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The biggest miss that I remember that isn't on this list is the iPhone 4 antenna that wrapped around the device. If the user's hand got between the two sides, i

by noer 7y ago

The biggest miss that I remember that isn't on this list is the iPhone 4 antenna that wrapped around the device. If the user's hand got between the two sides, it would lose connectivity. Then Apple started selling those "bumpers" to keep the antenna working.

jccc 7y ago
They didn't start selling them to the troubled iPhone users. They gave them away until the end of September that year: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/how-to-get-your-free-iphone-bumper/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/how-to-get-your-fr...
jccc 7y ago
Also worth noting that they demonstrated every other phone at the time could be held in all kinds of similarly ordinary ways that led to the same or worse attenuation. But the iPhone 4 had that conspicuous pair of thin black lines on the metal frame that people could see and touch to trigger the attenuation.
m_st 7y ago
iPhone 4 owner here. That was never an actual issue in daily use. You really had to force it at exactly the right spot to produce this problem. Also other phones from that time had the same issue when they were squeezed like that. So yes I got that free bumper, but never used it anyway.
sjwright 7y ago
Antennagate was 90% myth. Bridging the two steel pieces with normal skin contact wasn't a significant factor in signal degradation. If it was, the problem would have persisted with the iPhone 4S, but it didn't. In fact the 4S was notable for having exceptionally good reception despite using the same exposed steel band arrangement—albeit with two cellular antenna segments instead of one. (Major Australian telco Telstra assigned the iPhone 4S their "blue tick" mark for phones suitable for regional/rural Australian customers. This rating was only given small number of phones.)
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The biggest miss that I remember that isn't on this list is the iPhone 4 antenna that wrapped around the device. If the user's hand got between the two sides, i

by noer 7y ago

jccc 7y ago
They didn't start selling them to the troubled iPhone users. They gave them away until the end of September that year: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/how-to-get-your-free-iphone-bumper/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/how-to-get-your-fr...
jccc 7y ago
Also worth noting that they demonstrated every other phone at the time could be held in all kinds of similarly ordinary ways that led to the same or worse attenuation. But the iPhone 4 had that conspicuous pair of thin black lines on the metal frame that people could see and touch to trigger the attenuation.
m_st 7y ago
iPhone 4 owner here. That was never an actual issue in daily use. You really had to force it at exactly the right spot to produce this problem. Also other phones from that time had the same issue when they were squeezed like that. So yes I got that free bumper, but never used it anyway.
sjwright 7y ago
Antennagate was 90% myth. Bridging the two steel pieces with normal skin contact wasn't a significant factor in signal degradation. If it was, the problem would have persisted with the iPhone 4S, but it didn't. In fact the 4S was notable for having exceptionally good reception despite using the same exposed steel band arrangement—albeit with two cellular antenna segments instead of one. (Major Australian telco Telstra assigned the iPhone 4S their "blue tick" mark for phones suitable for regional/rural Australian customers. This rating was only given small number of phones.)
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