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Inside Apple's Anechoic Testing Chambers
As part of Apple's press conference on Friday, they mentioned their state-of-the-art testing facilities and released a brief video showing some of their anechoic chambers. They later invited journalists on a tour of the rooms and explained some of the experimentation process. Quoting:
"There are four stages. The first is a passive test to study the form factor of the device they want to create. The second stage is what Caballero calls the 'junk in the trunk' stage. Apple puts the wireless components inside of the form factor and puts them in these chambers. The third part involves studying the device in one of these chambers but with human or dummy subjects. And the fourth part is a field test, done in vans that drive around various cities monitoring the device's signal the entire time (both with real people and with dummies). ... The most interesting of these rooms was one that Caballero called 'Stargate.' Why? Because, well, it looks like it belongs in the movie/TV series Stargate. Inside this room, there's a giant ring that a human sits on a raised chair in the center of. This chair slowly rotates around as signals are passed around the entire outer circle. This creates a 360 degree test area. I was told this room is completely safe for humans. And people typically spend 40 minutes in there at a time for testing. By comparison, devices can stay in the other anechoic chambers for up to 24 hours at a time. ... We then went into a room that contained fake heads."
The iPhone 4 doesn't have any bug, it has a symbiote!
Now THAT's funny!
Now, as much as Apple annoys me, and they do enough that I stopped using my iPhone and got an HTC desire, I do feel compelled to point something out to you folks, most of whom are not in the wireless industry.
FINALLY! an INFORMED comment.
Thank you for injecting some sanity into this otherwise ignorant and pointless hate-fest.
No, what he's saying is that slashdot is full of android fanboys who need to have something negative to say about the iPhone that appeals to more people than "it's not open" does. The fact that every phone on the planet does the exact same thing takes a back seat to promoting the One True philosophy of open source.
By posting that the iPhone 4 works just fine makes you a troll, de facto, as it lays bare the lie that is oh so dear to this crowd.
That's a load of bull. Nokia, RIM, and especially Google, get plenty of coverage on Slashdot. Just because you find positive Apple stories to be so offensive that you become blind to any other story here doesn't change that.
Did you know when Froyo came out? Did you know when Flash was released as a beta for Android? Did you know whe Google remote-killed some apps? Did you know about HP's slate? New Blackberries? The N900? Firefox on non-Apple phones? Droid Incredible? Droid X? Android phone of the month? Do you see me posting in all those stories about how Apple is better and that Google/RIM/HTC/whoever is crap?
On the plus side, at least you didn't bring up the Amiga this time!