My iPad 2 drops 1 bar from wifi when I hold it like he did in the video consistently.
my iPad 1 is rock solid.
my iPad 1 is rock solid.
I wonder if the issue is worse on 3G models. I have a 3G and have this problem. Do others of you who do not have the problem have a Wifi only model?
I have a wifi only iPad 2 and can't replicate it. Wonder if it is isolated to the 3G units.
I have a 64GB WiFi 3g, and my WiFi bars do not drop at all while holding it with my hand over the speaker or any other way for that matter.
Who cares, hold it a different way, why would you want to block the speaker anyways?
Before the iPhone 4, no one was even looking at this kind of thing. Apple brought all this on themselves with such a glaring design decision on the iPhone 4. Now everything they do is under a microscope. Maybe they'll think twice about putting the antenna on the exterior of their next phone (with a short-circuit spot where you hold it).So from now on eaverytime apple releases a product someone on the Internet is going to find the antenna block it and then create a video about it? great.
Who holds their iPad like that?? Does it do this holding it in landscape?
IPad 2 is suffering the death grip issue. I'm used to landscape mode, holding with my left hand. When holding near the speaker grille, the wifi signal strength drops instantly. I guess I never noticed this for the iPad 1 since it was always in a case.
Anyone else have this problem?
My iPad 2 drops 1 bar from wifi when I hold it like he did in the video consistently.
my iPad 1 is rock solid.
Lmao why are you holding your iPad like this though? I'm actually legitimately curious, or maybe im just accustomed to having a case/ cover and always keep my volume side up where the speaker is.
In any case, 16 gig, black wifi only model here, can't reproduce it, been trying for a few seconds, stopped caring after I realized I'm actively trying to make my device dysfunctional in the dumbest way possible.
This might be more absurd than the people that don't notice their backlight until they go into a closet and blind themselves with the backlight by staring at a bright screen in the dark.
Every small radio device is going to have some scenario where you can block the signal with your body. "Antennagate" should have been over and done with about 100 years ago, the first time somebody touched a radio antenna and lost their channel.
Yes I have experienced this exact same scenario.
However the reason I don't see it as a problem, is I do understand that Apple is having a problem learning how to build the proper antenna for it's devices.
I do believe that at some point Apple will finally figure out how to implement antennas, and this issue will be behind us.