Apple posts video showing antenna issue on Nokia N97 mini

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"I think it's the wrong tack for Apple to take just putting their phone alongside everyone else's and saying this is an industry-wide issue. I bought my original iPhone (and will buy the iPhone 4) because it's better than everyone else's, and it's weird to see Apple apparently trying to convince me otherwise."

You miss the point that other manufacter told it was an Apple fault lol. These videos are really usefull to let users know it is quite normal. I've done this demostration live at 4 people until today, all they even old plastic phones dropped many bars gripping it a certain way. They changed their mind on iPhone4. People are stupid.

The other phones may have had signal attenuation but none appear to have been so problematic as to cause such an outcry. Apple's products aren't perfect but Steve Jobs makes such a show out of them being so very magical.

Now i don't expect them to be perfect. Ive never come across tech that is. But Apple built this house of cards and expect to remain untarnished. These problems have blown up in this manner purely because it's Apple and because of the media frenzy they built up around themselves. Only this time the meeds frenzy isn't beneficial.

If the Antennagate issue got out of hand and distorted it was because of multiple media outlets including TUAW for somehow confusing actual journalism with sensationalism....

In my opinion this is another example that proves Apple is not a classy company.

Putting up videos of other phones with this problem comes across as saying, "If we're going down, we're taking everyone else with us!"

I feel Apple should have owned their problem without calling others out. Sure they could have mentioned that others in the industry are dealing with the same issues, but it's up to them to be transparent about it.

In the end, I don't really care if the iPhone 4 has similar problems to other phones. I'm not an idiot, I am well aware that every piece of technology has it's own set of problems, what I was looking for was for Apple to acknowledge the problem, and offer a solution.

Free cases....fine, not the best solution, but a solution none the less. I would have accepted that without dragging everyone else through the mud.

Apple would be ignoring their duty to shareholders if they simply stood by while the CEO's of their competition (who clearly should know all smart phones have attenuation issues) deny that "their" phones have such issues.

Couldn't agree more. The phone sells itself; reception issues, or no reception issues. Don't use comparison tactics like that. It will come back to bite you on the ass.

"tact," not "tack."

It's a no win situation. If Apple says "nothing" then people will say they are out of touch with their customers & non-responsive.

Now they have responded. They have said it was a limitation that nearly all cell phones encounter and the only reason Apple is being pointed out for the prob is due to their high profile nature. Who the heck else gets prime time news coverage of a new gadget besides Apple... seriously? When was the last time you saw a Nokia phone on the news or a Android phone making CNN headlines.

While it's beneath Apple to show videos of competitors's phone also having the same issue, I think it's fair. There is no reason Apple should bear the burden for what is an industry wide problem.

'Course like many here, I can not replicate the problem on my iphone 4.

There are really two issues, and Apple has done a masterful job confusing the two of them, and deflecting everyone away from the real problem.

All cell phone antenna's can suffer from attenuation when held, when the hand is between the cell phone's antenna and the Cell Tower the phone is communicating with. This is what every video of other phones Apple has put up demonstrates to greater or lesser degrees, the iPhone 4 also exhibits this issue, as it is not immune to the laws of physics.

The OTHER issue with the iPhone 4, is that bridging the gap between the cellular and wifi/gps/bluetooth antenna with the hand/finger shorts the two antenna's, causing significant signal loss. You can do this on an iPhone 4 with a single finger touching the gap. NONE of the other smartphones demonstrate this, because none of them have external antenna's that can be physically shorted by the user. A single finger is not sufficient to cause attenuation be being between the phone and the broadcasting cell tower.

Apple never demonstrates this, and THIS is what the Rubber bumpers are for, to keep you from bridging the gap with your hand. The rubber bumpers do nothing to help the signal attenuation when your hand is between the cell phone's antenna and the Cell tower it's communicating with, because again, they are not immune to the laws of physics.

Apple took a problem all radio systems face, and made it WORSE with the gapped antennas that can be physically bridged, but they'll never admit to that, they'd rather wave a bunch of videos of other cell phones and shout "look over here, look over here!"