Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors

adeelarshad82 writes "Given Steve Jobs' recent claims about 'Death Grip' being a common problem among smart phones, PCMag tested out six major iPhone competitors to see how they would react to the grip. The test included Motorola Droid X, T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, Droid Incredible by HTC, BlackBerry Bold 9650, and the Samsung Captivate. The signal strength was measured in dBm, which typically ranges between -50 to -110 dBm (numbers closer to zero show better signal). Interestingly, the test results video showed mixed results. T-Mobile myTouch 3G and Samsung Captivate showed drastic changes, dropping down to -89 and -97 dBm respectively. On the other hand, while the signal strength dropped for HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X and Blackberry Bold, it wasn't as severe. Results of testing showed that not all phones reacted the same way to the typical death grip and required variations of it to bring about results."

Comments

Re:What the!?

[ArsonSmith]

It's not a question of where he grips it. It's a simple question of attenuation ratios.

Re:What does this mean:

[phoenixwade]

A phone in the hand has the DBm of two in the bush. iPhone there for iAm.

None of the phones cited were designed to be stuck in your bush.

Re:How many of them have bare metal antennas?

[nine-times]

Well there are more problems than those two. There's:

• An apparent design flaw that makes the phone lose reception under certain circumstances
• The fact that all cell phones can lose reception due to hand placement, which varies by design and how you hold the phone
• The myriad of Apple haters who will jump on any possible angle to talk about how evil Apple is, how crappy Apple products are, how superior Apple's competitors are, how the only reason to buy Apple stuff is if you're a retarded hipster that drank the kool-aid.
• The massive number of whiney-bitch Apple customers who get upset that their Apple device is capable of being scratched, does not have a battery with infinite capacity, does not grant super-powers, and does not have [insert illogical feature here].
• The Apple faithful who would not say a single bad thing about their iPhone under any circumstances. If iPhones started exploding in people's hands, these people would say, "Well I'm actually glad it's doing that. It's saving me the trouble of having to cut my hand off later in preparation for the new Apple's new bionic iHand. I heard a rumor Apple would be releasing bionic prostheses next fall."

As someone sitting on the sidelines, I don't know how to sort it all out. How much of this problem is caused by the apparent design flaw? No point in answering that question-- I won't trust you.

Re:What the!?

[SETIGuy]

All the iPhones on the planet don't stop working when Apple releases a new one.

You'd never know from the users. I'm tiling my bathroom with 3g's.

Re:If everyone jumped off a bridge...

[Em Ellel]

Reading omprehension fail! Did I say no other phone drops bars AT ALL?

Only iphone loses signal so much as to drop calls.

Go on - try spinning it again.

This is absolute crap argument, death grip does not cause iPhone to drop calls, it is fully capable of dropping calls without it.