Nokia seems to be enjoying the iPhone 4’s “death grip” issues. Days after new iPhone owners have been reporting dropped calls and signal loss caused by holding the phone a certain way (to which Jobs himself just told the fan “not to hold it that way,”), a post over at Nokia Conversations titled “How do you hold your Nokia?” takes a not-so subtle jab at Apple, mentioning that you can hold Nokia phones any way you want—or at least hold it like a phone, which is how it’s supposed to be held, anyway—and you wouldn’t suffer from signal degradation. Oh snap! That’s downright trash talk in the mobile phone world (where trash talk is generally pretty lame compared to the sports world and grade school playgrounds, so pardon us for blowing this totally out of proportion). Especially after Steve Jobs explained that “every phone has these areas of sensitivity.”
Anyway, the aftermath is that Apple is rumored to be working on a fix for the iPhone 4’s reception issues. Again, that’s the issue where touching the iPhone 4’s lower-left corner would cause the mobile signal to drop. As for Nokia and their “hold it any way you want” claim? Maybe someone should tell this guy to hold his E71 some other way. Just not the way he’s doing it in the video below.
According to Nokia’s blog post, it’s downright impossible to lose a signal from holding it normally after all. So yeah, looking at the video, maybe the signal loss was caused by the power of his mind. Or maybe he’s just holding it in a way not covered by the four positions detailed above. Or maybe it’s because he’s using a microcell signal booster.
He did provide some insight via a comment though, which somehow proved Jobs right:
“As I stated in the video notes above, this was caused by me covering the antenna on the lower back portion of the phone, below the battery cover. Thus, one can’t just cup the phone in one’s hands, but instead must deliberately avoid touching that area to avoid signal loss. I didn’t know this at the time I took the video. Still sucks, though.”
Finally, Apple just said that they broke some kind of sales record by moving more than 1.7 million iPhone 4s during the first three days since the June 24 launch (and they’re still running out). All that despite the antenna issues? Winner: Apple.
Tags: Antennagate, iPhone 4, Mobile Phones, Nokia
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