How this iPhone 4 FIXED AntennaGate!

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In early 2011, Apple released the CDMA iPhone 4 for Verizon - a phone that not only fixed the infamous "Antennagate", but also had no SIM tray! In this video, we discuss the why and the how- and look at Antennagate as a whole, especially compared to the Bendgate controversy response.

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Some fun obscure Apple content for you all today, hope you enjoy! - I never realized just how in-depth Apple's response to Antennagate was, especially compared to the Bendgate controversy 4 short years later. Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, definitely added a personal touch to everything Apple did.

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Something that seems to have been forgotten to time is that shortly after the iPhone 5 launched, there were reports of them coming with dings and dents brand new out of the box. I remember Apple saying that those dings and dents fell within normal error rates at the time and that was pretty much all they did to acknowledge it. I believe it was mostly only the black model that was affected which is probably why they switch it to being "space gray" for the 5S and SE1 models.

DDavEE
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LMAO the unbox therapy shade i love it 😭

cuteronrave
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The iPhone 4 was truly a revolutionary product. Retina display, the first custom Apple chip, the build. It looked phenomenal.

dfferen
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Steve Jobs was way better for Apple than Tim Apple has been, he just can't Cook the same.

producerevan
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I lived through antenna gate and had one of the AT&T phones that would drop a call or lose signal if you held it across those antenna points. However, the iPhone 4 was probably the first mainstream phone that being made of glass on the front and back require the use of a case, and after the first month or two, when people started realizing this thing would break when you dropped it, started putting cases on which alleviated the problem and pretty much it went away overnight.

MightyRob
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The CDMA iPhone 4 actually became the basis for the 4S as both phones share similar underpinnings save for the SIM tray and upgraded SOC in the 4S.

There's actually a provision for SIM cards on CDMA called Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM), not to mention that some Verizon phones do have a GSM SIM slot for roaming iirc.

blakegriplingph
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The Verizon iphone 4 was my first iphone in 2012 (hand me down). I was always interested as to why it had no sim card tray

corey
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it is so rare to see Apple admit they made a mistake with their products, i think because the antennagate was affecting way too many users they had to do something, it was probably affecting their sales too, it's so ironic that they fixed the issue with the 4s in 2011 and then had the dying graphics issue on the 2011 Macbooks .

ColinsCity
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Lack of simcard seems really strange even for apple considering many apple costumers are more affluent and used to travelling a lot and hence they NEED a simcard tray. Many countries yet don’t support esim for pay as you go plans or for tourists. This decision seems that was taken due to pressure from USA mobile phone networks that wanted their costumers to use roaming more when abroad hence generating more revenue. Less option for the consumer and better for big telecom companies. Just another normal day in America

RodolphosTechchannel
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iPhone 4 was so heavily leaked, Apple would completely redesign the phone if that happened today

eventualpine
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Great video mate. I’m from the UK, I bought an iPhone 4 Day 1 and nor myself or anybody I knew had this issue at the time. It was DEFINITELY over blown. I remember hearing about it and genuinely being confused as to what was going on lol. It was a small minority of users affected, I just happened to not come across any.

Leedscity
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I’ve got my bumper case still in the blister pack!
My 6 Plus was run over by 2 cars and an 18 wheeler truck, was fine apart from a few blown pixels.

steveb
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Yeah, CDMA was a thing in the US and later in the world as well, and it wasn't all that hard to switch to another CDMA or GSM provider, you just had to visit the provider store and get it sorted, just as much as with eSIM today. Most of the phones had SIM slot for obvious reasons, but changing number for CDMA device wasn't much of a difference than changing eSIM today, it was usually network configuration message but if you knew what you were doing, you could type that info yourself too. Most people didn't want to type anything as it was too much for average customer back then and things haven't changed much today. The only convinience of SIM as such (if phone wasn't network locked) that you hand't had to deal with config messages and usually, some online portal from which you'd request new network settings. Also, you don't have to worry if chip that holds network info is damaged as it is with CDMA/eSIM, as replacing the entire device can be very inconvinient and frustrating experience. eSIM is more convinient on smartwatches than it is on the phones, but it's good to have it both, just in case.

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I read somewhere that Apple did indeed develop a better coating for the antenna band to prevent Antennagate from happening again. They didn’t make a fuss out of it, just released improved models during the 4 cycle. Can’t remember the source for this.

rafaelclaycon
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Been binging your videos all week and loving the content. Subbed!

VanJR.
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I have the iPhone 13, picked it up in December 2023, I love it. Good screen, great battery life, decent sounding speakers and no extra unnecessary camera bumps/lenses.

frank-bmtz
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CDMA 8GB iPhone 4 was my first smartphone!

wchris
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My sister had the problem with the iPhone 6 bending and she never put it in her pocket. She put it in the purse. I remember we went to the Apple Store and they just looked at it and switched it out for a new one had no idea about bend gate when it happened until we YouTube it.

realkevintaylor
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Still remember the insane amount of 4.X.X updates there were to fix cellular related things. Had a CDMA iPhone 4 personally

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