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From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Jul 2010 10:24 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> writes: > On 5 July, 13:47, Jochem Huhmann <j...(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> I still wait for someone actually doing some real tests by taking a 3GS >> and a 4 and test them both in the same situations to see how they >> compare. There's just too much speculation going on. > > <http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2> Yeah, I read this days ago, it's actually what got this whole discussion started. It seems to confirm that the iPhone 4 has massively better reception than the 3GS, except when you grip the antenna in a certain way and the signal is weak to begin with. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Jul 2010 10:30 me32(a)privacy.net (R) writes: >> Why did it work worse in the WWDC keynote? > > To be clear: why did the iPhone 4G seem to have worse WiFi > connectivity than the iPhone 3GS? I have no idea. Maybe the 3GS got accidently a clean WiFi connection and there was none left for the 4 then? This is an anecdote, not data. Try the same in a dozen different setups with both phones and we have something to talk about. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Sak Wathanasin on 5 Jul 2010 10:37 On 5 July, 15:24, Jochem Huhmann <j...(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Sak Wathanasin <s...(a)nan.co.uk> writes: > > On 5 July, 13:47, Jochem Huhmann <j...(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > >> I still wait for someone actually doing some real tests by taking a 3GS > >> and a 4 and test them both in the same situations to see how they > >> compare. There's just too much speculation going on. > > > <http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2> > > Yeah, I read this days ago, it's actually what got this whole discussion Sorry I missed that. > started. It seems to confirm that the iPhone 4 has massively better > reception than the 3GS, except when you grip the antenna in a certain > way and the signal is weak to begin with. I'm not an antenna engineer, so way beyond me, but it does sound plausible that when you bridge the 2 antennae, you change their behaviour.
From: Pd on 5 Jul 2010 10:56 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > No, what I meant was: Someone should take a 3GS and a 4, hack both to > display dB values instead of bars and take a few days to drive around > and test both in several places and situations, writing down the signal > strengths. Then we'd have real-world data to look at and compare. But isn't that exactly what Anandtech did? -- Pd
From: Gwynne Harper on 5 Jul 2010 11:19
Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > I still wait for someone actually doing some real tests by taking a 3GS > and a 4 and test them both in the same situations to see how they > compare. There's just too much speculation going on. See Sak's link earlier in the thread: <<http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2>> Certainly seems objective enough, and adds some plausibility to Apple's claims. Sadly, that means they've hadto admit "exaggerating" iPhone signal stength these last few years; however this also explains the claims about dropped calls in a god signal area. It wasn't, in fact, a good signal. Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line. |