Apple customers dissatisfied with the company’s response to a glitch that renders the device’s antenna nearly inoperable are petitioning the company to either fix the problem or hand out free rubber “bumpers” that mitigate its effects.
“A free case is definitely the solution to this,” wrote Richard Kirk, who is among dozens of iPhone 4 users to have signed the petition, which was launched last week by tech blog Gizmodo.
“Don’t get me wrong i’m a huge apple fan, and I think Steve Jobs is a brilliant man. But, I also think it was in poor taste to publicly state that everyone is holding their phones wrong! It needs to be fixed,” wrote another user, “sjud9227.”
Many iPhone 4 buyers have reported that the device’s signal drops dramatically if its bottom left corner is covered by the palm of the user’s hand—a situation common when it’s wielded by lefties. Reports have suggested the problem arises because grasping the phone in such a manner covers a particularly sensitive part of the antenna.
Apple and third-parties offer rubber bumpers that insulate the antenna from human contact, but so far the company has refused to offer the add-on—which can range in price from $10 to $50—for free. Rather, Apple on Friday insisted that iPhone 4′s antenna is not defective, and blamed a software bug for displaying inaccurate signal bars.
PrinterShare is an awkward app to set up; besides installing it on your Mac, you also have to register an account. After that, on your Mac, you have to specify which printer (or printers) you want to share, whether you want to hide your printer from search results (more on this in a moment), find the remote printer as registered online, select the printer (which is now displayed in two panes of the main Mac application window, and then configure the printer (paper size, “notify me on job completion,” encrypt or not, and so on). In addition, a third window appears when you click on the Mac application’s “incoming” button, and that provides you with a variety of options, including setting default permissions (automatically download and print from approved users, wait for approval, remove, and so forth).
This all makes sense, in a way, because PrinterShare is designed to enable you to print remotely, over the Web, and to allow multiple users to print to the same machine remotely. (For example, employees can all remotely print to a shared printer.) However, there’s no apparent option for simply printing over a local network. And although you can choose to hide your printer from search results (when you are searching for a printer from the iPhone app), it seems that the only way for users to find their own printer is to make it public and find it; then, once that’s done, they can hide it from search results. It’s a confusing process, in part because developer Dynamix Software attempts to protect users from having their printers hijacked by unknown users. It seems, however, that the first option should simply enable you to link your iPhone to your printer by using your user ID, and that “searching” for printers should be a secondary option (because it would probably be unnecessary for most users).
MuscleNerd, the Dev Team did not take long to test the tools they keep in reserve for future firmware release 4.0. In the video below, it shows an iPhone with firmware 4.0, identifiable with the application to connect to VNC, which the jailbreak has been done.
The ad is promising, especially since this jailbreak seems to have been made without great difficulty. It actually states have been content to exploit a vulnerability already present in firmware 3.1.3, which helps to overcome the protections put in place by Apple.
It remains to know when and how will these tools available to jailbreak. Until the release of 4.0, many iPhone users would like to operate properly because the jailbreak their device 3.1.3 …
There is still no information on a possible firmware 4 for the iPhone, it is probably the shadow of Firmware 3.2, currently in
finalization to equip the iPad (what about the iPhone). Nevertheless released today is a rumor or indiscretion reported by AppleInsider site that the firmware 4 bring multi task for third party applications (recall that the native Apple applications are used for some multi task already: iPod phone for example).