“‘The key function on any Nokia device is its ability to make phone calls,’ the company’s official blog posting says. ‘Providing a wide range of methods and grips for people to hold their phones, without interfering with the antennae, has been an essential feature of every device Nokia has built,'” Dilger reports. “It concludes, ‘Of course, feel free to ignore all of the above because realistically, you’re free to hold your Nokia device any way you like. And you won’t suffer any signal loss. Cool, huh?'”
“Users immediately commented on the posting with links to YouTube videos showing a variety of mobile phones experiencing a lost or degraded signal when held in the user’s hand, including videos of a Nokia E71 (shown below), Nokia 6230, and Nokia 6720, as well as phones from other makers: the HTC Droid Incredible and the Google branded HTC Nexus One,” Dilger reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Hey, was the patent Nokia’s claiming Apple infringed upon by any chance titled “Death Grip?”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hoist with their own petard. Gotta love it. Not only did their impuissant little jab immediately blow up in their face, but it also goes a long way towards informing the world that the issue is not endemic to iPhone. Brilliant, Nokia. It’s no wonder that your hopelessly outclassed company is on its way straight down the shitter.
– aaaah so.
Petard?
Petard?
:a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall.
Isn’t supposed to be Picard, as in Jean Luke?
I wonder how many e71 users actually experienced this problem…
I hate that I have to be the nerdiest guy in a website about computers, but…
The correct spelling of Capt. Picard’s first name is ‘Jean-Luc’
I hate myself right now.
Nokia 2320 instructions:
http://funsizebytes.com/post/745721120/instructions-from-my-nokia-2320-which-boil-down-to
Karma is a bitch…especially the instant kind.
Re: Rex
Thanks for posting before me. Now I don’t feel quite so nerdy (kinda).
Hmm, wonder if the same lawyers will be going after Nokia as well now?
Hey Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, “Karma” is a Bitch, Ain’t it !!!!
@Rex
You are my hero!
A tempest in a tea cup.
Next?
Nokia = non sequitor
Spell check
Nokia = non sequitur
I had no problems with my iPhone 4 at all. People were asking me about the reception problem and I let them crab my phone however they want, no drop in signal. Maybe some phone has that issue but not mine.
Sorry, Nokia can keep trying, it’s so year early 2000!
On D-Day Churchill tanks fitted with Petard mortars destroyed concrete emplacements and bunkers on the Normandy beaches. The 40 pound projectile was a large shaped charge specifically designed to smash concrete roofs and walls. Range 100 to 150 yards.
The mortar had to be loaded externally at considerable risk to the crew member involved. The turret was swung 90 degrees and a door in the side of the tank opened out to allow the loader to step out and climb up to insert the projectile into the mortar barrel.
I remember it all so clearly.
Perhaps this video needs to be forwarded to the judge receiving the bogus class action suit against Apple for “iPhone 4 reception issues.”
petard is surely correct….”Hoist with your own petard”
Meaning: Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others. <the phrase finder>
And a similar linguistic connection, probably more appropriate to nokia’s philosophy (and PR)….”The French have the word ‘péter’ – to fart, which it’s hard to imagine is unrelated” (to petard) <the phrase finder>
Nokia is petarded.
God, I can’t believe no one grabbed that one before me!
You guys make laugh. Thanks for making my day.
Hoisted ON one’s own petard, not hoist WITH one’s own petard. You Americans… I don’t know!!
Thanks cubist,
I was going to correct my fellow illiterate Americans… But I slept late this morning.
Partial correction to Cubist, et al: the source of the phrase is Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4, where Hamlet says “hoist with his own petard;” he is arranging for a letter of Claudius to ‘backfire.’
well, cubist and anim8me2, having a longer break from work i’ll take a minute to say, i feel in good, no, excellent company, in being “illiterate” along with one …” William Shakespeare who used the now proverbial phrase “hoist with his own petard” in Hamlet” <wikipedia>
and from the man himself…”For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and ‘t shall go hard” <William Shakespeare>