Apple squeezes the reception out of Nokia N97 mini

21 July, 2010
Apple seem keen to prove other smartphones have the same reception attenuation as the iPhone 4. And they are getting back with a video of Nokia N97 mini that suffers from the same grip of death as the iPhone...

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  • ALonZo
  • Mfx
  • 21 Jul 2010

Of course Nokia will sell billions of handsets. Thats because they have billions of different phones out there! Ha ha Ok that was a joke, they dont have a billion phones! But Nokia have more phones than hot dinners and many what you call "Happy Meal" prices, meaning so cheap even a pensioner can buy it without thinking about it!

Making dumb comparisons aint a debate. 2 different handsets on sale now, still selling like hot cakes. Nuff said.

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    • Anonymous
    • JCW
    • 21 Jul 2010

    steve is pathetic for trying to blame other companies with signal issues. The Iphone has the antenna on the outside this IS the major flaw with the complete piece of rubbish. He should be fired and other companies should sue Apple to the extreme.

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      • any name
      • PS6
      • 21 Jul 2010

      Please stop apple..you make sick..to prove yours theory....just admit your mistake...we dont need any prooffffffffffffffff...

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        • usuxxx
        • ty9
        • 21 Jul 2010

        lol apple become ifail.....admit its jobs..
        whos hold the n97 mini or samsung or BB like this?
        smart people dont need to explain how to hold their phone...
        they just fit in hand
        shame on u steve....maybe ur the 1 who need education how to hold ur phone before u roll it out to us

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          • bob
          • nxG
          • 21 Jul 2010

          i got a 97 mini, hold it with both hands at the ends when surfing so can use the keyboard an i never lost any signal. jobs needs to grow up an realise his stuff is useless and behind in everything to the others same as his stupid walkmans and computers.

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            • Bruce
            • tVp
            • 21 Jul 2010

            Steve jobs is disappointing; He'd better accept the Iphone4 problem and dont blame other phones in that stupid and childish way.
            pity steve !

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              • ALonZo
              • Mfx
              • 21 Jul 2010

              I admit picking on other brands aint the right thing to do, I mean address your own customers in the best way Apple. But if you are gonna compare another handset, at least choose a decent one! The Nokia n97? Come on Apple, I could have closed my eyes and touched the screen with my finger and still chosen a better phone!! ha ha

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                • Steve Jobless
                • i}a
                • 21 Jul 2010

                The funny thing is that they actually have to try to make other phones lose signal.. but ppl using apple phone are complaining that they messed up and they are telling them hold it differently?? are you kidding me.. get that rod out of your butt, it's clearly affecting your judgement...

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                  • Jonathan
                  • tVv
                  • 21 Jul 2010

                  What is this????? Apple is still like the old days ( in the 80s ) they think they are the best others dont. When their products have a faulty they will pin point on others. Still don't want to learn from history when they are beaten by the IBM. Apple your Iphone 4 is the lattest phone, why you still want to campare to Nokia N97 mini which already in the market for nearly 1 year. What the hell.........

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                    • Steve Jobless
                    • i}a
                    • 21 Jul 2010

                    The more apple bashes on other phone the worse it'll get for them...

                    Just accept that you fu cked up and go on with your life.. why are they trying to drag other companys into the water with.. I used to like apple.. now I've lost alot of respect for them...

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                      • RR
                      • 3Ta
                      • 21 Jul 2010

                      It can't be that the nokia bars drops. Nokia is the best manufacturer of mobile phones. Can't those idiots at Apple see that nokia doesn't lose all the bars in such a short time? There is a huge difference in losing all bars in a short time vs losing a few bars in a long time. Why don't they show the video for 1 more minute?? I'm sure the nokia will regain full strenght after a minute. If you hold the phone where the internal antenna is placed, it will take a while to get the bars back. That's why it's called a booster antenna.

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                        • THE TRUTH
                        • 2TH
                        • 21 Jul 2010

                        i dont know if you people know about this....but...nokia phones show 3.5g network signals separately when they are on 3.5g mode....so evn if the signal drops to 0 as shown it will switch back to gsm mode with full signals........!!!!...

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                          • Arun Valoor
                          • ytR
                          • 21 Jul 2010

                          This is absolutely a rubbish claim. I have a Nokia N97 and there is no problem with the reception (nothing even close). We all know that Apple is upset about the Antennagate issue but this no way to prove that you're right...At this rate the company's gonna spoil its hard earned reputation (& goodwill)

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                            • Craig C
                            • sG%
                            • 21 Jul 2010

                            I just tried my wife's N97 mini, I only had 5 bars of the 7 to begin with indoors.... put my hand around it exactly the same way after about 15 - 20 seconds it dropped to 1 bar then 2 bars then 1 bar...

                            While holding it tightly in the video I then made a call from the touch screen, and it rang the other phone answered worked perfectly fine, the ODD thing was that as soon as it started making the call it went from 1/2 bars up to 3 bars and stayed there until I hung up and then it went back to 1 / 2 bars not sure which one it really is...

                            But 1. N97 mini makes phone calls
                            2. N97 mini boosts the power to the transiever to make the call

                            3. unlike the IPhone, you can make phone calls while holding it the way shown in the Video.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • sF{
                              • 21 Jul 2010

                              Apple's just being ridiculous. I mean when other makers say they're researched placement of antennas, it means they know where to put their antennas, taking into account how a user would hold the phone. Why is Apple doing a "if you hold your phone this way" experiment is beyond me. I mean just admit the engineers or probably Jobs himself messed up on the design and be done with it. To make it worse, they don't admit its a design or hardware fault, yet they're giving free "hardware" to fix a problem which can't be fixed with a software update. How is that not a problem with the design? Besides, you don't see Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, RIM or HTC going around giving away free cases and colour stickers to fix a phone problem. And to really make Apple look even dumb, the next batch of Iphones will miraculously have "redesigned", marketed as an "update" with the antenna hidden from view, in this case, touch. Just admit they messed up and move on. Why keep this in the news is beyond me and what makes this worst is, its bad enough declaring war on 1 or 2 competitors. Its plain stupidity doing so against everyone else.

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                                • zarko makedonija
                                • 0FR
                                • 21 Jul 2010

                                Apple make just one model, and other companies like Nokia and Samsung have a 400+ models and Apple didn't manage it to make it ok... ist's a pity...

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • M3s
                                  • 21 Jul 2010

                                  bye bye apple and about time, hate iphone people

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                                    • MO
                                    • 32P
                                    • 21 Jul 2010

                                    HEY APPLE, FIX UR DAMN IPHONE4'S, dont give a crap what you come up with accusing other phonemakers...I JUST SIMPLY AINT BOTHERED, fIX THE CRAP, put it this way, id rather go with a NOKIA with the same signal problems than have an iphone 4, why? well i am 100% sure Nokia or whiever it is will definitely do something about it and not go on like kids as steve jobs is doing that job fine...what a muppet!
                                    I am a apple 3g user never had problems wid it, had it over a year now,

                                    ...time to say goodbye apple?...

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                                      • zarko
                                      • 0FR
                                      • 21 Jul 2010

                                      it's shame that iphone 4 is phone that Steeve Jobs made it without testing the most imporhant issue the reception of signal :)

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                                        • Andrew
                                        • 0Bj
                                        • 21 Jul 2010

                                        Showing that other brands has similar problem, but not the same, doesn't solve Apple's problem. Apple is dirty company!