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Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video

Personally, I like the comparison videos.

Apple was being attacked by people who claimed the iPhone should not be purchased because of its signal issues. Since Apple could not win the fight by saying, "Holding the phone doesn't affect the signal" (because it does, correct?), they needed to show that their design was not the only phone on the market affected by being held in such a manner.

I think it's a great move. You can't just sit back and keep getting punched without fighting back. Without these videos, the whole world would still consider the iPhone to be the only phone that has these issues.
 
Some of you are too butt-hurt.

Apples point is simple; EVERY phone has this problem.
Yet when people found out about the iPhone doing it, Apple got crucified. I hope they keep making these videos so that people can stop whining and realize its an industry wide issue with EVERY phone.
 
I'm actually very impressed. Apple need to do that because all the children in the news media needed to see this. And they need to grow up and stop blowing this out of proportion. iPhone 4 has NO Antenna issues. Get over it.
 
Funny how I saw this I think on engadget and also on you tube the other day before apple posted this. (btw it wasn't apple
That posted the other two) it could have happened to any other phone and Boone would have cared but since it was the iPhone everyone made a fuss about it. All of it is pointless especially consumer reports for listing yhe iPhone as number one but "not recommending it". Who cares use what you like and if you use what you don't like that doesn't suit your needs return whatever phone/product an move on with your life.
 
ouimetnick said:
So if you hold a phone like a retard/grip it tightly (very unnatural) it loses a few bars, and keeps the call. Place a metal object to bridge the lower left side of an iPhone 4, or touch it lightly with your finger, or even holding iPhone 4 normaly drops the call, and displays "Searching":confused:

Can someone explain how those are the same?:confused::confused:
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Agree! Watch the video and notice where his index finger is placed. It's placed in an awkward position on the top of the phone? Come on apple, no one holds it like that!

On the other hand, if you hold the iphone 4 in a natural way then that bars/reception goes down.

I really like apple products, but they are acting real dirty right now.

By the way, my old samsung flip phone had a sticker on the top-back side that said, do not cover this area during a call because the antenna will be affected and you could lose reception. This idea of not touching the antenna has been well known way before the iphone 4. It's only becoming apparent now because 1. it's apple and 2. they put the antenna in a bad place where you would touch it simply by holding it naturally.
 
ouimetnick said:
So if you hold a phone like a retard/grip it tightly (very unnatural) it loses a few bars, and keeps the call. Place a metal object to bridge the lower left side of an iPhone 4, or touch it lightly with your finger, or even holding iPhone 4 normaly drops the call, and displays "Searching":confused:

Can someone explain how those are the same?:confused::confused:
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just wondering...do you own an iPhone 4? Have you tried to "lightly touch" an iphone 4 with one finger and have it drop more than 3 bars? If you open up a droid x, find where the actual antenna is, and draw a circle around it, then place one finger over said circle..i'm sure similar things would happen to what happens with the iphone.

I'm also wondering about people who say that some kind of "short" happens. If the antenna were to "short out" it would drop the call immediately, instead of waiting untill the bars slowly drop to zero, then dropping.

This is a non issue to anyone I know who owns an iPhone 4. I know probably 20 odd people who own them.
 
AidenShaw said:
Did you miss the entire Mac vs. PC series of ads?
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Did you miss it lol? Remember how they would always show how a PC got viruses and say a mac didn't? There not showcasing the good things about the phone instead Apple is showing that if you grip and phone tight enough you can make the antenna bars go down, when they should be showing how the iPhone 4 screen is so clear you can't tell it apart from printed text as they said. Thats what they should be uploading not trying to back there way out of it.

I will admit Apple messed up on the antenna design, it was stupid for them to make the antenna so exposed. So there giving away bumpers that should be the end of it, they should be uploading and having commercials saying were giving away bumpers to all iPhone 4 customers.
 
Gen said:
Some of you are too butt-hurt.

Apples point is simple; EVERY phone has this problem.
Yet when people found out about the iPhone doing it, Apple got crucified. I hope they keep making these videos so that people can stop whining and realize its an industry wide issue with EVERY phone.
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EXACTLY! See my post above yours. I agree wholeheartedly. You can't sit at your desk and get blasted. Sometimes you have to take the fight to the competition. Bring it. Woohoo
 
xmtgx said:
Very true, I enjoyed how retarded it made apple look with there fail computers..
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As opposed to how retarded it is to not be able to spell "their" correctly in the context of your brilliant addition to this thread...

I say go for it Apple. Your product was crushed by the media looking for a "weak spot" which was eventually acknowledged by Apple.

They will only post more videos if phone manufacturers keep poking fun.

When the USA gets its act together and builds a 21st century network of quality no one will have problems with their smartphone reception.

Google NextG and Telstra
 
It is kind of amusing considering the X poster said you can hold it however you want without losing signal.
I do think though Apple should just put the stick down and let this issue die down.
 
Negative PR required by Apple

The blogosphere thrashing Apple took over antennagate has set the ground rules for the smartphone antenna debate. Apple has to respond this way to fight for its reputation.

Lately when I tell people I have the iPhone 4 they immediately ask about the antenna. It's become the iP4's reputation. Perhaps Apple is just simply attempting to share the 'antenna nega-fame' with its competitors.
 
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hismikeness said:
I don't know... those were obviously and intentionally toungue-in-cheek.

This seems somewhat venomous.
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Yes, Apple is being venomous.

They can dish out "tongue-in-cheek" ads, but when the RDF is challenged Apple gets mean and steps up the "lie machine".

And I say "lie" only because it doesn't look like any other phone has a "sweet spot of death" where a light touch can knock out the signal.

"Death grip" is an unfortunate phrase, because many phones have problems if you entirely surround the antenna or large parts of it with fleshy body parts. Few, if any, other phones have the problem of catastrophic loss of signal due to a fingertip in the wrong place.
 
ouimetnick said:
So if you hold a phone like a retard/grip it tightly (very unnatural) it loses a few bars, and keeps the call. Place a metal object to bridge the lower left side of an iPhone 4, or touch it lightly with your finger, or even holding iPhone 4 normaly drops the call, and displays "Searching":confused:

Can someone explain how those are the same?:confused::confused:
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Um, seriously?

Placing a metal conductor over the lower left corner of your iPhone to bridge the antennas is a normal occurrence?

Yes, bridging the antennas changes the properties of the antennas, and causes attenuation. But can we argue that any antenna in any phone could be made theoretically better? Of course.

It sounds like you're in the camp that believes this is a fundamental engineering/design flaw, which the data -- both anecdotal and otherwise -- shows is incorrect.

To each his own, I suppose...
 
It's a perfectly valid point to make, there is no reason why Apple should have been singled out for this issue. Other companies have not been made to feel compelled to give away free cases like Apple has.

Gizmodo are just being childish, if Apple had done to Gizmodo what Gizmodo did to Apple on the eve of their single most important product update Gizmodo would have done exactly the same thing Apple did.

If what Gizmodo has done was legal then nothing would have happened to Gizmodo.

The Droid X is a nice phone, I'm sure they will sell millions of units and people will be very happy with their Droids. It's not perfect though as it still has an internal antenna which will mean that if you hold it wrong you can disrupt the signal. I personally prefer the iPhone because of the size and features but if people don't mind using an enormous phone I'm sure they will be perfectly happy with the Droid X.
 
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LordJohnWhorfin said:
- Hello, I'm an iPhone
- and I'm a Droid X.
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iPhone: Hi Droid x. What you doing?
Droid X: Trying desperately to lose some bars. Can you help?
iPhone: I know a funny story about losing things in bars.... It all started when this kid found me.......
 
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