Last Friday at Apple Press Conference, Steve Jobs said every smartphone has death grip reception and antenna attenuation problem. Nokia and RIM took serious note of Steve Jobs statement and responded angrily that Apple should work on its iPhone 4 antenna design rather than blaming them. But some curious guys like BoyGenius worked on that Steve Jobs statement and performed tests on BlackBerry Bold 9650 and HTC Google Nexus One, both high-end mobile phones from RIM and HTC.
BlackBerry Bold 9650 Death Grip Test:
Google Nexus One Death Grip Test
Both of the phones failed the test, looks like Jobs was right. So does that mean Apple iPhone 4 has no reception problem? or every smartphone have the Antennagate issue?
Let us know your thoughts in the comment box below.
Update 1: More smartphones death grip test, and they all failed !
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S Death Grip Test
HTC EVO 4G Death Grip Test
Android G1 Death Grip Test
HTC Incredible Death Grip Test
[Source: BGR, Youtube]
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Clearly this person is bias. I have been using N1 for 6 months on T-mobile network and I have never experienced issues related to lost signal do to the way I hold my phone. People forget that iphone was never and I want to repeat never a good phone. I always had mediocre reception quality. The new design of iphone 4 only make things worse. My suggestion would be to redesign the phone components that are responsible for acceptable signal reception. Then, the reception signal will not be impacted by the way you want to hold your phone.
lol dont try to have HTC and BBerry share the limelight w/ apple. Holding any electronic will cause minor signal changes…ur like an antennae. but the iphone is more than minor signal changes. Apple should have been “HUMBLE” and accepted the fault like HTC would have and work on the quickest way back into their loyal customers who always shell out big bucks throughout the year keeping up with the latest models they put out. But instead Apple chose to be…”Stuckup” as if Apples word is engraved in stone and we would agree when they say, you are not practicing proper mobile eticate, thats the way childish android users would carry their phone. you arnt an android person are you? hmph…if u wanna be a apple person hole it properly hold it Like this. You can also be Retro and get the antennaes with foil bunny ears like your old tv set….lol. Sorry apple no way outta this one..the iphone just can make it in the new Gen of android phones…focus more on ipad
lol…ha haaa
Pretty crap test and totally unusable results.
Essentially what you found was that HTC seems to prefer left handed(or ambidextrous actually) people.
Should we all start asserting favouritism or discrimination by HTC?
At least bring some subjectivity and consistency into your test.
What the nexus didn’t do was drop a connection when you picked up the phone. I think this is more akin to the iPhone behaviour.
You say crap test but its true every smart phone does this , and when we prove it with your crappy low resolution phones you get mad ha iphone Win!!!! you all mad and have nothing to bitch about
iphone 4 is on top #1
What thus fool doesn’t realize is that Apple problem us a complete design flaw whereby holding the phone literally shortsbthe antennaes therefore causing the dropped signal. In the case of the N1 you have to literally cover the complete antennae area so three no exposure causing a few bars to drop. These are two completely different scenarios… try to understand the real issue before you try to make some dumb observations/debates…
Boy genius isn’t is the one who found at a distance bar the iphone 4 before everyone?
Think of it
There is always a problem with signal attenuation with radio frequencies in this range.
At the higher frequencies the wavelength is in cm’s.
The closer the antenna is to ones skin on hand the more absorption there is.
All Cell phones do this some more than others by design.
I have a N1 and am happy with its signal connection in comparable to other coworkers using the same carrier on different phones. They are the same.
One thing I really like with the N1 is the active noise cancelling.
i tried same thing with my nexus one while watching this video and my n1 perfectly fine… no loss of signal….guys these tests are crap…..
I tried to do this on my N1 and was not able to make it flop. Just because your iphone sucks does not mean you should pull others in your media crap fest. Suck it up or buy Android if you want a real phone.
I couldn’t recreate this on my nexus one no matter how hard I tried. Not even cupping the very bottom much less how it was held in the video. Sorry, I tried. You need to replace your phone.
What! Are you serious? Lowest dropped to was 2 bars using left or right hand, and also tried with both hands trying to smoother my (N1). What?! Come on get real. I’ve even made and received calls with no bars showing and still with excellent quality. Also take into consideration,… nevermind the carrier broadcast strength at times. Retest with iPhone 4 added also, so we can see it’s bars drop to,… oh, let’s say,… bars NONE.
Oh I should have mentioned that my (N1), only had 3 bars to start, where I’m sitting anyway. I just know Apple is smarter than trying to pull off the move they APPEAR to be trying to pull. AND this Guy seems to have gotten mind-trapped. Poor guy.
Apple I gave you props for starting this evolution, but I’m beginning to lose respect for you. Please! Just Stop, and fix these people’s iPhone4s.
I have owned many phones in my time, including blackberrys and the nexus one. never have I had a phone that dropped calls, no matter how I held them.
NONSENSE. My N1 is 7 months old and I’ve never dropped a single call, esp because of how I HOLD it. LMAO. The only thing it’s done is put my call on hold if I smash my ear against that area (hold) on the screen.