Woz: ''Carry a Second Verizon Phone for Backup''
Just get another phone.
Steve Wozniak, the other Steve who helped found Apple, said in an interview what he thought of the iPhone 4 and its reception woes.
Like everyone else, Woz has some issues with the iPhone 4, as he explains in an interview with Dutch journalist Henk Van Ess.
The first time I tried I was able to duplicate the problem. My wife was driving me to the airport and as soon as I got a short distance from my home, and no longer on wifi, I tried it by accessing a web page (using Safari on my iPhone 4) and observing the progress bar.
As the bar started to proceed I lightly (‘lightly’) touched a couple of fingers to the trouble area and the progress bar froze. When I lifted my fingers the progress bar continued it’s rapid progress. Putting my finger[s] back down halted the progress bar again. Lifting my fingers another time allowed the web page to finish loading.
The Woz has some pretty deep pockets, so this is his solution:
If you can afford it, carry a second Verizon phone for backup. Another option is to carry a Verizon mifi and rely on Skype on your iPhone. I have used this mifi technique to rescue my own, and others’, iPhones on occasion. If you buy a Verizon Palm Pre, you get free mifi on it so that is possible the best ‘compromise’ solution, to carry a Verizon Palm Pre along with your AT&T iPhone 4.
(via TechCrunch.)
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OR you can just buy a DROID X.
eh....
I believe word "redundant" comes to mind...
or is it "retarded"?
This makes me think about something I posted 10 minutes ago regarding computers that can make phone calls, and phones that can be used for general computing, and the idea of unifying everything into one device.
In all silliness, I think I prefer being told that I'm "holding my device wrong" than needing to "carry a second Verizon phone for backup." It's not even the notion of "[if] you can afford it," that bothers me as much as the principle of having to carry not one, but now two phones. What a step backwards...
eh....I believe word "redundant" comes to mind...or is it "retarded"?
I think it's retarded
"...carry a second Verizon phone for backup..."
LOL.
Nice to see Woz doesn't hold back.
I think the Woz did too many drugs when he was with Jobs.
@josh
Droid X has a signed bootloader :-( better off with the original droid.
then you just cross out "iPhone 4" and write "iPod touch 4" in crayon! you would be the first cool kid on the block to have one!
So... to use the iPhone 4, I need to get a different phone?
I believe the word you are looking for is retarded. Obviously, the thing people missed about the iPhone 4 is that you need another cell phone that works.
Hey Steve Wozniak, the "trouble area" you touched is actually a "Pause" button which designed by Mr. Jobs!!!!
So to use one $500+ phone, I need to buy another $300+ phone? Then pay the plans for both? Rather go with the Driod X or EVO 4G where you need to buy just one phone and get superior quality.
Steve, really, its time to cut Woz off. Allow him to become the street person he was destined to be!
2 phones
but why have two phones when you can have one that works
2 phonesbut why have two phones when you can have one that works
Having 2 phones is awesome. Blackberry, Android, and next is iPhone. Cool to have the option for verizon and at&t service
Now he will get fired for promoting a non apple phone.
Unless he rewords his statement to say something like, "by carrying a second phone you reduce wear & tear on your iphone4 by 200%!"
Now he will get fired for promoting a non apple phone.
I don't think he works for Apple. In fact, didn't he part ways with his brainchild long ago?
I've been running a Storm1 + iPhone3G for 18 months... and the iphone is trash comparitively; I would prefer to get my girlfriend on a Verizon network, but her family is on AT&T. If I got rid of my iphone, that would solve 2 problems at once... J/K!!!
(not really)
How many people can afford to subscribe to two phone companies?
How rich do they think their customers are?
Is Woz even working?
Woz is a moron. The whole reason for my Smartphone purchase is to not have to carry multiple devices.
I believe one word describes both Jobs and Woz on this one.
Clueless!
Wow, what an ingenious plan...
Is Woz even working?
No, he is just like Jobs, horsing around in Turkish Bath Houses all day and make millions of dollar a year
mmmm... why not simply using the second phone?
if the second works better than the first one...
maybe he says, have an iPhone to backup your Verizon phone?
You guys fail to realize that that this is just a "feature". Silly non-apple boys. This is such a good feature that you have to pay Lord Jobs $30 to "disable" he "feature". Who makes calls these days anyways.
/endsarcasm
Or you can carry my bullet proof rock solid very fast Blackberry Bold 9700. (former apple and droid owner)
So now all apple fanboy carry two phones huh ~ iphone 3G + iphone 4 ? iphone 3Gs + iphone 4 ? LOL
and now they able to show that they are TRUE apple fan ~ APPLE all the way down ~ and so the bar ~
when your the woz their is no worries im sure the interest alone in his accounts plays for all the computer happiness a geek could dreams of the people to make it work for them :-)
I am not going to set up a RAID just so i can make a damn call.
you realize woz is being sarcastic and punful (and nutty). without this guy we wouldn't be a bunch of pc kit builder/modders. he's the original. his apple systems were exactly that. when he left apple went to 'cool' and 'hip'. he's saying play with toys to get a solution. he's not saying spend a lot, if you have a lot toy and get it working. woz is awesome, so was gates. there is a new commodore out there. good times 2010. look to the future, don't buy an iphone 4 without a $2 rubber band you can add. $2. and forget jobs, he's a fashionista nazi.