Apple, not content to merely whine that they are not alone in the death-grip-signal-attenuation circle of hell, has produced a video clip of the Droid X losing reception when held in a certain fashion.
Of course, there was no bias whatsoever in the creation of the video, right? Do us a favor, if you have a Droid X, please complete the same test and report in the comments what happened. In Apple’s defense, my iPhone 3G (I’m old school) seems rather unflappable to the problem.
If you want to steam at Apple for self proclaiming revolutionary status, and then resorting to cheap school-yard “but they did it to” tactics when they flub, watch on.
You can see all of Apple’s PR on the topic here.
My Droid X remained at the full 4 bars. Nice try Apple.
They did the same videos for a Sumsung and and HTC phone, but I am not able to reproduce it. I don’t want to accuse anyone of anything, but the behavior that is appearing looks similar to when a cell phone jammer is enabled near a phone.
These other phones may drop signal bars, but none of them drop calls. Especially not at the rate iPhones do and especially iPhone4. There’s a test of calling on a Samsung Galaxy and iPhone4 with the Death Grip applied where they are getting full signals and Galaxy holds the call, while iPwn’d4 drops it. Then they took them to the lowest signal reception in the house for both of them and with iP4 dropping the call without death grip and Galaxy not with 1 bar or less. Then they apply the Death Grip and again iP4 drops it while Galaxy holds the call with no bars showing! haha… CrApple R Spoiled Sportz with their crippled cheap phone with cheap last gen radios! xD
No One I Know with a DROID X has dropped a call holding it…. That WAY! lol…
Apple is going to mess up having the largest Electronics Corporation on the Planet. They Apple look like cheap aborigines sporting pea shooters in technology fight. Samsung also supplies 50% of the cost of iPhone4 parts for them and no other Fabrication Plants are capable of making A4 SoC for them. Piss them off and you may end up with half a phone that only looks good without the parts that make work! haha…..
Was unable to duplicate on the Droid X…nice try apple!
Yeah… Well I’m rubber you’re glue!
The problem for the iPhone is the ease with which the signal can be attenuated. It’s way too easy.
It is only a phone, so what the big deal be it an iPhone or droid x.
For those whining about drop calls, you guys must be making million dollars deals every minute. But then if you are your assistant will be answering the phone and not you.
Be real and get a life, use the product that suits you best.
Btw Apple is just demonstrating that all mobile phones have the same problem.
And no one is forcing you to use an iPhone.
Can someone post actual empirical data on the number of drop calls from the iPhone and other competing phones on any network? I’d like to see real facts not some blog post without proof.
If you can’t get your particular Droid X phone to drop signal the same way that others can, it doesn’t mean the Droid X doesn’t have an issue. It’s just like how some people with the iPhone 4 can get the signal to drop and others can’t. Radio waves are not even everywhere so depending on how strong the radio signal waves are, you may or may not be able to get the signal to drop several bars using particular hand grip.
My 3GS loses bars if you hold it tightly on both sides. Sometimes one bar, other times two. Just tried it out on a mates N97 and the same thing – hold it tightly top and bottom, bars disappear.
I am not an apple fan girl. I might love my iPhone but I’m a Windows user who would never buy a Mac. I honestly think this is something that probably happens on all but the most basic / robustly built phones. It is just (possibly considerably) more pronounced on the iPhone 4.
I also know several people who own an iPhone 4, and whilst like me they can reproduce the issue, it is not so severe that calls drop… oh and they are all left-handed.
Don’t try to confuse us.
Sure the Droid X (like other smart phones) under SOME circumstances can be shown to drop signal. But that’s no reason to blame the manufacturer.
We reserve our hatred and indignation exclusively for Apple who represents all that is evil and wrong in the world. Anyone that doesn’t agree is a technically ignorant, Koolaide-drinking fanboi.
It is not the fact that the iPhone losses bars like all the other phones that they are showing but that apple is using the argument that it is ok because other smart phones are as bad as us. What happened to the apple that was just trying to create the best product possible no matter what anyone was doing. That Is where the iPhone came from in the first place. The market had no answer for it for 3 years and some would say even yet have an answer. Why is apple resting on it’s laurels
‘bars’ are not data points. in order to attempt to duplicate the test you’d need a phone of the exact same power and sensitivity apple used, a signal source (cell tower) of the exact power and sensitivity, and be positioned exactly the same distance as the phone in the test. oh yeah, and your body would have to be the exact same impedance as the one in the test.
good luck with that, y’heah!
/guy (kg5vt)
Yeah…. and Steve iHitler Jobs passing by in the background in the video casting his Evil Thought Police effects on the phone. Like in CrApple’s retarded video! ^_*
HA!!! cheaters~! now, why would you hold your Droid X like that? that hump is there so you don’t have to cover the antenna.. Fold your index finger and let’s see if it still eats the bars…
Nope. Even strangled it with both hands and the bars did not change. I’m a mac guy and I am really starting to hate them.
Baloney! I gained a bar!