HTC Antennae Problem? No Problem Apparently...

[Jeff Campbell]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2010/12/03/htc-slams-apple-then-admits-theyre-right/' target='_blank'>http://www.insignificantthoughts.co...s-theyre-right/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Remember Antennagate? The manufactured controversy that no one I know who has an iPhone 4 was able to replicate? Where if you held a certain spot, the phone would lose all reception? Steve Jobs noted that all phones suffer from attenuation problems and showed video of multiple brands of phones failing when held the same way."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1291397502.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>And since it is happening to their own handset, the HD7, it is apparently not a big deal according to HTC, which is quite a different tune they are singing in comparison to how they reacted to the iPhone 4 situation. To top it off, HTC having their own problems certainly isn't drawing the attention in the press that the iPhone 4 problems brought is it? Wonder what Consumer Reports will say about this?</p>

[Vincent Ferrari]

Simple answer: They'll say nothing. Much like the tech press watched Microsoft roll out Windows Phone 7 with all the things missing from the first iPhone and said pretty much nothing.

It's amazing, really, what you can slip by the radars when you aren't Apple.

[Sven Johannsen]

On the other hand, what can you produce, when you are Apple, that has been available for years, and is all of a sudden, brilliant, amazing, magical.

BTW, I can make my iPhone 4 signal drop, as well as my HD7's, and Samsung Epix's, etc. Get to a shakey reception area, and put an RF attanuator (your hand) in the right place and it gets worse. Just electromagnetic theory. On the phone you can fix the power out, but you can't do a whole lot about the power in. You can mess with power per bit, by reducing the data rate, but not forever. It's a fact of consumer life, that the more bandwidth we demand, the tougher the power/bandwidth problem becomes.