Over at Daring Fireball, they’ve been vigorously defending Apple’s response to the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issues, on the grounds that it’s not a problem specific to the iPhone 4; all smartphones do it. As a case in point, they reproduced page 13 From the HTC Droid Eris User Manual:
Doesn’t this raise an obvious question: where is the equivalent page in the iPhone 4 manual?
For an informative and entertaining discussion about the iPhone 4 and antenna issues in general, take a listen to This Week in Tech from July 3rd (player below). The panel includes Leo Laporte, Jerry Pournelle, Steve Gibson and Spencer Webb, an actual RF (radio frequency) engineer.
TWiT 255: You're Holding It Wrong
