It seems that Steve Jobs has gotten a little too defensive at the emergency conference for the iPhone 4 last Friday night. As part of their demonstration, Apple pointed out that other mobile phones also suffer from bad reception when they are held in the hand.
As part of that demonstration, they showcased the BlackBerry Bold 9700 (which is pretty much a recent phone), and demonstrated that the phone will lose a couple of bars when it is held in the hand.
While the statement is true, Apple had no right to use that to their defense.
Losing reception through touch is not a new problem for mobile phones, but there was never a case where a call was dropped because a user was “holding the phone wrong”. In fact, no mobile phone has ever completely lost a signal when it is held in a normal manner.
Apple has forgotten that problem does not lay with the inherent fact that human touch and antenna reception does not mix, they have forgotten that the issue lies in their handset design.
Other devices lose a bit of signal strength: the Apple iPhone 4 however, loses everything,
It has been seen in many devices already, especially on the internet. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC and many other devices can be made to lose reception if they are held in weird manners, turned upside down and other things, but not when they are held normally. No smart phone will shut down or stop working when they are held or operated normally. That does not apply with the Apple iPhone 4.
Mike Lazaridis is not happy that Apple is dragging the BlackBerry brand into the problem. According to the big man, “One thing is for certain, RIM’s customers don’t need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity”.
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