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Richard Gaywood
Personal blog · fscked.co.ukhardwareculture
Richard Gaywood writes Tumblr, a personal blog at fscked.co.uk about hardware and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Only one bare link to a follow-up post, shared in a thread on Apple's letter about the iPhone 4. The linked post appears to be Richard Gaywood's update on that iPhone 4 controversy.
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A personal website written by Richard Gaywood. I write about Apple at TUAW, technology and science at Action at a Distance, and about food at Objection: Salad!. I'm on Twitter too: @penllawen. I put...
What Hacker News says?
Seems like Apple put the algorithm in place via OS 2.1 update back in '08. http://www.newsoxy.com/technology/apple-iphone/article11156.... If you don't remember, back then every blogger was saying things like "my signal has improved drastically with this update!!11!!1one". AT&T's recommendation = more accuracy and less reality distortion. (Look at the graph Gruber linked to for what iPhone 4 currently uses for algor…
Comment linking /post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefully-shows-that-im-not
on “Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4”Submitted More on the iPhone 4 signal issue as a story · 8 points
HN discussionthe antenna issue seems like it indeed is software and really a non-issue. the "feature" to show 50% of signals as 5 bars was introduced in OS 2.1 update back in '08. Here is a graphic to showcase that: http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull... The fix is to undo that hard-coded reality distortion field into AT&T's recommended formula. In this case, AT&T isn't the bad guy as it seems like apple…
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on “Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4”Submitted On Apple’s statement about iPhone reception strengths as a story · 1 points
HN discussionApple put the algorithm in place via OS 2.1 update back in '08. http://www.newsoxy.com/technology/apple-iphone/article11156.... If you don't remember, back then every blogger was saying things like "my signal has improved drastically with this update!!11!!1one". This is what the graphical representation of that update was: http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull... As you can see, over 50% = 5 b…
Comment linking /post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefully-shows-that-im-not
on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”not sure why the downvote. backup source is: http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull... the RDF was put in back in '08 via OS 2.1 update to "improve the accuracy of the 3G signal".
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”This is why: http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/update-i-have-a-followup-...
Comment linking /post/754590440/update-i-have-a-followup-piece-about-apples-new
on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”This is because right now, ~50% of the range = 5 bars. See: http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull...
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”Actually Apple seemed to have biased the iPhone's display of bars to show 5 bars when the signal falls in the top 50% of the range. As Gruber noted, the exposed antenna in iPhone 4 highlighted the downside to that issue -- when you're near the floor of the 50% range, you suddenly go down in bars dramatically. So the fix is to make what was fake before, more accurate. Source (from Gruber): http://fscked.co.uk/post/75…
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”From Gruber's article, this sheds some light to what Apple currently uses to show 5 bars (graphic shows heavy bias towards top portion): http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull... The fix coming must be more evenly distributed aka more accurate.
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”gruber linked to this on what Apple currently uses as their formula (neat graphic included): http://fscked.co.uk/post/754590440/this-infographic-hopefull... AT&T's formula must be not so heavily weighted towards 5 bars as what Apple is currently using.
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”I could care less about the signal problem. The proximity sensor thing is insanely annoying. I am much much more likely to end the call or put it on mute than I am to drop the call due to reception issues. I've exchanged the phone once already and the replacement phone has the same issue. At first, I thought it was my face (shape? texture?), or the way I was holding it (am I suppose to push it with force against my…
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on “Apple letter about iPhone 4”
