eastbayhawk
New Member
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2010
- Messages
- 2
- Reaction score
- 0
My name is wes,
I normally don't post in forums but i found something really interesting today.
First let me explain myself; i am a semi-tech savvy individual
who has been a big PC user all my life. I grew up with friends who hated mac and so did i. After a few generations of ipods come out i picked up an 80g black ipod, i liked it but rarely used it. that was about 3 years ago, about 5 months back my p.o.s. metro phone took a dump so i decided to join at&t which my girlfriend is on and get an iphone, like she also has. I was advised by peers to wait until the "rumored" new phone comes out in july, so i did.
Fast forward to a week ago, I caught wind of the "death grip" youtube videos the night before i went to pick up.. the most expensive exciting phone ive ever bought. I was nervous ( a bit queezy ) when i arived at the at&t store and picked up my new phone. I instantly tested the "death grip" out while leaving the store and couldnt emulate what i had seen on youtube, but im smart enough to realize that i needed to get farther away fromt he at&t's magic demo reception. Later that night i indeed emulated the bar dropping hold.
What inspired me to post this is the following that i discoverd, sorry for the long winded back story but i felt it was neccesary to show im not an apple fan boy.
I was going to use a case regardless because i work in outdoor sales. Today at work after reading the apple letter about "bar display glitches" i decided to test what was happening. I used the speedtest app that displays download and upload speed to check what was happening to the iphone signal. I grabbed my coworkers iphone 3gs to do side-by-side comparison.
Keep in mind he hasnt been able to update his OS to 4.0 yet. laying them flat on a table, identical bars the iphone 4 was almost the same on download speed ( up by about 160 kb ). The upload speed was extreemly higher on the 4 then the 3gs, about 600kb. i then cupped the
bottom left corner of my iphone 4, got the signial to drop to 1 bar from 4 and the test kept freezing or reading 1-6 kb. i did the same thing with his 3gs running old software and got his phone to drop to 1 bar.. the test read about 18-25 kb everytime.
I need to bring my flip to work to capture this and uploaded it but this is EXTREEMLY interesting to me. Unless im wrong it apears that both apple and angry bloggers are off.. it seems as though the problem exsisted on older iphones with previous software and also that the problem is not just visual, it does affect connection speed on any iphones.
The real question to me then is; If this problem exsisted before why werent people up in arms when previous models were droping calls. Unless they were chalking to at&ts network, it does seem that the iphone 4 points a big red arrow at the flaw that exsisted because you can see the antenna and the exposed nature of it seems to make it more sensitive to this flaw.
If anyone has a friend with iphone that still has pre- IOS 4.0 software test this out.
I normally don't post in forums but i found something really interesting today.
First let me explain myself; i am a semi-tech savvy individual
who has been a big PC user all my life. I grew up with friends who hated mac and so did i. After a few generations of ipods come out i picked up an 80g black ipod, i liked it but rarely used it. that was about 3 years ago, about 5 months back my p.o.s. metro phone took a dump so i decided to join at&t which my girlfriend is on and get an iphone, like she also has. I was advised by peers to wait until the "rumored" new phone comes out in july, so i did.
Fast forward to a week ago, I caught wind of the "death grip" youtube videos the night before i went to pick up.. the most expensive exciting phone ive ever bought. I was nervous ( a bit queezy ) when i arived at the at&t store and picked up my new phone. I instantly tested the "death grip" out while leaving the store and couldnt emulate what i had seen on youtube, but im smart enough to realize that i needed to get farther away fromt he at&t's magic demo reception. Later that night i indeed emulated the bar dropping hold.
What inspired me to post this is the following that i discoverd, sorry for the long winded back story but i felt it was neccesary to show im not an apple fan boy.
I was going to use a case regardless because i work in outdoor sales. Today at work after reading the apple letter about "bar display glitches" i decided to test what was happening. I used the speedtest app that displays download and upload speed to check what was happening to the iphone signal. I grabbed my coworkers iphone 3gs to do side-by-side comparison.
Keep in mind he hasnt been able to update his OS to 4.0 yet. laying them flat on a table, identical bars the iphone 4 was almost the same on download speed ( up by about 160 kb ). The upload speed was extreemly higher on the 4 then the 3gs, about 600kb. i then cupped the
bottom left corner of my iphone 4, got the signial to drop to 1 bar from 4 and the test kept freezing or reading 1-6 kb. i did the same thing with his 3gs running old software and got his phone to drop to 1 bar.. the test read about 18-25 kb everytime.
I need to bring my flip to work to capture this and uploaded it but this is EXTREEMLY interesting to me. Unless im wrong it apears that both apple and angry bloggers are off.. it seems as though the problem exsisted on older iphones with previous software and also that the problem is not just visual, it does affect connection speed on any iphones.
The real question to me then is; If this problem exsisted before why werent people up in arms when previous models were droping calls. Unless they were chalking to at&ts network, it does seem that the iphone 4 points a big red arrow at the flaw that exsisted because you can see the antenna and the exposed nature of it seems to make it more sensitive to this flaw.
If anyone has a friend with iphone that still has pre- IOS 4.0 software test this out.
Last edited:
