Apple has released videos to demonstrate industry wide challenges with mobile phone antennas. These videos compared the signal displays of the iPhone 4, BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris, Nokia N97, Samsung Omnia II and iPhone 3GS. When held tightly, the signal drops without exception on all phones.
Understandably, competitors have rejected the suggestion that their products share the same antenna problems as the iPhone 4. BlackBerry and Nokia have responded as blogged here. Samsung has responded since.
Apple certainly isn't shy when it comes to bringing its competitors back down to earth. As this cage match continues, the latest to be thrown into the ring is, the new Motorola Droid X.
It will be interesting to watch how this plays out.....
A few posts down you have an entry titled “iPhone 4 Antenna Problem Blown Way Out of Proportion” which goes on to tell us how the whole antenna problem seems just like big media hype, yet your latest entry shows apples childish ways of trying to prove they’re not the only one with the problem. Seems like Apple is making more of an issue then anyone else. You’ll notice in this you tube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmVpoccPnc&feature=fvst )when the iphone is tested the the bars start at 4 and 5 bars so the guy seems to be somewhere which has good reception, yet in the Motorola clip, the phone starts at 2 and 3 bars, so looks a bit suss to me, perhaps Apple did the test in a basement somewhere. Also the guy in the apple clip picks up the phone and the signal drops quite quickly and he’s holding it like you’d hold any regular phone, while in the Motorola clip the fingers seems to be squeezing the heck out of the phone (I’m sure if there was sound to the clip you’d be hearing some huffing and puffing) and it takes quite a while for the bars to drop. Also the fingers are wrapped around the phone in a weird way (try hold the phone like in the screen shot below and you’ll find the middle finger doesn’t naturally wrap around a phone that way) as if perhaps Apple have opened the Motorola, found where the antenna is and have held the phone in a way to block the antenna so that the connection drops. I personally think Apple are the only ones with the issue at the moment.
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