“‘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.
Hoist by or with one’s own Petard: destroyed by the same plot or device intended for another
So, THIS is Nokia’s answer to the iPhone 4?
Brilliant.
@Rex
I’m glad YOU made it so… and not me.
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@Rex
It’s good to have someone looking after us. Still, it’s interesting to get to a correct ‘Jean-Luc Picard’, which has no real connection to the article, before ‘petar’, as in
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar;
which, misspelled or not, is what Shakespeare apparently wrote. (Hamlet scribbled over his own death warrant to name someone else.)
Two cheers for nerds and pedants everywhere!
My 29.95 pay as you go Samsung phone has a big label on the top rear that says don’t cover this area with your hand because it will interfere with reception.
Go figure.
Do they really think they can beat Apple at this game? Nokia is nascent in the US nowadays. I haven’t seen one of their phones in years, literally.
I posted a comment on that blog
“I hold my nokia in the 1990’s where it belongs – oooooo burn!”
To all of you:
I have never been so happy to be part of this community as I am today with this thread – you guys rule, petards or not.
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Petard, a very stupid dog, cat or gerbil.
MDN’s use of the word “shitter” gives me wood. You make me feel so dirty.
Hate hate hate