Palm Pre Death Grip Attenuation

Pre attenuation

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[Isaac Jacobs]

iPhone 4 has a bullseye, very few manufacturers have acheived such as result. This is all smoke and mirrors (a real problem) but a distraction from the major stuff up from Apple and I dig Apple, but they blew it.

[D0M1N8R1x]

RoFL at "Something so trivial"

[irateb]

Can you re-shoot this video so we can see your whole hand? It already looks terribly awkward, but I'd just like the full effect. And in your video where the Pre doesn't lose as much signal, do you lose EVDO or does it just drop a little?

But I think you're right, if Jobs would have focused on trade-off instead of showing other phone's flaws, we wouldn't have videos of every phone's deathgrip, especially ones where the likelihood of someone holding the phone in such a manner is slim to none.

[Leon Kehoe]

I have tried and failed to repeat this on my Palm Pre.

[xtc340]

Not really. The issue with the iPhone was that you'd lose signal with the phone held in a natural position in the left hand due to the bridging of the antennas. The phrase "death grip" suggests some weird devastating hold, but it was just natural.

Apple have acknowledged this and you'll all get a free bumper/case to mitigate the issue. There will be some attenuation, naturally, as with the other internal antenna phones.

[Justintosh]

Clarification: The spoiled idiots are the people whining about the iPhone 4.

Apple has built what is far and away the best mobile device ever constructed, and all these people can do is whine and complain about something so trivial.

[Justintosh]

And the real point should be… who freaking cares?

It's ridiculous that people are whining so much about loosing a bar or two when they hold their phone a certain way. Spoiled idiots.

[jgh1987]

Nice vid

[JerryWho]

Palm Pre also dies with a death grip~!