Darth Vader Calls Apple About His iPhone 4 Antenna [Video]
MG Siegler
Jul 23, 2010

Regardless of what you think about the whole iPhone 4 antenna debate, there’s no denying that it’s fueling a massive amount of creativity on the Internet. We’ve got the iPhone 4 antenna song (which Apple even played at its press conference), the cute “End Call” antenna covering stickers, the College Humor take on the press conference, and, of course, the Taiwanese animation for Antennagate with light sabers.

The Taiwanese video features Bill Gates (or some other Microsoft guy) as Darth Vader. Vader also plays a pivotal role in new video today by Russell Arch. No, it’s not as good as the Taiwanese one (nor the iPhone vs. EVO videos), but it’s still pretty funny. It starts off slow, but it gets good at the end.

The choice lines:

  • “Are you seriously defending the new phone by saying that it almost performs as well as the old phone? Is that what the plan is?”
  • “So everybody gets hit with 4 times the radiation just because these idiots can’t work together?”
  • “Ha ha, and get what, the EVO? I mean those poor saps are having light leaks and their screens peeling off after a couple of days.”
  • “And don’t even get me started on the Droid X. Uh, let’s see, you take the original phone, remove the physical keyboard, make it as big as a toaster, and still don’t add a front-facing camera? Yeah, that’s progress.”
  • “Look, just level with me: it’s AT&T isn’t it? If it is just cough or something.”

See also: The Best Of The iPhone 4 Spoofs

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  • oihoih

    “Regardless of what you think about the whole iPhone 4 antenna debate”

    there is no debate, you are delusional. apple is selling a defective product that only function with case that they are giving away. we all know this as factual. fanboys continue to be in denial, everyone else just laughs at iphone owners.

  • http://borasky-research.net M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

    And of course, there’s the “Hitler discovers that Darth Vader has a Droid Incredible” video ;-)

  • http://www.htmlist.com/ Chris Cardinal

    Can we try this, MG? Can we not write about the iPhone 4′s performance, antenna or otherwise for an entire week? Starting today? Go Friday to Friday without a single article on it. This should be easy. The madness has died down. You can still write about favorite apps. But let’s see you go one week without writing about sales of the iPhone, activations of iOS, activations of iOS as they compare to Android, that funny antenna video, that funny antenna sticker, that funny antenna song, that OTHER funny antenna video, or anything else directly related to the iPhone 4′s performance.

    Can you try that? Please? Just for a week. You’re killing us over here.

  • http://parislemon.com MG Siegler

    you’re going to HATE my next post :)

  • http://www.mgamenow.com cooltry

    iPhone 4, my pain point.

  • http://parislemon.com MG Siegler

    link?

  • http://www.josegaldamez.com Jose Galdamez

    Right. We laugh at people based on the phone they carry because we’re all still in the 5th grade and that’s how we roll.

    “Oh look! Bobby’s got an iPhone 4! Like, Oh-Em-Gee. El-Oh-El!”

  • D

    You want him to stop reporting on those topics?
    Easier for you to avoid his articles for a week, I think.
    Love my EVO!

  • http://www.webguide4u.com WebGuide4U

    already a lot of debate goes on iphone and its antenna problem still i’m going to buy iphone in first weel of august.
    i’m happpy with apple

  • http://reverselookphone.com/ trace phone number canada

    iphone users pays for the brand and not the quality of the product – that’s what I think really.

    shoppers need to be very careful about this.

    we should not overlook even a single detail in what we buy.

  • Randall Marshall

    “The fact is that ALL phones have problems when gripped…”

    Good stuff. Hey, remember when other companies made MP3 players? Some of them, you could just swap out the batteries without sending it to the pentagon? The Ipod is *the worst* product out there, but they marketed it until the competition is practically starved off the market.

    The Iphone is no different.

  • Dude

    So you have an iPhone 4 an antenna issues? Oh you don’t… Well my iPhone 4 along with my friends has shown no issues at all (I must be in that little 99.45% minority Steve mentioned)… What are you basing your bullshit comment on?

  • Dude

    Fortunately the iPhone 4 is the highest rated smartphone on the market according to several sources… Did you miss the part where only an amazingly tiny percentage have noticed antenna problems? Or that returns of the phone are some of the lowest in the entire industry?

  • Dude

    ‘the worst’ to WHO? I don’t care about replacing the battery… Certainly not if it means putting a shitty plastic door on it. I replace my iPod every 2 years or so, the battery is at practically full performance at that time. Get over yourself.

  • Mads Dørup

    I love all these antennagate posts. Seriously, please keep writing them.

    When I first heard about the issue I was quite frustrated, but 50 posts later, I’m starting to find it quite funny and I’m completely convinced it’s the right phone for me. I’m really looking forward to buying one when they release it it Denmark next week.

  • http://www.helixzone.net helix2301

    This is down right funny I love star wars spoofs.

  • http://www.pussaholicsanonymous.com Anonymous

    Lol, some of the best Star Wars spoofs since the Family Guy and Robot Chicken bits…

  • http://borasky-research.net M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

    I made that one up – but if someone has the code … ;-)

  • kenson

    In Russia, iPhone 4′s don’t have antennagate issue, instead, people got one. http://2su.de/3GY

  • http://FuckLoudandMakeNoise.com Wayne Lambright

    That was genius

  • Raj

    LMAO! Good laugh…..

  • Robert Park

    Dude, you guys seriously have to get rid of that auto-reload feature you seem to have now… so many times when I watch a video, the screen refreshes in the middle of it. :(

  • http://www.dlinked.com DLINKED.COM

    Apple has no antenna

    DLINKED.com

  • http://www.dlinked.com DLINKED.COM

    Antenna ??? Apple??
    http://tiny.cc/1y8lq

  • hiohio

    MG,

    can TC banhammer DLINKED.com spam?

  • Mike

    what a weak argument. congratulations, apple has you programmed to dish out hundreds of dollars every year or two for a slightly upgraded version of what you already have. I’ve had my Creative Player for 5 years without a glitch. How is the need to buy a new device that often a good thing?

  • Mike

    If I had a nickel for every iPhone user I have telling me they don’t have ANY of these problems just to see their phones fail over and over before my eyes, I could buy Apple 10 times over. Most Apple users I come across are horribly insecure losers who would never admit to a flaw in their little “status” device. You telling us that you are not seeing any of these problems is an outright lie.

  • kayvint

    You guys have got to make your embeded videos watchable on the iPhone!

  • Droid

    Well if u don’t own an iPhone 4, please don’t act like you know shit. I am not an apple fanboy. I do own an iPhone 4 And htc droid x. I love both phones. I can honestly say my iPhone has no antenna issue at all and I am not using any case.

  • Ipodww

    I have my iPod for 6 years now and it’s still run perfectly. What’s your point?

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