Last week’s iPhone 4S release has been one of the smoothest launches Apple has had to date, well this might be about to change as some users are firing-up their new iPhone 4S’ only to the find their screen has an odd yellow tint. It’s already being dubbed ‘Yellow-Gate’.
We’ve done a little bit of digging and there is indeed a discussion thread ‘iPhone 4S Screen Tint’ on the Apple forums, which has 39 replies and was started by a user called Snowglider who has noticed a tint to his screen.
It’s not the first time iPhone’s have suffered from the problems where colours looked washed out and uneven, we’ve certainly seen examples of this with the 3G and 3GS before.
While this does appear, on the face of it, to be a minor issue, it does seem to be gaining some traction with others noticing the yellow hue, many are hoping that the screens just need to bed in and after a week or so it will be fine.
But, Joshua Topolsky wrote in his review for This Is My Next: “One thing I did note, however, was how much less contrast-heavy the screen looks in comparison to the previous model. The iPhone 4S has a noticeably different color tone, and blacks seem far less dark.”
CNet has also waded into the investigation, suggesting that the issue might come down to the cases, because they might actually be tricking the phone into thinking it was in a dark enviroment.
As far as problems go it’s not a major one, yet, but what makes it even more interesting is all the complaints seem to be coming from users who have the black version, and not the white version.
For those of you who are familiar with Apple-history, the last iPhone was plagued with an issue that meant users were getting an unusually high amount of dropped calls, it lead to many dubbing the fiasco ‘Antenna-Gate’.
What made it worse was Apple resistance to even acknowledge the problem and it even went as far as Steve Jobs emailing one user who complained and suggesting he should “hold it differently”.
Eventually Apple came up with a rather bizarre story that the formula used to calculate how many signal bars should be shown were wrong, and in turn this meant users were seeing and inaccurate amount of signal bars and this, apparently, caused the issue – not the design of the antenna, which has since been changed in the iPhone 4S
Still, this could be the biggest knock against the iPhone 4S so far. No one from Apple could be reached for comment at the time of writing.
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