Serious Design Flaw in iPhone 3G SMS UI!

Problem: In the SMS screen, the "Send" button is just right on top of the keyboard's U, I, O , P keys. Whenever I try to tap these keys, I'll hit the "Send" button accidentally. And then there's no way to cancel the transmission. Many of my friends seem to have similar issue.
Request:
o I hope the Apple team can place the "Send" button away from the keyboard.
o Add the ability to cancel SMS transmission if it's in progress.
On some side issues, I also noticed the iPhone lacks the following basic phone features:
o Deleting multiple/all contacts.
o Save contacts to SIM card.
o Add security code to the phone like one of those in Nokia. That means if a different SIM card is used, the phone will prompt for security code.
If these problems can be solved, then I'm pretty such Apple makes a very good product.

Hello there....welcome to the world of iPhone - where some of us have been here since the launch of the first iPhone. Obviously you have just had your iPhone for a few days. You will get over the typing issues. Just practice. You will stop hitting the send button as soon as you get used to typing.
As for the contact issues you have - You delete groups of contacts - or all - in whatever software you use on your computer to organize your contacts. Outlook? You don't need to save your contacts to a sim card as you have them on your BIG SIMCARD you are using right now....your computer.
If someone steals your phone and tries to change the sim card, Apple/AT&T have the ability to lock the phone down so it can't be used. I've had it done when my first phone was stolen.
There ya go. Welcome to the board.
Please choose to get to know your phone better before proclaiming it less than perfect. THANKS!

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Why can't I sync more than one computer? This is a serious design flaw.

I have a macbook and so does my wife. So, who gets to sync and who ends up in the streaming ghetto? This is a pretty crappy design choice. We should both be able to sync to a combined library on the appletv so that we don't have to fight over who gets a less convenient experience on the appletv.
You can call it the "marriage saver".

You just need to get two Apple TV's and perhaps an HDMI switch so you can easily go back and forth between the two without having to buy another TV. Instead of getting a switch one person could use HDMI and the other could use component output but that might cause some problems as well. If you're only going to use Synching then AppleTV looks just like an iPod and you both need one of your own. It really isn't as ridiculous as it sounds since it's $50 cheaper than the 80GB video iPod.
Maybe you should both agree to stream. It works really well. Perhaps set up a common iTunes to synch from. Good luck .. I've got similar issues with both kids and wife! So I've an AppleTv in the Den for the kids (synched with Kids stuff) and in the Family room we have another AppleTV synched with more grown up stuff. To go back and forth we just stream to the other library.

Serious design flaw in iWeb needs fixing fast

I have been designing websites with various types of software in the past. Always a wysiwyg environment has been amongst my favourites as it shows exactly what you are doing, how it looks and what it's going to be like for the viewer.
Now iWeb does a fairjob at that but it has one MAJOR issue and that's publishing.
I have tried publishing to MobileMe, I tried local and upping the contents via a different FTP program and I have tried uploading to FTP from within iWeb.
The issue that a lot of people are reporting and Apple is ( regretabbly ) not doing anything about is the problem with the settings on the website ( left panel of iWeb)
Normally you would want to save everything of a certain website under a site. iWeb does that, fine.
Yet when you publish your site to MobileMe or any other FTP location, it ALWAYS adds the friggin' SITENAME to the path.
Why can't I get rid of that nonsense ? I want my site looking like http://www.mysite.ext/index.html
NOT like http://www.mysite.ext/<sitename>/index.html
So, to me, it looks like Apple is adding a variable to the publishing path which should NOT be there.
Please Apple, fix this or tell us in which plist this stupid setting is set so we may be able to change that. It's ridiculous this way.

@Ethmoid
Yes I have read your reply and it's similar to many replies in the forum.
Users always get put off with the same nonsense band-aid sollution like " publish locally then upload via other ftp program"
Although I will grant you this works, what use is the whole FTP function in the software if you cannot use it as it is supposed to work ?
Some other things I would like to mention in regards to this bug ( yes it is still a bug in my book )
- Apple does not mention the a-typical behavior anywhere in the documentation
- Apple does not mention the Auto-Adding of the Website name in the Knowledge Base
- Hundreds of people have complained about this odd behavior of the program
What really ticked me off today was the following:
I have tried to contact Apple in various ways about this bug.
Sent in feedback various times, tried this forum ( no luck thusfar ) and even started a Fast Lane Incident. The result of that was that I was given the option that I would have to pay 49 Euro's before apple would even listen to the problem. I tried to tell them that it's a bug in their software which I already had paid for.
In The Netherlands it's set by law that any product ( no matter what ) which does not perform as expected has to be solved by the company that made the product. ( there is more to that but i'll leave it as is for now )
So, I am a paying customer who paid for his software which has a bug. I ask for a sollution and all I get is " You have to pay 49 Euro's per incident" . *** ???
Now you can call me a ranter as many times as you want but no matter how you put it, the behavior in iWeb is odd in relation to any other ftp enabled web publishing client. Pick any 100 different softwares for web publishing with ftp feature and i'll bet you 100 US $ that at least 99 of them upload in the folder you set in the program and they will not add any folders by themselves the way iWeb does.
This combined with the many, many similar posts about this oddity, you cannot keep it up to tell all these users they rant and just need to buy another piece of software to do just that what iWeb should be able to do.
As for the fix.
If people are really " happy" with this behavior of auto-adding a sitename, then at least let Apple give us a choice to either switch this behavior ON or OFF. It should be easier to do and fix then any of the other bugs they recently fixed.
I really hope you see it as it is, a faulty product...

Serious design Flaw on Zen Micro -now headphone ja

Ok...now im new in the old headphone jack problem..im sending it for replacement. Sad....i hope the new one breaks before the warranty ends, so i can at least enjoy the Zen for one year...then ill switch to Ipod.
This little thing sounds great, but creative must get new engineers....this flaw happens in almost every zen!....

I moved this to it's own thread as it wasn't related to the one you posted in (at all).
Cat

Regular expressions: serious design flaw?

I wondered why sometimes, the replaceAll() method works in my code and sometimes it throws a java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException. I wrote a little test case to show the problem
private void regularExpressionTest() {
        String escapers = "\\([{^$|)?*+."; //characters to escape to avoid PatternSyntaxException
        String text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
        System.out.println("Original: "+text);
        String regExp = "o";
        String word = "HELLO";
        String result = text.replaceAll(regExp, word);
        System.out.println("Replace all '"+regExp+"' with "+word+": "+result);
        text = "The quick brown {animal} jumps over the lazy dog.";
        System.out.println("Original: "+text);
        regExp = "{animal}";
//        regExp = escapeChars(regExp, escapers); //escape possible regular expression characters
        word = "catterpillar";
        result = text.replaceAll(regExp, word);
        System.out.println("Replace all '"+regExp+"' with "+word+": "+result);
}//regularExpressionTest()The output is:
Original: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Replace all 'o' with HELLO: The quick brHELLOwn fHELLOx jumps HELLOver the lazy dHELLOg.
Original: The quick brown {animal} jumps over the lazy dog.
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition
{animal}
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1528)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.closure(Pattern.java:2545)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1656)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1545)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1279)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1035)
     at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:779)
     at java.lang.String.replaceAll(String.java:1663)
     at de.icomps.prototypes.Test.regularExpressionTest(Test.java:57)
     at de.icomps.prototypes.Test.main(Test.java:34)
Exception in thread "main" As the first replacement works as espected, the second throws an Exception. Possible because '{' is a special character for the regular expression API. In case I know the regular expression, i could escape these special characters. But in my generic server app, the strings are all parameters, so the only way for replaceAll() to work is, to escape all possible special characters in the regular expression.
1. Is there a complete list of all special characters for regular expressions that need to be escaped?
2. Is there a similar replaceAll() method without regular expressions? So that all occurences of a substring can be replaced by another string? (So far, I wrote my own method but this is of course more time consuming for massive string operations.)

1. The complete list of specially-recognized characters are listed in the Java 1.4.* API. (Of course, new ones may eventually be added as the regex package matures).
2. It is time consuming to program in general. You should have written your own utility method that goes through a String using indexOf and building up the String in a StringBuffer, and apparently you did. Now you have the utility method...you no longer need to write that method again.
3. Or you could have written some kind of method that automatically escapes the specially-recognized characters...

Identified a design flaw in the iPhone

i was on the iPhone speakerphone with my parents and suddenly this mentally troubled girl i know sends me a message consisting of a single 3 letter expletive. i get the popup saying reply/cancel i press cancel.
she sends it again - i cancel it again. and again and again on like 4th time i accidentally end the call with my parents.
so i am trying to call them back but at this point she starts repeating the word every second or so so i am constantly getting the popup reply/cancel so i keep pressing cancel but before the screen cancels the new popup is there and the transparent glass popup takes the entire screen so i can't access the phone buttons to call my parents back.
now my parents are calling me and i am trying to pick up the phone but the crazy girl is still firing away at about 40 messages per minute.
long story short i was unable to either pick up on my parents or call them back until she stopped about 2 minutes later.
it was VERY frustrating ! ! !
this is unacceptable. i cannot lose control of my cell phone the second somebody starts texting me !
the interface must be redesigned such that the reply/cancel popup doesn't block the rest of the screen. instead it should appear as a bar on top or bottom of the screen and the rest of the screen should compress a bit so u can still go about your business while the crazy people are having a breakdown.
what if i was in a car using iphone as a GPS ? i might have gotten killed.
serious serious flaw !

Read between the lines, people. You're missing the point: the Text Message Popup Window interferes with normal operation of an application that is in use. IE: GPS mapping software....which is probably most useful while driving, no? The OP's point was that if he was trying to use some kind of GPS MAPPING while driving, the text message popups will get in the way of that use. The app still works, yes, but it's more, unnecessary buttons to push...
I agree that at times the Text Popup can be problematic and a less intrusive alert window should be considered. I wouldn't call it a serious design flaw, though. It's just Apple not fully considering usability under certain conditions.

I am a new iphone 4 user... I have insurance what does the Manufacturer Cover in damages or design flaws ?

I recently was talked into upgrading to an iphone 4.....I Love Apple and all of their products and accessories!!! My son & I have become computer genius
within 5 minutes, there is actually an app for everything....Except a design flaw or water/steam damage? I was hoping to resolve this unfortunate experience!!!
I had my iphone 4 in the outlet in the hallway near my bathroom.. I love the 80's I Heart Radio App...Apparently, the phone has water damage and needs to be looked at or replaced. I have been to 3 AT & T Stores before I received excellent customer service by speaking to the store manager...I had a different design flaw with Moto Atrix was still within the Manufacture waranty. They said it was a desin flaw with the keyboard...not able to fix and would have to pay the deductable.. That is not good enough!!! I buy everything i this i that!!! I can't live without my iphone I have money with Starbucks and also linked to Shell Rewards
and Speedway... Not to mention all my personal numbers, emails, facebook friends.....The phone was not dropped in water and was not in the same room as water but being 10 to 20 feet away something with the steam set off the water display for water damage??? I don't know why this is? When I first started on my quest with AT&T I thought I would have a grace period or design flaw? Please help!! I am unable to conduct daily day to day things without my iphone I was advised if they cracked my SIM card it's broken forever???

If the little built-in water detector on the iphone shows positive, ie water damage, then Apple will not do anything for you under warranty. The best thing that they will offer you is a swap to an identical (new phone) at a price around £150 in UK or the equivalent in your own country. If you are backing up to iCloud (or your computer), the new replacement unit will be able to load up all your old information etc. everything apart from synced data like music which you will need to re-upload.
You could argue that the water damage sensor on the iPhone is too sensitive etc. but Apple don't respond too well to this although you will be in a better position (and will be listened to more sympathetically) if you have bought AppleCare for your iPhone.
I know that this is annoying but I hope that you manage to get your problem resolved soon.

I am U.S. iPhone 4S user traveling in China. Data speed is too slow to be usable. Verizon says that it because iPhone 4S connects to strongest signal even if slowest. Any work arounds for this design flaw?

I am U.S. iPhone 4S owner traveling in China. Data speed is too slow to be usable. Verizon says that is because iPhone 4S connects to strongest signal, even if slowest (virtually non-existent) data network. Does anyone know how to work around this design flaw?

I spent 2 months in china with my old iphone 3gs. Both China Unicomm and China Mobile were accessible through my US phone. (for you other users, yes my phone bill was sky high, but it's a small price to pay when you get instant access to your wife while you are gone... and to be able to use the google translate app). I had a GSM phone (obviously) and had the ability to choose what carrier I wanted my phone to connect to (the same thing was available when I was in italy as well).
it was under
general-> network> then there was a new field (that does not normally show up when in the US) that listed the available networks to connect to. my phone always attempted china unicomm first, and switched to china mobile only when unicomm was unavailible.
but if wjosten is correct (and i imagine he is), cdma phones may not be able to choose what network to connect to.

Design Flaw in Twin Frozr fans

So, I'm finally creating a thread about this.
There's been reports over the last few years about fans making rattling noises, grinding noises, high pitched whines, whether on cold boot, idle, high RPM, or constantly, and quite frankly I'm tired of MSI ignoring the issue.
There is a design flaw with the Twin Frozr fans.
MSI needs to publicly acknowledge this.
Currently, the only way to get a replacement fan is to send your ENTIRE card in for repair. Other more reputable companies will send you out an entirely new fansink attachment at no cost. As one poster said it; "That would be like sending my car to Nissan every time I blow a tire"
My personal experience with Twin Frozr started with Twin Frozr 2 on my GTX 460 Hawks. The Talon Attack edition started to make a bad grinding noise on cold boot or if it actually got cold enough during idle operation. When the card warmed up, the noise stopped. Speeding up the fan to 100% sometimes also caused it to get rid of the noise, but that was only temporary unless the card stayed warm.
My non-hawk exhibited rattling as well, but to a lesser extent. No grinding noise on cold boot, just a low rattling.
My next card was a GTX 670 PE with Twin Frozr 4. Surely they fixed the issue by now right? Wrong! Within 30 days I started having fan issues. This fan doesn't rattle, but there is a high pitched whine when the fan is in operation. The faster the RPM, the louder the whine. Most people don't even know they have this issue because of the subtle tone of the whine and it being muffled by the fan's air sound at higher RPMs.
That's 3 separate graphics cards all exhibiting an issue with their fans.
There's one thing in common with these issues; it's only caused by the fan closest to the I/O. This boggles my mind. Surely if there was a problem with the fan design itself it would affect both fans, right? I just don't understand it. This leads me to believe it's a design flaw with the Twin Frozr design.
Some people seem to have an issue with the other fan, but it appears to be rare and not the same type of problem the majority of people are reporting.
Seeing as they want you to lose your card (and $10+ to ship it) for weeks at a time to 'fix' an issue which will no doubt happen again, something needs to be done about this. Their 'warranty' policy for this issue is completely unacceptable, as is the fact that the fans start acting up within a month of ownership.
If you want to see more threads, just do a search. Here is some of them:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=151578.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=157567.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=156284.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=161914.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=153463.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=154030.0
Googling brings more results. I've posted about it in this thread, and others have mentioned it as well: http://www.overclock.net/t/1265574/msi-gtx-670-power-edition-twin-frozr-4-cooler/0_30

Quote from: Noway77 on 28-May-14, 05:39:49
I don't think we have a MSI office in Portugal, most brands don't.
Some stores are not reliable they buy from EU retailers some even from Asia retailers and usually they don't give proper support. In Lisbon you have stores like Globaldata, Nanochip, Chiptek and AquaPC they are in business for years, have good customer support and have also good prices.
I'm probably not going to buy any MSI product from now on , for obvious reasons.
Trying to contact a support shoudn't be this hard from a client , at this point I assume anyone that's doesn't want to lose time will just give up.
As a consumer I was forced to RUN and TRY to find msi support , MSI support mail doesn't event exist , since I made this thread it still hasn't been changed.
I really liked MSI ( I still have my 875P MSI neo here with my p4 and the NX6800 working ) it's like saying goodbye to an old friend that has been by my side since P4 times.
I'll buy msi products in US , or in another country maybe , but never MORE in portugal.
This is not cause of the shops , I recommend everyone to buy in the shops listed !!
In fact most of the portuguese shops tried to help me find msi support ( even though they weren't the stored that sold me the card ).
I really don't want ppl to get this mixed up, the problem here is MSI not acknowledging a problem that is simple to fix, having a non-existant email on their webpage as support for over 4 months and the fact that as a consumer I was forced to jump trough loops to actually contact MSI itself !
Every portuguese shop I contacted was super nice and really helpful pointing me to the new msi email
And actually the fix ( hot needle fix forum post link ) came from a shop reply.
US support was always super nice and helpful !
I was forced to fix my fan with the help of users.
If right now my MSI gpu is working is thanks to guru3d and hardwareoc and simillar forums ( thanks to everyone that posted Twin Frozn fixes , this may not mean much , but really .. thanks for helping me out ! )
MSI didn't help or even try to help me , I had to go out of my way to get help , and I never did.
I know some of those stores , they have great prices , but if I buy anything in portugal I'll buy other brands for obvious reasons. ( it was actually one of those shops that helped me pinpoint the "real" msi email )
I am a customer , I should be treated as such , I was joked and pushed around emails , found emails that don't even exist , I was ignored and left looking at a card going dead.
Maybe for some of you it's easy , you just buy another one .... and maybe that's the custommer MSI wants. But that's not me.
Pointing me to places to buy MORE is almost insulting at this point. I wont buy more ... I would be stupid of I did.
I just hope some other person that has MSI and is having this problem with Twin Frozn fans ( that msi refuses to acknowledge as THEIR problem !! ) can fix them themselves or take some info from my posts and others to at least understand what is happening.
From my pov , the fan eventually has some sort of lubrication problem , and due to that it starts to wobble , after that the coils heat up to a point it wobbles even more.
Due to the high temps the fan either "looses" enough to dump all the lubing out.
At some point the fan will heat up so much the plastic IS REALLY hot to the touch and fells that it can be actually moldable ( so I assume this is really bad )
This leads to the start-stop problem , the fan tries to kick itself on , but just makes things worse.
This leads to a fan that fails in 2-3 years.
MSI should either had a way to put oil in the fan OR just start to be ready to replace them.
The fact that IS an ebay market for Twin Frzn fans is just flabbergasting .
I wish I had a better view on this , but seriously looking at this thread, and seeing all the steps I have done , to find there are others like me that have a failing fan and that the ones that aren't ignored like me have to RMA a card for a simple fan doesn't give me any sort of confidence in this brand.
MSI has one of the best gpu coolers , honestly it's so god that after all this mess I stand as a testimony for it being one of the BEST gpu coolers around ! All my MSI products so far have been great ... but this experience was just ... weird ..
I wish MSI would contact the ppl that are in my position and help them , it's just a fan , it's an easy fix and it's easy to replace.
There are lots of ppl right now with fans starting to fail , just take their card , replace the fan and send them back , and MSI will have happy customers , HAPPY cause the brand CARED !
I'm only 1 client , MSI hardly "fells" me leaving ... I really like MSI ... so I wish this won't ever happen again to no one !
I have been ignored in mailing for TDR problems , after that about the 12h+ card artifacting being fixed with cold boot ( I assume this was an nvidia problem )
After using certain drivers that didn't TDR my card ( I have enough PSU for it so ... it's not the PSU ) and having been 2 years finding my own "solutions" to problems ... being ignored and just struggling to get help from MSI for a stupid FAN a cheap part and being hard just to contact them to get no answer .... and getting help from other users while MSI ignores me ? ... I'm thinking on leaving the brand ...
The fans are now working 100% , I'll post info when and if they fail ( if I see my "fix" stopped working ) .
It has now been a long time since 2011 and my first reports , and its been almost 6 months since I contacted msi about the portuguese email listed not existing.
The email is still there , that non-existent email is STILL listen in MSI website RIGHT NOW after me being emailing them about it for 4+ months ,as a customer, I can only assume they either ignore people , or they have a terrible communications internally .
Again after all this mess , I would be kinda stupid to support or try to buy another product from this brand , MSI support was always great and was the main reason I bought msi products, all this posts are from a person that was truly SHOCKED in everything that is happening and the feeling that no one cared.

Design flaw in Macbook Pro late 2013?

Hi,
Looks like Macbook Pro late 2013 has a weakness, due to a design flaw. Let me explain:
My Macbook Pro late 2013 (13inch, Model: A1502) developed a dent (see attachment) and an Apple Store (Genius Bar) technician told me that this is a result of "excessive pressure" on the bottom case. He also mentioned that because the case is made of soft aluminium and it is only supported around the border (about where the screws are located), any "excessive" pressure in the middle may result into the aluminum case being damaged by the internal components; in this case the damage appears to have been caused by an internal bracket.
There is no sign of the bottom case being pushed inwards, there hasn't been any accident and I haven't stepped, or sat on, or otherwise mistreated my laptop, so I very surprised! Most of the time, it's sitting flat on a desk and only carried insider a padded pouch, inside a laptop-grade (padded) backpack! As you'll notice in the photo (and I can provide more photos, if needed), there is absolutely no other sign of damage, the curves look perfect, and the back plate is flat.
This is just a cosmetic damage and replacing the bottom case is the obvious solution but I still need to better understand the circumstances; I need to understand what went wrong and, if possible, how to prevent this from happening in the future .
I visited iFix it web site and carefully looked at the internals of the laptop, here:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Tea rdown/18695
It looks like the bottom base is only supported around its border. The middle of the bottom case has no backing to support it. While Apple could have designed a support structure around the battery cells and over the motherboard (logic board) and the back case, there is no support structure at all. Hence, pressing on the back of the laptop uniformly (e.g. while in a loaded backpack) will probably result to the back case being pushed inwards and, while aluminium does have some degree of elasticity, it can get damaged when hitting on a sharp object, such as an internal bracket. Hence, I guess the Apple technician is right, this is what probably happened to my laptop and I think this may have happened only in my backpack. But, how “excessive” can the pressure be on a Macbook Pro inside a high-quality, padded backpack?
If there are other MBPr users who have experienced this problem under normal everyday use, i.e. not due to an accident, could you please let me know?
I'd be grateful if Apple:
* Looked into this and provided a workaround, e.g. a more durable bottom case.
* Considered replacing our damaged cases for free.
* Published some numbers, to inform prospective customers about the durability of the laptop's case, e.g. in N/cm^2
* Took our experience into consideration when designing their new laptops.
Kind regards.

" I need to understand what went wrong and, if possible, how to prevent this from happening in the future"
So what's underneath the area w/ the "blister"?
"It looks like the bottom base is only supported around its border. The middle of the bottom case has no backing to support it."
That's pretty much been the case w/ every MBP I've ever had apart. Nothing past 2012 however.
" While Apple could have designed a support structure around the battery cells and over the motherboard (logic board) and the back case, there is no support structure at all"
In earlier versions of the MBP there is a "separator" between two areas of the upper case but it doesn't supply any support to the bottom case.
So here's my take on this; Apple has made these MBPs thinner and thinner. In the MBPs I've taken apart 2008 - 2012. In the 2010 I have here the bottom case is very thick and judging by tapping on it is definitely tempered (or heat hardened or stress hardened). I don't have the proper caliper but the edge reads .044 Inch.
There have been other issues on these communities that relate to the thinness of the top or the bottom cases in these newer machines.
Never seen a newer machine but my feeling is judging by the issues seen around here is that the materials are much thinner and probably not as hardened or tempered.
" how “excessive” can the pressure be on a Macbook Pro inside a high-quality, padded backpack?"
To help prevent this from happening again and if this were my MBP I would use/make a hardened case just for the laptop. Say two sheets of 1/4" hardboard w/ a 1/4" separator of high density foam. Wait I'm describing a high quality laptop case.
As Ogelthorpe says, backpacks are not the most delicate way of transporting a laptop. I've seen damage worse than this to laptops, iPads, iPhones, Kindles etc. Especially at the school where I was the main tech. I would say: "What happened to this?" and the kid would say: "I dunno it was just in my backpack".
I've watched backpacks fall from shelves, get stuck in lockers and get smashed into each other in the hallway.
I'm sure you're much more delicate w/ your MBP but as the saying goes ".... happenes!"

IPad line-out design flaw - really!!!

I just bought a cable that uses the line out of the ipad to use with my car stereo (Kensington 2-in-1 Charger and Audio Cable for iPhone/iPod)
I first tested the cable by plugging it into some external computer speaker ... hissssss. Then into my nice NAD stereo amp .... hisssss and finally in the car ....... hissssssssssssssss.
I then investigated the hissssssssing problem further and IT APPEARS TO BE A DESIGN FLAW WITH IPADS ! I ordered another cable from Amazon and got the same hiss. I even went to the Apple store and myself and a Genius even tried another iPad with this cable and still got a hiss. To top it off WE USED THE OFFICIAL IPAD DOCK with the line out (using another cable with mini plugs) and still got a hiss.
So peeps, it appears that there is a major problem with the line out on the ipad. Perhaps these cables are at fault but how can you explain using a standard line out cable with mini plugs with the official Apple dock and still getting the same hiss. It's not a very loud hiss but definitely noticeable and renders the ipad line-out useless for anyone who wants to use this device to get better sound quality than the standard headphone out jack on home and car stereo units.

Michael Morgan1 wrote:
I plug an audio cable between the iPad the the home theater inputs and it sounds fine. And do the same to the powered speakers in the bedroom, and it sounds fine. Or connect a different cable from the iPad to the car radio's AUX to play audiobooks on the road, which sound great. And, of course, headphones sound fine too.
I use my iPod the same way and I expect to use the iPad that way also.
However, about a year ago I drove a rental car that had a USB connection to the sound system. According to the car user manual, that allowed the sound system to pick up sound from the iPod but also allowed the sound system to control the iPod via user inputs. Unfortunately, it required that the iPod have MS formatting and mine has Apple formatting so I never had a chance to play with it.
Having said all that, I suspect (but can't prove) that the OP's problem is that, with ONLY the sound out function being accessed, the noise is reasonable. The cable includes other wires that are unterminated in this configuration. Unterminated wires are a good antenna. The antenna is picking up random noise (hiss) and transferring it to the audio.

E90: physical design flaws (but good features)

I come from owning and using the 9500 Communicator and I recently 'upgraded' to the E90. I don't know how I managed to get one, what with all the 'production' issues of this model and the lack of stock, but I have had the 'low baseline' E90 for a few days now. I would like to make some comments and see if anyone else agrees/disagrees (and if Nokia is listening...)
The Major Design Flaws are:
1. Silvery, shiny bits that get scratched and worn.
Why? The Communicator is a niche market that is going to only appeal to previous Communicator owners or techs who need computing power in a PDA. So why make it with shiny bits when we are all boring geeks? Within a couple of days I have scratches everywhere and reports of the inner cursor pad being badly worn... I've had the 9500 for over 2 years and it look pretty new. A colleague has the 9300 for the same amount of time and it looks pretty dog-eared!
2. Camera lens is in primary place for a finger to smudge it.
Why put it there or why put the inner cursor pad there when anyone using the cursor will have their finger wrapped around and touch the lens?
3. What with all the problems of the keys scratching the inner screen why reduce the baseline?
With the baseline reduced the two inner pads in the corner do nothing as they do not touch the (reduced) profile - and hence the screen scratch problem (?)
4. Minor manufacturing problems?
Uneven feet (it rocks!) and microphone/speak buzz problems?
The good points are the new features (although not some changes especially when they were so perfect and useful in the 9500!)
1. Big outer screen.
2. Good resolution of screens.
3. Quad band. 3G, etc.
4. GPS. Maps, etc.
5. Better media facilties and support.
6. Better browsing and WLAN support.
7. Better camera.
8. Good hinge.
Last thing, how is Nokia going to compete with Apple (iPhone in particular) if Nokia 'PC' suite is not available for the Macs?Message Edited by son_t on 31-Aug-200709:08 PM
Message Edited by son_t on 31-Aug-200709:12 PM

01-Sep-200705:56 PM
vmoisa wrote:
01-Sep-200711:26 AM
wolf666 wrote:
Really I respect you but I really cannot stand such low technical cultured objections.
Well, I am not an MD in Mechanical Engineering, but I am looking at the facts. 9300i was much lighter than E90 and so is the SE p990i. If it is not a material problem, maybe it is a design problem. Maybe they put too much dead weight in. As an example, I think that, if Nokia used the same keyboard as on 9330i, the keyboard would have been much better and the phone a little lighter.
I did not want to be offensive..
I argue on solidity of 9300, personally I had 9300 and 9300i..
The first also had a crack starting from an inner edge. The plastic used was not so good for me. The external cover soon became worn at the corner...but was lighter.
The keyboard of 9300 was good..really good, but E90 is better: you can also retro illuminate it!
Dead weight??? You have to know the weight optimization is one of the thing a designer perform. This process take not so much time, using Finite Element Analysis Software. It is a iterative process. It seems you miss the E90 has some metallic parts (it is a plus) and the plastic and the finishing is at highest level.
Considering what is inside the E90 I found the overall dimension and weight are a great success!
Let's see reliability of the finish, let's see reliability of the keyboard..time will give us the answers.
I only agree about some minor design faults like the pad touching the inner screen.

What design flaws have u noticed? (Ergonomics/Human Factors discussion)

Hello everyone,
I received my iPhone 3G S early in the AM on Friday via UPS. Apple has once again produced a quality product. However, I have noticed a few design flaws. This thread is open to any type of ergonomics (aka human factors) discussion. New input is encouraged ☺ Anyway, here are a few things I have come across.
Voice Control: I have had poor experiences so far with this feature. The ratio of accurate to inaccurate responses…is not good. It is in favor of being inaccurate. Granted, any voice command will have its inaccuracies, this has just been frustrating. It is more time consuming to get Voice Control to respond correctly than selecting the item yourself. Hmm…wasn’t that partially the point of having this feature?
iPhone video –to→ PC/Mac: As many know, video taken with the iPhone is saved in Camera Roll. After taking video & some photos from an evening, I connect my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I import my photos & video into iPhoto, into a specific album. In iTunes, I select to sync my iPhone with the photo album. After I synced, I looked at my iPhone album I had just created & added. Sadly, I find that my video did not sync as well. ☹ Instead, I had to import the video into iTunes. So, the video is in my iPod on my iPhone, and not in my photo album that shares the events of the same evening ☹

LalaBear,
I had a lot of problems with voice control for the iPod function. It always said "no match found": for artist, album, or playlist. So i reset the phone. (Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.) Now it really works well.
To import your videos, start iPhoto on your Mac.

I can't seem to get my iPod touch (4th Gen) to play photo slideshows or videos through my TV. Is this a design flaw? Or is it me? My old iPod used to do it no problem, but now I can't even find any video out options in the settings.

I can't seem to get my iPod touch (4th Gen) to play photo slideshows or videos through my TV. Is this a design flaw? Or is it me? My old iPod used to do it no problem, but now I can't even find any video out options in the settings.

This cable And Im using a cable that has a headphone jack on one end and RCA cables on the other. does not work for iPod touches. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1454

Who needs apple to make the bezels for the macbook pro? Lets get together and tell apple they must! It is a design flaw.

I love my pro. I paid 2700. for it 4 years ago. I did that because I know they are meant to last. I could have purchased a regular laptop but they don't last. Until recently I was ecstatic with it. Then one day I opened it up and my screen seemed really floppy. I didn't pay much attention. Then I noticed there were two cracks on the bezel toward the bottom of the screen. It is where the stress point lies from opening and closing. A very important location. I have read up on this, it is definitely a design flaw. I know the bezels are only work 10-15 dollars if produced. But because of the lack of availability of them they sell for 80 and up. I went to an Apple store with my friend. She purchased an IPAD 3 months ago, it fell out of her car, and the screen broke. Strangely enough, they replaced her IPAD when clearly it was customer fault, although she maintained it was a weak point. Me? The genius looked at mine and said I would need a new screen and it would be 700. Then another solution for 300. I asked why they couldn't just order a bezel. He said they don't make them. Apple does not make computer parts for their own computer? Unfortunately they gave me the rude runaround (Sherman Oaks,Ca manager Gabe Nava) and treated me like I was being unreasonable when I pointed out it was a design flaw with Apple!. Now i have a computer that could last a good 2-3 more years, but with this flaw the life will be shortened. Apple is this how u treat the customers that purchase you most expensive product versus the one that purchases the low/med price product? Let me know pro owners.....lets demand apple make these bezels. They should be replaced for free, but if it were available for 15. and then 50 labor...that I can live with. The best I could get outta Gabe was 150.00 and they keep my computer for a week! I live 120 miles away from the nearest store. I know your out there folks....lets make Apple make this right.

There are online Mac reaper shops that will fix your bezel, it's nothing really.
Here's one
http://www.myservice.com/
Here's another
http://www.techrestore.com/
(no comp)

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