Apple adds Nokia N97 mini video to death-grip series
Apple has added the Nokia N97 mini to their (growing?) list of smartphones that suffer from the now-infamous “antennagate” death-grip. Here we see the N97 dropping from 7 to 3 bars.
Of course, iPhone 4 doesn’t suffer from death-grip but death-touch, a single point of attenuation on the bottom left side. Apple made a trade-off for [...]
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Apple shows off $100 million antenna design and test labs
Following their iPhone 4 press conference last Friday, Apple showed for the first time their massive $100 million dollar antenna design and test labs both on the web at apple.com, and to select members of the media. The images look like something out of science fiction, of Charles Xavier’s Cerebro and the StarGate recreated in [...]
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How Apple moved the conversation from iPhone 4 death-touch to industry-wide death-grip
One of the greatest tricks Apple pulled off at the iPhone 4 press conference was changing the dialog from death-touch — a single point of antenna trouble on iPhone 4 — to death-grip — a device-wide point of antenna trouble faced by the entire industry.
Apple for their part did cop to making iPhone 4’s point [...]
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Samsung responds to Apple over antennagate
And the quadfecta is now complete, with Samsung responding to Apple over the iPhone 4 press conference’s demonstration of the death-grip causing signal loss on an Omnia II.
“The antenna is located at the bottom of the Omnia 2 phone, while iPhone’s antenna is on the lower left side of the device. Our design [...]
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HTC responds to Apple over antennagate
HTC’s Eric Lin has responded in statistical fashion to Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference where Steve Jobs showed off a Droid Eris losing singnal when death-gripped:
“Approximately .016% of customers [have complained]. We have had very few complaints about signal or antenna problems on the Eris”.
Which could also just mean there hasn’t been the [...]
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