There have been lots of news stories and blogs about reception problems and signal strength with the new Apple iPhone 4. Read this Mashable article or this Engadget story for example. There's even a video clip showing the problem and it looks serious. I was out with my iPhone when I first read this, so I immediately tried it. All the bars were showing and even using two hands to completely cover the phone, I couldn't get the signal strength indicator to change at all. The signal must have been too strong. I tried it later at home where the signal is weaker and managed to get the signal strength bars to drop by wrapping my hand around the base of the phone. It wasn't a natural way to hold it though. I got my BlackBerry out and wrapped my hand around it and the bars dropped as the signal was blocked just the same. So this isn't an iPhone problem, it's a mobile phone problem. Try it with some other mobiles and you'll probably see a similar effect.
Whether this is worse with the iPhone 4 than with other mobiles is hard to say without testing them all. And really you've got to hold the phone to your ear rather than to a video camera because your grip is different.
Apparently most, if not all mobile phones have the antenna in the bottom of the phone because it is then as far away from your brain as possible when making a call. Of course, your hand is at the bottom of the phone and not the top, which makes it bad for reception, but putting the antenna in the top would fry your brain.
Friday, 25 June 2010
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