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ios 4.0.1: Seems to (partially) fix the irritating proximity sensor bug

(Update July 16: Nope. Better, but still messed up. See update below) So I just patched my iphone 4 with ios 4.0.1. While consumers, and specifically tech sites were going nuts about the reception, I just installed the bumper and it fixed the problem for me. That was pretty much a non issue with me post the bumper. The one issue that really bugged me was the buggy proximity sensor. Every time I put the phone to my ear, with a bit of movement, I would either mute the call or add another line. Most irritating. My initial tests seem to indicate that ios 4.0.1 fixes this nuisance. I certainly hope that is true as I continue to use it. I’ve been reading others say it does not fix it, but I tried 3-4 calls now and I did not experience that issue. But time will tell. I don’t really care if they increased the bar size, decreased the bar count and what not. What do you feel? Did 4.0.1 fix the proximity sensor bug? Update: July 16: No, 4.0.1 does not completely fix this. It seems to certainly be better, but I can’t say its completely fixed. I’ve made

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Facetime on Iphone 4: Vanilla unencrypted STUN and SIP

(July 13: sorry for the downtime, looks like my bandwidth limits were exceeded. Upgraded my hosting package – fixed) (note: Only the call part is Vanilla SIP. The procedure for registering a Facetime user into their servers etc. is all non-SIP, encrypted/ciphered.) (for my user review of the iphone4 and bumper read here) Well heck, good job Apple! I just tested facetime and did a quick check on its protocol. No hacking needed – just an on the wire black box inspection – its just plain SIP and STUN for firewall discovery. Apple plans to make this protocol public, and they seem to have done an excellent job. And thanks for showing the world that you don’t need complicated encryption and proprietary tunneling tricks for an excellent experience. You need a good codec set, a good media stack that can adaptively switch codecs and manage buffers  and a good ‘point-of-presence’ network for the most part. I am just going to restrict this post to an overview of the flow. Enjoy: click on each image for a larger size (if they are small) This is a facetime all flow – good, plain, SIP (they use MESSAGE for some proprietary data exchange

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IPhone 4 Review

(Updated Jun 30 with iphone 4 bumper strip review) I was one of the 600,000 people who managed to get in their iphone 4 orders on day one, before all the servers collapsed. So anyway, I got my iphone 4 yesterday (Fedex dropped it in at around 11:30 in the morning). Here is my brief review so far: (These are just my observations as a user. For a more indepth review, read Engadet’s iphone 4 review. )

© Arjun Roychowdhury. My personal opinions only.