Apple, in an effort to move some of the negative publicity away from their iPhone 4 "antennagate" onto other phone makers, has released a video testing the new Motorola Droid X, which appears to have the same issues when held in the "death grip."
Posting the video on YouTube and their own site, Apple shows off the Droid X being held in two different grips, with the cell signal bars magnified ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by pensfan12: Just because it happens to other phones doesn't make it OK.
So all AM/FM radios are defective because they are capable of getting a bad signal?
No, but if they get clear signal with an empty car, and no signal when you have a passenger, then yes...that would be a defective radio, antenna, or some wiring in between.
Sure, all phones can have their signals blocked...there are even places that sat-phones don't work. The difference here is that calls are not being dropped from within a fallout shelter, they are being dropped from an office across the street from an AT&T tower...just because someone's pinky finger touched a part of the case.
I almost wonder if these videos were taken from within a shielded room...that way they can simply cut the signal from the room, and simulate a signal loss that way.
ive got an am/fm radio on my sterio in my lounge room and it doesnt even have an antenna and it gets perfect reception.I've never really had anything to do with apple basicaly cause all there products are extremely expensive and from a lot of the things ive seen on this forum apple makes very dodgy products.I like nokia mobile phones.never had a problem with a nokia.
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Quote:For god sake why do you people insist on beating a dead horse? Not to mention, if you don't like apple why are you paying attention to any news about them in the first place? I hate Linux but I don't feel the need to bitch about them in every news story I see about them. This must be office people with really boring jobs.
Unfortunately this phone is the one that leads the market and sets the trends. Usually this is not a big issue, except when the device setting the trends is so anti-consumer.
We, as non-Apple users have a vested interest in making sure the world understands just how effed up this company and this device is or we'll all end up using some version of this piece of manure in the future.
That's why all the anti-Apple people make such a big deal out of this stuff.
Umm, ive got lots of old phones, maybe i could keep my jammer off camera and death grip them all (jam jam jam), maybe apple would pay me money for making them feel better, by making more videos that made it appear you could death grip other phones.
You might have trouble doing it without cheating. The droidx has a much better antenna setup than the original droid, and I tried to make my original droid have the issues from the video. I held it every way that I could while still being able to see the signal display (even ways that blocked most of the screen). I tried holding my fingers against every part of the case, I tried wrapping both hands around it in order to block all signal...I couldn't get it to drop even one bar, even when I tested it from my bathroom (where I only get 2 bars to start with). Well, that isn't 100% true...I was able to get a drop in the bathroom when I held the phone next to an electric hair trimmer (like they use in barber shops)...when I turned it on, I lost all signal. Good thing I don't have to use my phone while trimming my beard.
Quote:For god sake why do you people insist on beating a dead horse? Not to mention, if you don't like apple why are you paying attention to any news about them in the first place? I hate Linux but I don't feel the need to bitch about them in every news story I see about them. This must be office people with really boring jobs.
Unfortunately this phone is the one that leads the market and sets the trends. Usually this is not a big issue, except when the device setting the trends is so anti-consumer.
We, as non-Apple users have a vested interest in making sure the world understands just how effed up this company and this device is or we'll all end up using some version of this piece of manure in the future.
That's why all the anti-Apple people make such a big deal out of this stuff.
