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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."
OH! Is "Incredible" a type of phone?
it's under construction
Took the words out of my mouth! __ Sent from my mobile device
They're not talking about the processes. Those are just means to an end, and they're a necessary ordeal.
The magic is a magnetic power connector that you don't realize until it pops off when it needs to.
Or the little sleep light which simply doesn't exist until it needs to (like the camera).
With the iPad, it's not in what it does - tablets have been around for ages -, but *how* it does it.
The fact that scrolling to the edges rebounds in just the right way to make it completely organic. The fact that the machined boxes are just incredibly tactile. That, specifically on the iPad, the body fades away to leave you with a fluid and organic (yadda yadda ad keywords) experience that's more engaging than any other mobile device out there and, in a (very real) Arthur C. Clarke sense, "magical", i.e. indistinguishable from magic.
Yeah, I'm a fanboy, and no, the iPad is gonna need a few more crucial features - mainly peripherals - until it becomes an eligible investment here, but DAMN if they don't hit my nerve as a guy who just wants to *use* his stuff every once in a while.