A video by Neil Curtis shows that even Steve Jobs and Apple don't know how to hold the iPhone "right".
Oh no! Seems like you are not allowed to touch the two antennas around the new iPhone 4, otherwise it looses reception! That's why Rory Sinclair wrote an email to Steve Jobs explaining the problem. He asks: "Is it possible this is a design flaw?" Jobs answer: "You're holding it wrong!". Thought I might find an explanation of how to hold it "right" at the introduction keynote of the iPhone 4...
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I thought you had to hold it like this in order for the reception to die.
https://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=10282
Holding it the way Steve Jobs did doesn't affect the reception. Clearly when he does the demonstrations, he had some
This is Apple's way of securing more dollars... Next month we'll be told that you can only use apple approved iPhone4 cases sold only by apple retail stores or else the phone doesn't work.
there comin out with the I GLOVE its a rubber glove used to elimanate your hands from being a conductor $39.95 glove comes in yellow red and pink and blue altho your hands will sweat you will gain bars!
I'm not an engeneer or anything like that but I belive that they had to use the outer side for GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth and the GSM inside just like before, most of the signal lost occur when both antennas are touched with your hands so it's like a conductive wire connecting the two antennas and thats why it is worst when the black lines are touched because there is more conductivity in your finger tip than in the palms of your hands
Leave it to the blogosphere to turn a mountain into a molehill once again. Neither Jobs nor Apple ever said anyone was holding the iPhone 4 "wrong."
A person complained that, in a certain grip position, reception was poor. Jobs responded not to hold it that way. "Wrong" was never used and this was really just a rhetorical exchange of words. Since every phone has position-dependent reception, it's obvious that if one position isn't good, you try another.
Now that antenna engineer Webb has weighed in on this and indicated that this issue stems from FCC testing rules and not from Apple doing anything that far out of the ordinary, it's time to move on.
o cmmon man, i am an apple user but its a big big flaw in the design, no phone has antenna outside it and u can hold phones in anyway you like they dont drop signals, its not a 1980s radio...
firstly i think you mean a molehill into a mountain lol. and secondly, the natural manner in which the phone is held by someone with their left hand is what causes the conduction and signal drop, you speak as if someone is holding their phone in a peculiar way, as a left handed person myself the way in which i hold my phone covers the antenna. The phone resting in your palm is the normal way to hold it because that is the most secure, so basically im paying somethin around £500 for a phone which i then have to grip from the top in an insecure position if i want to make a phone call. let's face it, it's a huge design flaw, that apple at the very least should own up to and apologise for, not just fob people off saying 'hold it another way'
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