Have you tried it with your Droid X?
If you want to compare Apples to Apples you must use dBm!!!
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Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video
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Have you tried it with your Droid X?
If you want to compare Apples to Apples you must use dBm!!!
Tired of turning the other cheek
I'm glad Apple is hitting back. Nokia was pretty quick to launch a full-page ad saying "You can hold your Nokia phone any way you want."
Of course, their owners manuals say a different thing:
http://funsizebytes.com/post/745721120/instructions-from-my-nokia-2320
Oh, and one more thing. If you're "very unimpressed with Apple", go comment on Gizmodo or CNET. We're unimpressed with you.
I'm glad Apple is hitting back. Nokia was pretty quick to launch a full-page ad saying "You can hold your Nokia phone any way you want."
Of course, their owners manuals say a different thing:
http://funsizebytes.com/post/745721120/instructions-from-my-nokia-2320
Oh, and one more thing. If you're "very unimpressed with Apple", go comment on Gizmodo or CNET. We're unimpressed with you.
Wow. You could use a break, bud.
Apple's being childish. Simple as that. They made a conscious decision to divert X amount of money from who-knows-what to making videos about how other phones have problems. The issue was over when they solved it with free bumpers, they should have just left it at that.
I wish people wouldn't stop using the term 'bridging' as if it's some real concept. You don't even know what the h*** you are talking about.
Not that I'm saying you made this up, but I don't believe you.
The iPhone 4 will only lose 2 bars even if you death grip the hell out of it.Incidentally, I can only make mine drop bars if I squeeze the hell out of it. Laying a finger on the seam doesn't do anything.
Sorry. I'm not going back to the Apple Store to show you the same thing that happens on YouTube.
Well if you wanna talk about dBm you should know that the iPhone 4 can maintain service down to a lower dBm than nearly ALL other phones.
Pathetic, Apple. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Besides, you can drop the signal on your iPhone with just ONE FINGER. Show us what other phone is that sensitive? You won't find one, because no other phone uses such a retarded external antenna design.
Besides, you can drop the signal on your iPhone with just ONE FINGER. Show us what other phone is that sensitive? You won't find one, because no other phone uses such a retarded external antenna design.
In addition, the way the Droid X was held in that video you could not talk on the phone anyway.
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iPhone -> iPhone 3G -> iPhone 3GS -> Droid X
I see Steve has brainwashed you too. Wait until you go to an area that doesn't have the STRONGEST AT&T signal available, then try it. If you even barely touch the phone in the wrong way, you lose a call. It's clearly not the same as other phones, as they would like you to believe. I've owned dozens of phones prior to the iP4 - never this issue. It's a joke and the people who believe this Apple PR BS haven't a brain far enough developed to think for themselves.
And antennagate is complete BS because no matter how hard I try, I can't get my ip4 to drop bars.
Or maybe you and I are in areas with good reception.
Just sayin...
I don't have an iPhone4, and have not tried it with that phone, but a lot of the issue is just wrapping your hand around the antenna.
I did it with my Droid X and previously on my Blackberry.
My job is a location sound mixer, and we see this all the time. say I wire two people with transmitters on their waist clipped to their belts. They face each other and speak. If I stand behind one, that person gives full signal. Often the other person will block a lot of the signal with their body. It's often not much of an issue because I am close enough to grab signal bouncing off other things, but there is a definite drop in signal.
Good job Apple, keep attacking these idiots. You should also show demonstrations of how terrible the other OS's are. Android is junk; wouldn't be difficult to show in a short video.
I have never, ever had this experience in the hills of ky, the valleys of indiana, or the catskills in new york. I have only had problems when in poor signal areas, like inside office buildings, or other large, angular structures.
Saying it three times will not make you any closer to having a minor clue as to what you are talking about.
Apple isn't being childish at all. These other companies are putting out statements saying their phones are perfect and trying to damage Apple's reputation (ie, hurt their business). Apple has an obligation to defend their reputation and business. They just choose to do it in this mildly amusing expose kind of way.
If it can easily demonstrated that these phones suffer from a death grip too, why should Apple alone be the one taking all the hits over it, not just from the press but also from other manufacturers who are jealous of Apple's success?
Its your demonstration I want to see? Being you have three phones in same place at the same time, this would be great?
Or I call it ********!!!
Not that I'm saying you made this up, but I don't believe you.
Incidentally, I can only make mine drop bars if I squeeze the hell out of it. Laying a finger on the seam doesn't do anything.
This is what gets me. You say it only loses 2 bars.... for YOU...in YOUR area. People can't think far enough out of the box Steve made for them to realize that people experience this issue differently. I hope all you people who swear that there isn't a problem at all (because YOU don't have the problem) have to move soon and end up in an area where you experience the same thing all of the time. THEN you'll be the ones on here complaining.
O-goodie, more fresh Kool-aid.
This bar stuff is POINTLESS without looking at the relative drop in signal strength. Interestingly, Apple took the field test mode away in iOS 4 that would have allow the more quantitative comparison of these handsets. I know this point may be lost on the Apple fanboys, who seem enthralled with the bars, since it fits into their world view that Apple is somehow perfect.
At the end of the day, for many, there is a significant drop in call quality when holding it in the left hand. I would love to give some numbers, but Apple took the ability away to do this, when it introduced the OS that runs the flawed handset.
This bar stuff is POINTLESS without looking at the relative drop in signal strength. Interestingly, Apple took the field test mode away in iOS 4 that would have allow the more quantitative comparison of these handsets. I know this point may be lost on the Apple fanboys, who seem enthralled with the bars, since it fits into their world view that Apple is somehow perfect.
At the end of the day, for many, there is a significant drop in call quality when holding it in the left hand. I would love to give some numbers, but Apple took the ability away to do this, when it introduced the OS that runs the flawed handset.
I have read reports that two iP4 side by side, one exhibited this issue and one did not.
Apple really has a problem on their hands with this bad publicity (At least the signal attenuation problem is easily fixable. Why do people complain most about the smallest problems when it comes to Apple?); they could lose a few thousand customers who would be happier with the iPhone, regardless of antenna issues!
I'm not sure if this is the right response, but I can see what they're trying to say. The issue isn't really an issue. Obviously they should fix it, but it isn't a life-or-death scenario, and the iPhone is STILL rated more highly than any other smartphone, even with the signal issue. But I guess I'm used to explaining to idiots why Apple is better than just about everything out there. Some people don't seem to understand what's important in a tech device.
I'm not sure if this is the right response, but I can see what they're trying to say. The issue isn't really an issue. Obviously they should fix it, but it isn't a life-or-death scenario, and the iPhone is STILL rated more highly than any other smartphone, even with the signal issue. But I guess I'm used to explaining to idiots why Apple is better than just about everything out there. Some people don't seem to understand what's important in a tech device.