Bandwidth Drop: iPhone 4 "Grip of Death" demonstrated

[880316RR]

hahaha iphone.... crap.

[yusszx]

Apple is a major fail because they sell fail iphone 4 with the same problem as fail iphone 3gs that jas fail grip of death.

[artsa89]

ewww thats strange....

[MegaBearGarden]

whose gonna put both of their fingers over there when ur trying to download or upload something? ur not even supposed to hold a phone like that. show me that the downloads stop when u hold the phone properly, then can u call it a flaw

[Grymac]

@MegaBearGarden it DOES do the same thing when holding it normally. In the right hand sometimes my pinky touches the gap on the left side of the phone; in the left hand, my palm sometimes touches it. I made the video this way to show that only a minimal contact across that left side black strip was needed to get the bandwidth to drop. Mainly because Apple claimed all phones do the same thing when a hand is wrapped around them. Obviously not what's happening here: antenna detuning.

[Dan18Ward]

was this fixed with a case?

[Grymac]

@Dan18Ward I don't use cases, they're bulky, look bad, and make it hard to slide in my pocket.

[Dan18Ward]

@Grymac good point even so i prefer protection over the ability to slide in to jeans

[Bird47xBox]

@Grymac Totally Agree! :)

[elevn7]

Great video! Thanks!

[herkulesares]

very informative.

[juhanikelo]

Apple will never admit that their desing is bad. That just will never happen even if their are wrong.

[TheFri13]

That is not a cause, it is the result of the problem of the signal booster. Did you know that worst signal drop what you can get with iPhone 4 is -24dB? And only -9dB is caused by the _touch_. -16dB drop is caused by your hands close the phone, not by the touch. And even other phones gives easily from -15dB to -17dB drops in worst case while keeping smartphone in other hand and using it with other..

[turkkauotila]

nice. "Grip of death"

[asaholey]

can you try using a damp cloth and put it on the antenna gap?

[rayala9]

I'm going to stick with my 3gs lol. What about you put a cover on the iPhone 4 you still going to lose signal.

[N0Crrap]

Breliant 

[BedShaker0909]

Great test.. Btw, Apple have NO plans on recalling their phones.. Mainly because they think that MORE people are dumb enough to keep their iPhones and buy a bumper guard and install that "firmware update" RATHER than those people who are going return their iPhones for a Refund.. So they just continue to release misleading statements about the real problems. Now that's iClever !