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From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Jul 2010 13:05 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> writes: > What puzzles me about reception is the way both my iPhone 2 and Vt's iPhone > 3GS display pretty much random numbers of bars at any given time. Can signal > strength vary from five bars to no signal (on both Edge and WiFi > independently) so often, so quickly? Hmm, if you're standing still and everything around is also staticd this would be very strange, yes. But when you're moving around and are in an urban environment this can happen. You get signal reflections, dead zones, all kinds of things. 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: Martin S Taylor on 5 Jul 2010 13:08 Jochem Huhmann wrote >> What puzzles me about reception is the way both my iPhone 2 and Vt's iPhone >> 3GS display pretty much random numbers of bars at any given time. Can >> signal >> strength vary from five bars to no signal (on both Edge and WiFi >> independently) so often, so quickly? > > Hmm, if you're standing still and everything around is also staticd this > would be very strange, yes. Lying in bed normally. Not just Edge, but WiFi changes, so it's not likely to be congestion. MST
From: Martin S Taylor on 5 Jul 2010 13:11 Jochem Huhmann wrote > I think Apple knew about this and thought it to be something they can > get away with. Call it a deliberate design tradeoff. Would have been > much easier on them if they had included a bumper in the box and got the > signal bars right from the beginning, though. Or varnished the thing. MST
From: Sak Wathanasin on 5 Jul 2010 13:15 On 5 July, 17:30, zoara <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Not quite. I can pick up an iPhone 4 and hold it in my hand and still > get signal; So how much of a signal did you get to begin with? Without touching it, I mean. > My iPhone 3G, in the same place, has a minor drop but has to be held > very unnaturally. I can't get it to go to "no signal" in the same > circumstances. Surely the difference between the 3 & 4 is that with the latter the antennae are on the outside, so it is possible to bridge the 2 with a finger. This much is clear from the anandtech article where they show that the drop in signal is much worse on the 4 than with other phones. However, having the antennae on the outside means it's better at pulling in a signal to begin with, so was this a good trade-off? I suspect for most people, the answer is "yes", but not for a sizeable minority.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Jul 2010 13:25
Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> writes: > Jochem Huhmann wrote >>> What puzzles me about reception is the way both my iPhone 2 and Vt's iPhone >>> 3GS display pretty much random numbers of bars at any given time. Can >>> signal >>> strength vary from five bars to no signal (on both Edge and WiFi >>> independently) so often, so quickly? >> >> Hmm, if you're standing still and everything around is also staticd this >> would be very strange, yes. > > Lying in bed normally. Not just Edge, but WiFi changes, so it's not likely to > be congestion. Maybe interference with other RF signals around? 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 |