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iPhone Antennas – The OEM’s Weigh In

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While competitors took issue with Steve Job's characterization of antenna problems as common to all smart phones, some of their manuals emphasize holding phones certain ways to avoid iPhone-like antenna coupling problems. Above is a page from the HTC Droid Eris manual (p.13). Source: David Chartier "Don't Hold It Wrong."

Apple’s competitors were not happy with Steve Job’s attempt to paint the iPhone’s antenna problems as similar to those faced by other smart phones. This Wireless Week piece presents feedback from Samsung, RIM, HTC, Motorola, and Nokia. An industry source I contacted declined to comment, saying his company’s testing was proprietary data and could not be released.

At the same time however, several phone manuals including those for the HTC Touch and Droid Eris, Nokia e63 and N97 have specific warnings regarding not touching areas of the phone to avoid interfering with the internal antenna function. David Chartier compiled a collection at “Don’t Hold it Wrong” (via Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing).

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Hans
Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and explains his unique solution to wave particle duality at the Fields & Energy Substack.

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