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Nokia and RIM Respond To Apple's Antenna Claims
awyeah writes "In response to Apple's press conference, where videos of a few devices were shown losing signal bars with a tight grip, RIM and Nokia have both taken shots at Apple. RIM's co-CEOs say that Apple's claims 'appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public's understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple's difficult situation.' Meanwhile, Nokia, noting that they are pioneers in antenna design and were the first company to bring to market a phone with an internal antenna, prioritizes 'antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict.'"
I suspect all the Apple haters will be using this as "evidence" that other phones don't have problems like this, because we all know a company would never take the chance to bash its competitors (especially high-profile ones like Apple)...
Ohhhh.... the information that ATT was holding as confidential is "on the internet". Trusty source, that internet.
If I didn't have absolutely NOTHING to do, I wouldn't be here.
Consumer Reports did abbreviated tests and did not do any comprehensive tests or any significant comparison tests. They admitted it. They said they have to do further testing. Consumer reports did what they did for their own self promotion. I used to read Consumer Reports but they went to hell in a hand basket years ago.
Except this isn't a scandal. It is a relatively minor technical glitch.
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"we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict."
But you also pushed the industry towards internal antenna design. You did show the world that an internal antenna can be good enough for people to use, and additional optimizations make a modern antenna better than ones just 10 years ago. But really the internal antenna is a physical design choice that conflicts with antenna performance. Most of us like that choice, but still, inaccurate statements need to be called out.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Hello, reality calling. Nokia and RIM don't have Apple's problems, so what you're saying is that Apple has to meet regulations they do not have to meet. Can you back that up with facts? Or did you don your own tin-foil hat?
The "reality," as you like to put it, is that Nokia and RIM had the good judgment not to try what Apple did. Their phones are bigger and clunkier as a result. If Apple had succeeded, you can bet that the other manufacturers would be studying their patents for a partitioned external antenna, trying to figure out a way around them.
The other "reality," as you like to put it, is that users of all phones could get better coverage from fewer cell sites if the regulations permitted more flexibility in antenna design.
As Apple is learning, in consumer electronics you have to design for the worst case, and this particular worst case is much worse than it needs to be.