Following the mudslinging about the iPhone 4 antenna problems, Spencer Webb, who runs AntennaSys, a company that has designed quad-band transceivers for AT&T has waded into the argument.
He has stated that the majority of mobile phone companies have transitioned to locating their antennae at the bottom of phones.
This has been in order to move radio wave emissions away from the head, which the FCC has been quite demanding about with SAR standards.
According to Webber when phones are tested carriers might include the head, but never accounts for the presence of the person’s hand. Thus, creating the antenna problem, but most importantly the phone will test perfectly, and therefore may not have been be picked up by Apple.
Spencer himself has decided to buy a iPhone knowing full well about this potential limitation, and concluded on the that note “sometimes an antenna that’s not great, but good enough, is good enough.”
And we now know what Apple thinks out this……
So there you have it – new phones antennas seem like they don’t perform quite as well as the 80’s vertical antennas.
Via AntennaSys
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5 thoughts on “iPhone 4 Antenna Woes Explained By A Man In The Know”
je suis sur le point d’acheter le nouveau Iphone4,mais ,avec le problème d’antenne qui se passe je me suis découragé.Alors,j’attends ce que Apple nous dira.
I’m about to buy the new Iphone4, but the problem with the antenna goes I’m discouraged. So, I expect that Apple will say.
Wow! I remember those 80’s antenna…they used to stick ot out the pocket. I’ve always found the vertical antenna to be poor but that could also be the reception quality in them days were poor.
They were like offensive weapons.
Spencer Webb is talking nonsense.
It only happens if you hold it in your left hand and if you have the Apple bumper attached the problem is no longer present.
So unless he is saying that left handed people have a genetically different left hand that somehow shields the antenna and that this genetic abnormality is somehow negated when you add the Apple bumper, he’s clearly talking out of his backside.
It’s a small problem that is easily fixed that affects a small percentage of the owners but because there are loads of Apple haters, companies who want to see Apple fall, people who can’t afford the products and teenage Linux users who have never even tried an Apple product, these pieces of strung out low level news will be echoed as much as possible over the web.
Will it affect sales, no, of course it won’t. And next year they’ll release a new version that will outsell the previous.
I had a go on my friends new iPhone and if you place your thumb over the volume and locking buttons – the phone will gradually lose signal until it lose’s network. It only effects it, if it is being held in your left hand and not your right – thumb dependent. If any of you have one, try and see what happens. I don’t think it could be solved with software !?! Seems to not like having all the buttons covered – thought if you hold slightly differently there is no problem – but it is a problem and most people hold the phone in this way with your thumb over the volume buttons.
Apple have dropped a clanger.