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“The company’s antenna information page, which previously showed various test videos of rival smartphones – like the HTC Droid Eris, Motorola DROID X, Nokia N97 mini and BlackBerry Bold 9700 – displaying attenuation issues when held in certain ways, has been pared down to just a brief blurb on the Apple antenna design and test labs,” Davies reports. “No videos of devices with dropping signal meters, no reports on where to hold smartphones in order to best undermine their wireless performance.”
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s updated antenna page is here.
Davies reports, “Instead there are just a few paragraphs on the testing process and how Apple engineers took the iPhone 4 out into the wild.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Those videos did their job already. No need to continue making them available. Apple’s point has been made loud and clear.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
@Rob
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There was ZERO passion in @Eric Speilberg’s comments. Just the snark of a troll who isn’t even a registered member of this site.
MDN, would you PLEASE block unregistered users already?!? Some of us would like to have some intelligent discourse on this site.
Has it occurred to y’all that it was likely a “tall glass of shut the hell up?”
Apple put up videos of the phones from manufactures who ran ads about how their phones didn’t suffer from “gorilla grip”, which was a lie (as was clearly demonstrated).
After those manufactures withdrew the anti iPhone ads, apple withdrew the videos.
The moral of the story? Don’t get in a pissing match with Jobs, just ask Michael Dell (or Ballmer ftm.) as you will loose.
Your write, Rob. It dosnt madder how you spel or rite. Its the content that cownts cøse it al sounds the saym from a screan reeder, Peeple feil the knead to expres there opinyun and that shud be gud enuf.
If your pashunate, thats wats importent.
@YCFS
Thnx. U R D Man!
Apple made their point. They didnt want to have to take it to that level to begin with but the anti-Apple zealots in the tech-media and the crapdroid retard trolls overplayed it.
Everything has turned out exactly as we all know it would. The iPhone 4 rocks and everyone trying to dog it can now suck it.
Stupud trowls!
I really hope T-Mobile USA is getting the iPhone this fall!
Wow. All the misspelt comments adequately proved Rob’s point. They were all super easy to understand. Spelling ANd grammar truly don’t matter after all here.
ALL those other phones have antennas better than the one wrapped around the poorly designed iP4 – that’s the reason they took down the comparisons.
The more that iP4 owners watch the comparisons the more we realize we’ve got the one with the problem.
@ Moo latté
As one who posted an ironically illiterate comment in jest I have to insist that incorrect spelling and grammar distract from content, and poison the writer’s message. How can you take anyone’s comment seriously if they cannot manage the simplest basics of the language, unless of course the post is a joke?
The problem with the antenna seems to be a USA only problem and cannot be replicated in f.i. Australia on any of their networks. It only shows a slight drop in lines when in a really bad reception area and then no call is lost.
So, can one conclude it really is an ATT problem and only an issue because the US has such bad telecoms?
Apple is right to pull the list as it obviously is no longer an issue.
Good call, Apple; those never should’ve been there. Whether or not they’re losing to you, don’t put the competition’s stuff up on your site.