and running.

Mashable journalist Sam Axon reported being mugged while standing in a queue for the iPhone 4 earlier today in Chicago. His tweet on Twitter was as follows “I was just mugged while waiting in line for the iPhone 4. Not kidding.” What’s happened to society? And finally, there are reports abound of the iPhone 4 having issues with its hardware. Gizmodo.com is reporting the iPhone 4 will drop all service if the case of the phone is squeezed near the antenna mount on the side of the case. It turns out that you can bridge two antenna with your finger and that will cause the telephone to drop calls. The solution is as straightforward as a small piece of scotch tape, or put the telephone in a case. Its an easy fix but for $500 should this really be an issue?

People have produced proof that the LCD viewscreen of the iPhone four has Problems with showing errant yellow pixels, stripes and spots just from normal useage. Most likely Apple won’t fix the problem for free and will claim that the user damaged the LCD themselves. Again, should this be an issue at release or should it have been taken care of before the absurdly expensive phone was sold to the public? Sony learned that lesson some time ago with a huge recall for digital camera repair to fix the CCD sensor on millions of cameras consumers had purchased.

Apple has a history of making excellent devices, but with the knowledge that the iPhone 4 was going to be as hot as it is, they really should have invested more in research and development. It’s much easier to cope with design issues before you put item into mass production than it is to cope with them after the consumer has acquired the item. You don’t want to have a product recall for millions of buyers with home computer repair service Prior Lake after the fact. We will have to wait and see if the bigwigs at Apple will think back upon this experience when producing devices in the future.
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