I’ll skip all the praises that Apple received for their new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 and jump right at some strange things that the two posses. I can not explain this sub-par behavior without invoking the rush-to-production argument.

The first has to do with double tapping the home button twice to how background apps while the phone is in a landscape mode:

Hmm, shouldn’t they had at least rotated the icons 90 degrees? This makes me dizzy.

Now, let’s use the new lock-orientation feature, again, while being in the landscape mode:

Ouch, it turns the screen to the portrait mode BEFORE locking the orientation. Now I have to do bed-typing on the small keyboard presented in the portrait mode.

Lets’ see if Apple catches this before the upcoming iOS 4.0.1 that is supposed to bring everybody’s reception bar indicator down “to reflect AT&T’s suggested formula”. I acutally like the bars as they are now – they are very granular in the lower signal strength spectrum, where the reception quality actually matters, and are simply 5 bars when the reception is in the good quality range.

As far as the antenna issue is concerned, no, changing how the bars are displayed is not going to fix it. And yes, I fixed it by having the case (actually a thin protective film) that covers the gap so I do not accidentally bridge it. And yes, iPhone 4 reception is slightly better on their on compared to the iPhone 3G.

PS Man, the screenshots are big. I guess the awesome “retina” thing has it’s side-effects too