Steve Jobs Defends iPhone Post by: CK 17 July, 2010 - 3:11 PM

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Apple chief Steve Jobs held a press conference in the wee small hours on Saturday 17 July Australian time to address the hoopla surrounding the new iPhone 4. At one point stopping to say “we love our users”.

Jobs passionately defended his phone and yet still offered up a software upgrade to fix the way the bars relate signal loss, a full refund if needed and free bumpers.

Yep, Apple are giving away free bumbers, a plastic ring that loops the outside of the phone, or a choice of other cases because they simply can’t make enough bumpers. A much nicer solution than the gaffa tape idea that has been popping up around the net.

Jobs opened his conference with this bizarre video from the youtube song-a-day man:

During his address Jobs showed footage of Blackberry, HTC and Samsung phones all experiencing signal loss degradation when held a certain way, to illustrate that the issue was not unique to the iPhone 4.

Media have been in a frenzy over reports of signal loss when gripping the phone in a certain way. Despite this Apple have sold three million units in three weeks. Only 1.7% of those have been returned, compared to the iPhone 3GS’ 6% return rate.

Steve Jobs mentioned that we can get our hands on the Aussie iPhone 4 on July 30, one of our team is super keen to get one straight away, we’ll let you know our thoughts when we get our grubby little hands on one. Stay tuned!

Will any of this affect your decision to buy an iPhone 4?

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