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'Death Hug': Verizon iPhone Demonstrates Antenna Attenuation Issues
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Where in this video does he even come close to using a single fingertip?
He's manhandling that phone like it owes him money.
I've tried this on my own Verizon iPhone. Can't replicate it at all.
Who the heck holds their phone like this anyway? This is like saying, "Did you know that when you cover your eyes, you can't see? That's a major defect."
Who the heck holds their phone like this anyway? This is like saying, "Did you know that when you cover your eyes, you can't see? That's a major defect."
What a non story....
Who holds their phone like that? When he was showing the 3G "problem" his palm and fingers were covering a 1/3 of the screen. Please...
Biggest non-issue I have seen to date with the iPhone and there have been a lot of them.
Who holds their phone like that? When he was showing the 3G "problem" his palm and fingers were covering a 1/3 of the screen. Please...
Biggest non-issue I have seen to date with the iPhone and there have been a lot of them.
Tiresome crap
Done for the page hit. "New media" can be just as tiresome as dead tree journalism. Here's a hint: use some respect for your audience when you're thinking of a story.
You know, I've also discovered if I hold the bottom vents on the iPhone 4, I block the speakers, and the sound is attenuated! Yes, it is, Christopher Robin. Solution: don't hold it that way.
Everybody is raving about the reception they're getting on Verizon, and the lack of dropped calls. Same basic phone. Different result. Difference: a network that has a huge debt from ambitious expansion in the early 2000's, still has a rat's nest of incompatible billing systems to work out -- try to get a regular landline, UVerse and cellphone working on AT&T -- and as a result spends 90% of its capital on Billing and Debt Service! They haven't spent enough on towers and engineering!
I'm sure Verizon's records will show the same very low dropout rate as any other phone. This is sheer stupidity, and an obvious example of where Jobs' flip remark was exactly right. Don't squeeze the phone so damn tight and you won't be shocked by losing bars, which has a rough but only approximate relationship with actually getting a bad connection.
Done for the page hit. "New media" can be just as tiresome as dead tree journalism. Here's a hint: use some respect for your audience when you're thinking of a story.
You know, I've also discovered if I hold the bottom vents on the iPhone 4, I block the speakers, and the sound is attenuated! Yes, it is, Christopher Robin. Solution: don't hold it that way.
Everybody is raving about the reception they're getting on Verizon, and the lack of dropped calls. Same basic phone. Different result. Difference: a network that has a huge debt from ambitious expansion in the early 2000's, still has a rat's nest of incompatible billing systems to work out -- try to get a regular landline, UVerse and cellphone working on AT&T -- and as a result spends 90% of its capital on Billing and Debt Service! They haven't spent enough on towers and engineering!
I'm sure Verizon's records will show the same very low dropout rate as any other phone. This is sheer stupidity, and an obvious example of where Jobs' flip remark was exactly right. Don't squeeze the phone so damn tight and you won't be shocked by losing bars, which has a rough but only approximate relationship with actually getting a bad connection.
Am I the only one?
Who didn't notice that this is a jailbroken AT&T iphone? you can see the antenna gap at the bottom and on the top you can see the battery percentage. He changed the provider name. For all we know he has an app that slows down the data and uses the volume button to activate it.
Who didn't notice that this is a jailbroken AT&T iphone? you can see the antenna gap at the bottom and on the top you can see the battery percentage. He changed the provider name. For all we know he has an app that slows down the data and uses the volume button to activate it.
next we'll have the "death walk," where if you stand on top of your iphone, it breaks
:d
I don't have to squeeze my iPhone at all to make it drop to 'no service', I just have to touch this one spot, which just so happens to be exactly where my hand rest when I'm holding the phone. Care to explain that issue?
And if you put it into a bag made out of aluminum foil the signal drops instantly please fix this apple its a huge fault
What part of Microwave RF don't the children understand
Jeez, just turn up the RF wattage and cook your fingers and boil your blood. Now that would be news!
Jeez, just turn up the RF wattage and cook your fingers and boil your blood. Now that would be news!
As jtalbert says, who the **** holds the phone like that anyhow. No one really does a death grip unless they are holding it tight falling from a rock climbing expedition and the death hug is maybe when kids are texting under the dinner table
In case anyone is interesting, I hold the phone like a book opened up one handed with the bottom edge of the leaning on my pinky. Just try not to think too much about how to hold the phone just pick it up so that you could see the screen and thats it! No death grips you can't use your thumb to move the icons on the screen and such.
Oh man, I just tried, I just shut off completely until my brother came in and reset me?? I think human bodies were designed wrong - we should get refunds!!!
yeah this guy is just trying to get traffic on his site which is why he said, "we were the first to do it with the att iPhone."
Either way im getting the Thunderbolt though, talking and surfing are only important to me when im driving and using maps, so I dont lose my directions...
which is a lot, so verizon talking and surfing here I come, FINALLY!
I been sasying that for 25 years, and only until someone does it to an iPhone does anyone care!
Typical fanboy response.
The "death hug" is quite similar to the normal way to hold a phone. What is abnormal is fanboys and their messiah Steve telling us to hold the phone with our fingertips.
Lol, oh please. Shoving "fanboy" into your post over and over just makes you look like you're desperate to make a point. Suddenly everything I say is bias! Gasp!
You can't honestly expect me to believe that's an average way of holding the phone and that this person suddenly realized "Ouup! What's happening to my wifi!?" Please, they purposely groped that phone until they found a drop... hence the "death hug."
And look, I just made another fanboy response. Damn.
this post is absolutely ridiculous! do you see how he's holding it? who would ever hold it that way? it's like... so inconvenient. he's trying to make the antenna bars go down. you could do that to any phone if you tried. the "issue" with the at&t model is that it happened when people held it regularly. not ridiculously.
1) if you refuse to get a cover and 2) if you insist on holding it your way and 3) if you live in an area where AT&T coverage is that bad to begin with and 4) if you refuse to switch carriers and get the verizon iPhone instead
I dont think explaining anything to you will help at all.
you have choices. exercise them.
have a nice day
