Antennagate ain't over, Samsung and Motorola respond, too

19 July, 2010
After RIM, HTC and Nokia, it was about time for the respond of the rest of the companies affected by Apple's statements last Friday. Well, here is what Samsung and Motorola have to say about the whole shebang...

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  • Sohaib
  • wYR
  • 20 Jul 2010

I don't get it..how can the engineers at Apple be so dumb to ignore this very simple fact, when you touch an antenna panel, you are actually providing it an "earth" source, thus nullifying its gain..That's a simple thing. Apple tried to do a good thing by increasing the receive area of it's antenna but then they should have thought about coating the metal body with some insulator!
Currently, denying at Steve Job's end is so pathetic. There's a problem, accept it & rectify it. Cell phones are here for like atleast 20 years, This is the very first time am hearing about "how to hold your cell phone right".
Am an Apple user myself and i surely don't want to be told how to hold my cell phone. The current issue is a serious one and there's no denying to it, so Apple..Solve it!

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    • roamer7485
    • vpb
    • 20 Jul 2010

    5800, 20 Jul 2010Now i feel why the wifi wasn't working when steve jobs reve... moreyeah coz he was holding it incorrectly. Iphone should be renamed DucttaPhone ;-) lol

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      • 9x0
      • 20 Jul 2010

      roamer7485, 20 Jul 2010lame excuse! If i hold a phone, i don't want to be told how... moreoh men!!!! great comment..made me laugh aswell..

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        • PhoneGuy
        • P@T
        • 20 Jul 2010

        I think Apple new design has lots of potential, think about it "dropped phone calls on demand"!

        Just touch that magic spot and that annoying caller (Mother-in-Law, wife, etc) just disappears like magic. Technically you did not hang up the phone and this reception problems affects everybody!!

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          • 5800
          • 2SP
          • 20 Jul 2010

          Now i feel why the wifi wasn't working when steve jobs reveled the iphone at the mcw ...it was due to an antenna issue (i guess) ...apple should admit their flaw in their antenna design and stop talking about other phone makers and their antenna design

            • r
            • roamer7485
            • vpb
            • 20 Jul 2010

            iphone4fan, 20 Jul 2010Apple owned all these phones in that video! Apple fans a... morelame excuse! If i hold a phone, i don't want to be told how to hold it. Apple is indeed a pioneer of many things like phone bumper or ducttaphone or a potential best seller manual entitled "How to hold your iphone correctly"...lol

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              • deep space bar
              • q}@
              • 20 Jul 2010

              Anonymous, 20 Jul 2010No really, it wasn't doing anything, just eating donuts of ... moreLTE nokia handsets in the future for sure

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                • 9x0
                • 20 Jul 2010

                iphone4fan, 20 Jul 2010That photo of the iphone4 is incorrect. There is no outsid... moreso what your smart mind is saying is that it is right for a certain company(apple) to tell thier customers(thier lifeblood) on how to "hold" thier mobile phones???

                what your very smart mind is saying is that you pay hundreds of dollars eventually thousands of dollars for your iphone4, then you will not have the "luxury" of holding it just like any other "BASIC MOBILE PHONE"

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                  • A7med
                  • Nyj
                  • 20 Jul 2010

                  Apple must attend Samsung's free training on "How to make smartphone 101". ;-)

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                    • Anonymous
                    • p@j
                    • 20 Jul 2010

                    iphone4fan, 20 Jul 2010NO where in the Apple video did i see the iphone4 have sign... moreI can see that your brain is burned by the stupid Apple antenna. Keep your iPhone4, we'll keep calling with ours.

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                      • iphone4fan
                      • u{a
                      • 20 Jul 2010

                      Apple owned all these phones in that video!

                      Apple fans are just loving it.
                      As we just hold it right and enjoy our phone having no signal issue.

                      this is classic, never fake a signal story . Apple will burn back hard

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                        • iphone4fan
                        • u{a
                        • 20 Jul 2010

                        talibono1, 20 Jul 2010iphone4 don't know how to make a built-in anthena phone.. t... moreNO where in the Apple video did i see the iphone4 have signal problem.
                        I've watched it a few times.

                        If you saw it, i saw other phones having issues, And laughed

                        Apple Burned them

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                          • talibono1
                          • PSv
                          • 20 Jul 2010

                          iphone4fan, 20 Jul 2010That photo of the iphone4 is incorrect. There is no outsid... moreiphone4 don't know how to make a built-in anthena phone.. that's the right design for iphone4 so the poor reception will be solve!! hahaha!

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                            • iphone4fan
                            • u{a
                            • 20 Jul 2010

                            That photo of the iphone4 is incorrect.
                            There is no outside antenna.

                            holding it properly there will never be a need for one.
                            Basically avoid touching that line and its perfect and all this total rubbish

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                              • Anonymous
                              • p@Y
                              • 20 Jul 2010

                              deep space bar, 20 Jul 2010motorola wasn't doing anything with it so nokia bought i... moreNo really, it wasn't doing anything, just eating donuts of America, that's all lol,
                              wot makes you think nokia pay billions for it to put under arm Motorola!

                                • r
                                • roamer7485
                                • vpb
                                • 20 Jul 2010

                                Steve and friends must attend Samsung's free training on "How to make smartphone 101". ;-)

                                  • d
                                  • deep space bar
                                  • q}@
                                  • 20 Jul 2010

                                  Anonymous, 20 Jul 2010And oh, that's quick answer, use nokia or licensed phone to... moremotorola

                                  wasn't doing anything with it so nokia bought it

                                  atleast something new will and should come out of that purchase

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • p@Y
                                    • 20 Jul 2010

                                    Anonymous, 20 Jul 2010The network equipment is bought by Telcos, so what are they... moreAnd oh, that's quick answer, use nokia or licensed phone to be able to use nokia network, the network nokia just have bay from Motorola!

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                                      • deep space bar
                                      • q}@
                                      • 20 Jul 2010

                                      if you guys really paid attention you would see how at&t and apple screwed everyone up that is on at&t

                                      199 - 299$ for the iphone 4

                                      little that apple told people and same with at&t
                                      is the 3year contract you get with the iphone 4

                                      if you get rid of the current phone which most have done

                                      you are still stuck with the 3 year contract with no phone

                                      and if you cancel the contract you have to pay it out or pay full for another phone

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • p@Y
                                        • 20 Jul 2010

                                        Anonymous, 20 Jul 2010The network equipment is bought by Telcos, so what are they... moreEverything is possible, but in this case Nokia has it's own development agenda and it's own property, and nokia can not let apple unlicensed product to connect and abuse it's network and that's it, pay ticket to watch movie!