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'Death Hug': Verizon iPhone Demonstrates Antenna Attenuation Issues

cgc said:
I hear when you hold the iPhone in your hand it significantly degrades your ability to see the screen...no mention of this affecting other phones.


(of course I'm kidding...can't see screen because your hand is in the way)
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That calls for a class action suit ... If they can't even make a phone where my hand becomes transparent when I cover parts of the screen - just a lame design. Don't care if that happens on other phones or not - Apple should have thought of this before making this stupid design :rolleyes:
 
mrochester said:
Well it does matter because the whole point of this discussion is to demonstrate that the iPhone 4 has a single major point of weakness that no other phone has. If the 3G or Droid Eris don't have a single spot like that then they don't have the same problem.

Unless you can name any other phone that can lose so much signal from a single spot, then the problem is most definitely not misguided; it still lands squarely on the iPhone 4.
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Get over it. It was a software issue with bars dropping. If you own a particular phone that loses calls when you hold it then bring it back and get it replaced. If you don't own one of these phones and you are complaining then you just like like to moan and complain about it.
 
What the cuss?

Are people really this ****** stupid? It's such a non-issue that even a complete deet de deee can work it out. All phones have attenuation!! Simple. Hold your phone like a normal person and there is no problem. iLounge must be desperate for hits or something. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
ten-oak-druid said:
Get over it. It was a software issue with bars dropping. If you own a particular phone that loses calls when you hold it then bring it back and get it replaced. If you don't own one of these phones and you are complaining then you just like like to moan and complain about it.
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I'm complaining because I want Apple to do better and to fix the problems/faults. If we just sit back and except it, we won't affect change!
 
I just watched the video. The 'death hug' is hilarious! He's clutching the phone so tightly he can hardly press the screen!!
 
The video makes no effort to see if this antenna bridging remains a factor on the Verizon iPhone 4.
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There you can be sure there isn't a problem. There's no way they would have missed the opportunity to report on something so easy to test.
 
Hawkeye411 said:
Why wouldn't they fix the problem? What is wrong with Apple? The quality is going downhill!!
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You're kidding right? EVERY PHONE Suffers antena attenuation if the antenas are covered.. I believed they rellocated the antennas so they are not covered during your normal holding style.. but that moron in the video had to grip the entire phone to cover the antennas.. even in his death grip he had a finger over the top part of the phone which is where i think apple most have relocated the radio and 3g antennas.. So apple technically "fixed" the issue.. however its not moron proof..
 
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Enough already. If you are having problems, just get a case. Problem solved. Move on.
 
I know I'm just repeating what a hundred other sensible people have pointed out, but this is just pathetic - iLounge must be desperate.

The original "death grip" was supposed to be an issue because just by holding one corner of the phone, you could attenuate the signal. In this video, the guy is practically sitting on top of it. He couldn't be trying harder to tightly cover every possible surface in both the "grip" and even more ridiculous "hug" positions, and even then he doesn't actually succeed in stopping the phone from loading, despite what he claims in the voiceover. No phone is going to be unaffected by that kind of handling, and more crucially, no phone is going to be held like that in real life anyway.

Utter, utter non-issue and I'm embarrassed for everyone involved.
 
who the heck squeezes their phone or gives it a "death hug"??.....gimme a break. any cellular device will react that way.
 
Lame report. The real test is antenna bridging, and they didn't test that - other reports have said that antenna bridging doesn't kill the signal and if that's true than this version IS a notable improvement.
 
Next they'll put it in a farraday cage and complain.
The whole deal about the first iphone was the one spot you couldn't touch and the fact that this spot coincided with how a lot of people hold their phones.
 
3 bar coverage?

Anyone else noticed he started out with 3 out of 4 bar coverage, before even starting to molest the phone? Ie. he's already in a bad coverage area...
 
davidsol said:
Just. Don't. Hold. It. That. Way.

OK?
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I should also point out-- try the "death choke". That's when you swallow your iphone. Once it's in your stomach, you'll notice severe antenna issues due to the mass of tissue between the device and the cellular network. However, your own cellular network, lining your stomach, will act as a faraday cage, so perhaps it's an unfair test.

So, what Steve said. OK?
 
Apple engineer: Steve I noticed a design flaw in the antenna

Steve: It's not a flaw, you are just stupid and holding it wrong

Apple engineer: Should we fix this?

Steve: No

Apple engineer: Why not?

Steve: Because i will sell millions of iphones to the suckers who not only put up with a defective device but will defend it just because it's an apple product.
Then next i'll sell millions of phones to those sucker fanboys again.

Apple engineer: Really?

Steve: Yeah just look.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1093267/
 
I think we can all agree that the moral of this thread is that ilounge was desperate for hits and that if you make a painfully stupid video about holding iPhone like a moron to try and "prove" some issue with the phone people will react.

They got their reaction now let's close this thread
 
deputy_doofy said:
iLounge must need some hits. Hasn't it been proven that all phones do this to some extent? Or are we ignoring signal degradation when it happens to other phones?
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iPhone = High Profile, Apple big money, so some people have to bash what they can where they can.

In the video , I'd say its the cheap wedding band the guy had on that made the signal degrade.

Who cares there still going to sell millions of them and people are going to bitch about what ever they can , human nature.
 
I just did the "Death Hug" around my neck to attenuated the blood and air and guess what?....I dropped 3 bars.
 
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