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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych but they don't suffer when you touch it with one finger. You are incorrect. Think about this for a minute and you will realize you are wrong. Let me give you a hint: physics. The death grip is the w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BolQ9o_-Q68 HA HA! Proves nothing, troll! I kid... seriously, nice tight, quick video... speaks for itself. Thanks.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Not that I want to argue this point (much) since bars are a meaningless gauge of actual signal strength, but wasn?t there are a troll or two on these forums saying that the iPhone 4 was the only one to drop 5…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych The flaw with Apple's reasoning on this is that the iPhone 4 exhibits these attenuation signals from there mere touch of the seam between the two antennas. This is compounded by the fact that it happens to be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lukeskymac This kind of comments make me want to go kill myself... As I said before millions of times... THERE. IS. NO. ANTENNA. DESIGN. FLAW. SHUT THE FRACK UP AND STOP FUELING THIS GIZMODO DRIVEL. GODDAMIT…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Trajectory Don't waste your time on macrumors, it's crawling with idiots and run by douche-bags. Actually, I thought the mods there quite tolerant right up until I was banned. I actually requested a number of my pos…
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Quote: So far, the reports of the iPhone 4's antenna issues have been based entirely upon unscientific testing by users who don't understand how their signal bars work. Comments by engineers Steve Gibson and Simon Byrnand explain that the signal ba…
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1st Gen iPhone1,1 - iPhone iPhone1,2 - iPhone 3G the first two iPhones are considered the same hardware generation due to the hardware being very similar (effectively the same, but for upgraded radio and gps chip) 2nd Gen iPhone2,1 - iPhone…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro Anyone with a high school education should know that is a proper control in this experiment. The experiment, and I use the word loosely, won't tell you much. No matter how rigorously you test with one phone, y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro Touching a tiny sliver of the phone with a single finger is not "crowding the phone". right... it's touching with the skin... causing the attenuation issue. Think you can avoid touching that spot with your sin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro The control was in the hand placement which stayed constant throughout the entire experiment, which showed intact voice quality. The variable was the extra finger moving down the side until it came into contact …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Skin touching is a separate issue, as he did say. Engadget even mentioned that. You're talking about attenuation of reception, like Steve said. They are two separate issues. The videos shown it being reprodu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mazda 3s From Engadget: iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor SOMEONE was bound to predict some problem... just because the antenna was visible, someone was bound to explain how …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy If I recall, there's actually a code you can put in that will modify your sim to show signal strength in db, rather than bars. I can't remember what it is though. plutil -s SBShowRSSI -v YES com.apple.spri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 So is this a signal reception issue or a signal reception INDICATOR issue. That's a good point, though I doubt it's an indicator issue. THe question is why do we even have bars? What good do they do us? Eithe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro As an addendum to the original post, you don't need to be under a tower to know you have full strength on the phone. That's what 5 bars means on an iPhone 4, unless you are claiming that Apple falsely represents…
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro You don't understand the scientific method. The hypothesis was that holding a phone attenuates the signal. The experiment was done to evaluate this, by finding the exact location when the phone loses signal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy Actually, that manual is from the HTC Incredible http://member.america.htc.com/downlo...d-Warranty.pdf
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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro How does a single finger compromise an antenna? Easy answer: design flaw. Plain and simple. Cut and dry. That. Is. It. Ah... well, the actual rational explanation is that you're in an area of poor …
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Quote: Originally Posted by thespaz I have the same issue with my iPhone... however... I must note something that I've noticed about it. When I'm at my parents house on 3G, I get no signal loss when I cover the antenna with my hand and web pag…