iPhone 4 aerial issues?

[broc]

Several posts on the www reporting signal strength dropping when users 'hold' their bare metal iPhone 4 handsets....

[webman]

Does the iPhone’s antenna cause reception problems? (UPDATED)

 

Touching an antenna usually affects the signal. I don't know how they never realised this.

[somabc]

It’s also been suggested that holding the phone by the bezel doesn’t interfere with the signal, but the animation indicating signal strength.

Suggested by an idiot perhaps?

[LosOjos]

Does the iPhone’s antenna cause reception problems? (UPDATED)

 

Touching an antenna usually affects the signal. I don't know how they never realised this.

 

LMAO! I'm not usually one to say this but, EPIC FAIL!

[ICT_GUY]

Iphone 4's don't like to be touched.

[tech_guy]

Will it blend? iPhone 4

 

 

 

lolz

[ZeroHour]

Several posts on the www reporting signal strength dropping when users 'hold' their bare metal iPhone 4 handsets....

 

Yep and it can drop from 4 bars to nothing.... and thats on 2g without 3g's additional temprament issues.

[JPS]

Unbelievable, what have Apple done?? Damn good reason to get an android based machine (in my case Dell Streak - it is superb) which fortunately does allow you to make/receive calls when you are holding it.

[tmcd35]

As the comments rightly say in that thread - 'So that's why apple introduced the 'bumper' cover!'. Charge you and extra £30 to get a signel. Gutted!

[webman]

This just demonstrates that Apple are a marketing company, not a technology company. It all went down hill when Steve Wozniak left.

[LosOjos]

This just demonstrates that Apple are a marketing company, not a technology company. It all went down hill when Steve Wozniak left.

 

Agreed. I'm actually inclined to agree with the conspiracy theorists for once: how could they possibly have missed this during testing? Is it really a huge coincidence that a launch day peripheral (the 'bumper') fixes the problem? It does make you wonder whether it was planned...

[ZeroHour]

The thing that concerns me is will it drop out when your in the middle of a call as I suspect it might. The other possible is it could be a bug due to the new module in the iphone 4 that varies bands etc as per load on the network (I think)

[ZeroHour]

On a side point in iTunes store if you click on the small box called "iPhone 4" (down the page) the link is hxxp://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?cid=EU-iTunes-Brick-UK are they trying to tell us something....

[tech_guy]

Interesting stuff on Gizmodo:

 

iPhone 4 Loses Reception When You Hold It By The Antenna Band?

[tmcd35]

The thing that concerns me is will it drop out when your in the middle of a call as I suspect it might. The other possible is it could be a bug due to the new module in the iphone 4 that varies bands etc as per load on the network (I think)

 

The link above suggest it's caused by your skin touching the two ariels and shorting them, so yes if you move your hand mid call and cause the short the signal would probably vanish. Thus the bumper is the 'cure', and the conspiracy is rife.

 

I'll of course be popping into an Apple store before I get the phone on Sat and be purchasing a bumper - as per what his Lord Job wants. Not happy!

[tech_guy]

iPhone 4 dismantled:

 

iPhone 4 vivisected in 'first legal teardown' ? The Register

[webman]

Translated information on antenna and signal from a professor: Google Oversæt

[ICT_GUY]

I have to laugh when fan boys rush out to buy the first run of anything as they are bound to be faulty. Ipod nano Screen? Xbox 360?

[broc]

They don't call it bleeding edge technology for nothing........

[LosOjos]

They don't call it bleeding edge technology for nothing........

 

Did anybody watch the televised version of Going Postal the other week? Apple are like the Klacks...

[Hightower]

I'll of course be popping into an Apple store before I get the phone on Sat and be purchasing a bumper - as per what his Lord Job wants. Not happy!

 

And who's the fool there then? Certainly isn't Apple!

[LosOjos]

I'll of course be popping into an Apple store before I get the phone on Sat and be purchasing a bumper - as per what his Lord Job wants. Not happy!

 

@tmcd35: Why on earth would you buy a piece of hardware with a known major fault? I'm not going to buy one anyway, but if I was, I'd wait a couple of months for it to be fixed and let the other bugs (there are bound to be some) get ironed out first!

Edited June 24, 2010 by LosOjos

[webman]

@LosOjos It's not a bug. It's a design feature.

[tmcd35]

Why on earth would you buy a piece of hardware with a known major fault? I'm not going to buy one anyway, but if I was, I'd wait a couple of months for it to be fixed and let the other bugs (there are bound to be some) get ironed out first!

 

Need a new phone as the current one is slowly dying. This is a design flaw that isn't likely to be fixed in a couple of months. For the (annoying) sake of an additional £25 the problem is solved. Not ideal, they should really give the bumpers away given the situation, but still. Besides I ordered the phone in the wee hours of the morning before I really grasped the magnitude of this design flaw.

 

Oh and I'm vendor locked to iTunes thanks to some early DRM purchases.

 

Oh-hum, life goes on. I get the phone I want, at a price I'm happy with. Little else really matters - as others have said, it's only a phone.

[ICT_GUY]

@LosOjos It's not a bug. It's a design feature.

 

Undocumented design feature you mean.