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OMG... antenna ISSUE Shocks you if your hand is slightly Damp!
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Really? Because 9V from an antenna would be the equivalent of 32 dBm...
Ahhh forget it, not worth the fight.
Ahhh forget it, not worth the fight.
It's a preinstalled hardware feature to support the upcoming defibrillator app for medical personnel.
Yeah, but to be honest he's wrong about this. If the antenna is giving a charge, that's an issue. This is NOT normal and acceptable.
I don't have the issue with mine, but enough people have proved it to be true. Something is going wrong here, some sort of manufacturing QC issue that needs to be addressed.
For those experiencing the issue, I say return it until you get one that works. Mine is fine so I know many of them must be.
From the "Things we understood in the 80's but forgot until now" department:
So a rubberized external cell phone antennae wasn't just a fashion statement?
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THANK YOU! I can't believe the posters who act like antennas were done away with because there was some sort of issue with them. The only issue was vanity and pocketability. People don't like cell phones with antennas. it's that simple.
Are we sure that it's REALLY water/sweat on their hands???
What exactly are they DOING with that phone? Maybe a little black light will tell us more.
What exactly are they DOING with that phone? Maybe a little black light will tell us more.
What if you get pushed into a pool? Will you die?
Haha these posts are killing me haha...
I'll leave this issue to the "testers" who are no doubt wetting and applying various body parts to different areas of their i4s.
Good luck with that.
Good luck with that.
Your missing the point, this is just another symptom of the signal dropping issue. Sure, on a normal basis people shouldn't be grabbing their phones with wet hands, and on the rare occasion they do...well...that's not what I'm concerned about.
What I'm concerned about is that we have an issue with the antenna build/design and some sort of QC issue. So stop picking on how these guys are choosing to test the symptom and start paying attention to the real issue.
What I'm concerned about is that we have an issue with the antenna build/design and some sort of QC issue. So stop picking on how these guys are choosing to test the symptom and start paying attention to the real issue.
It just gives you that extra boost to provide the 1.21 jigawatts necessary to power the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.
You're actually comparing that to holding a cellphone in a wet hand...?
People are conditioned to cellphones being plastic and safe to hold when-effing-ever, and I guarantee you that right this minute there's about 3,000,000 people out there in the world picking up their cellphones on the beach after a swim, surfing the web in the bathtub, answering a call holding the phone against wet hair because they just came out of the shower... it's not on anyone's map that they would receive a shock from a damn cellphone. They know not to bring it with them while scuba diving, but apart from that, anything goes. And sometimes people need to make emergency calls in horrible situations where they have more critical things on their minds than looking for the nearest butler ready to hand them a dry towel.
But whatever, I'm looking forward to stories like "iPhone short circuited my grandmother's pacemaker" and "iPhone 4 proven to be world's most efficient lightning rod - user incinerated after attracting flash from thundercloud 6 miles away".
Well, looks and pocketability are obviously part of it but there's also SAR ratings to consider. Manufacturers don't want to hear that their products are veritable microwave ovens that cook people's brains, and the FCC (and their equivalents worldwide) make a big deal about the antenna's proximity to the brain. That's why antennas these days are usually located at the bottom of the phone, behind the microphone. For a while there (before antennas became internal) it was popular to put a stubby antenna at the top and those obviously got poor SAR ratings because the tip of the antenna was just above the ear. Since an external antenna that sticks out at the bottom of the phone would be incredibly inconvenient and stupid looking, they did away with external antennas altogether once the whole SAR rating thing took off.
Electric shock?
This new iPhone sounds dangerous!
I don't like the sound of that at all.
Someone needs to contact a governmental agency who deals with such shoddy products before Apple electrocutes some innocent MR fanboy. This should be looked into. Losing your recption is one thing, but having an electrical current coarsing through your body is unacceptable. Please tell me this is not true. I would think Apple was more careful than that. Maybe THATS why they have us buy the bumper. It prevents electric shock by insulating your hand.
This new iPhone sounds dangerous!
I don't like the sound of that at all.
Someone needs to contact a governmental agency who deals with such shoddy products before Apple electrocutes some innocent MR fanboy. This should be looked into. Losing your recption is one thing, but having an electrical current coarsing through your body is unacceptable. Please tell me this is not true. I would think Apple was more careful than that. Maybe THATS why they have us buy the bumper. It prevents electric shock by insulating your hand.