“New in the group is the Nokia N97 mini, which Apple claims can drop in signal strength from seven bars to two when held in the same grip that kills an iPhone’s reception,” Electronista reports. “Nokia has previously tried to refute Apple’s position that the iPhone 4 is simply suffering from an industry-wide flaw.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Any other Apple roadkill want to flap their yaps? Hello?
Apple’s “Smartphone Antenna Performance” page states, “In our tests, the Nokia N97 mini dropped from 7 bars to 2 bars when held in a way that attenuated the signal.”
See the photographic and video proof here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple, featuring a Nokia device on a “smartphone” page is cruel. Everyone knows Nokia can’t make smartphones.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
can’t compare with IP4..n97 or either n97mini both crap series!
Bought a Nokia phone at ‘Aldi’ not so long ago $35.00AU. Bargain!
Hey i am so confused right now, whether to get an apple iphone 16 gb or n96? I like the iphone because of its user interface, bright,big screen, touchscreen, cover flow (ipod), and i just recently found out that we can add applications such as books
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Nokia just *had* to inject themselves into Apple’s conversation re: phone antennae… they just couldn’t keep thier damn mouths shut about it.
Well, this is what they get.
MaWo: glass. As in, ‘houses’.
I’d rather see apple say what they do good instead of pointing out that others do bad also. You’ve lost the fight at that point. Stick with the positive.
@me
My sentiments exactly. Why put up a web pages showing how bad everyone else is in the same area? Bashing the competition is something I was taught was a desperate move for a salesman when he didn’t have a good product.
Apple should have produced a smartphone that was the FIRST smartphone to avoid attenuation or minimize it considerably to get ahead of the pack.
The Apple web page and this video comparison is a strong step in the wrong direction for Apple and shows a defensive posture that is not attractive to me. I hope they don’t keep this up.
@BiteanAAPL
The only way to make a phone without attenuation is to go back to “external” antennas.
But since the public shuns external antennas, the industry went to internal antennas with the caveat being a worse signal and users hands interfering with it.
No one can make an “internal” antenna that is not affected by your hand. The laws of physics cannot be altered.
Myself wishes identical phones would be made with external antennas so users could pick and choose. All phones I see with internal antennas have a worse signal than my ancient LG VX7000.
So I stick with what works.
@Pau
You’re an idiot sir. That is what happens. I saw the Samsung and Nokia phones had low battery levels. I happen to own a Nokia and a Blackberry. It NEVER happens to me, no matter how I hold the phone when the battery level is adequate. When the levels are low, it occurs as it states in the user manual. I’m not barking, I’m a communication engineer and believe I have at least limited knowledge in signal propagation and reception.