2013-10-11

iPhone 5S not on the level

Spot the deliberate mistake?
Same table, not moved. Used to show level on my old iPhone 5.
I am not sure these new iPhone 5S's are on the level.
Chatting to their support now - had all sorts of reset settings, set true north, power off and on, etc.
Lets see what else they suggest.


Update: Nice grammar?

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6 comments:

  1. Brexit factsSaturday, 12 October 2013 at 09:45:00 BST

    You are not holding it right....

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  2. DTMonday, 14 October 2013 at 13:51:00 BST

    The grammar. It hurts.

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  3. KE55ARDMonday, 14 October 2013 at 14:27:00 BST

    Apparently I'm lucky, mine appears to only be about 1 degree out :S

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  4. jas88Monday, 14 October 2013 at 15:48:00 BST

    It's their new patented curved surface. Like an actual flat surface, but with rounded edges so things still fall off.

    I hope this is something they can fix with a firmware updated for the M7 chip which handles this. Previous iPhones used a totally different setup (the driver code ran on the main CPU, not a separate dedicated Cortex M3) - so, this will be largely new code, no doubt showing the occasional new bug to make life more interesting.

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  5. KE55ARDWednesday, 16 October 2013 at 11:08:00 BST

    Looks like Julia's is out by 1 degree too

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  6. Brexit factsFriday, 18 October 2013 at 09:52:00 BST

    For the explanation look here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/18/iphone_5_teardown_shows_faulty_leveling/

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