When we
first exposed the iPhone 4 to the world, many of you were skeptical about its authenticity. Frankly, so were we,
initially anyway. A device with black seams disrupting its otherwise clean lines just couldn't be from Apple, a company notorious for its obsessive design aesthetic. Well, now that the iPhone 4 is official, Steve took a moment to explain that the stainless steel band is actually an integral part of the iPhone's antenna system -- one part dedicated to Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS; the other larger half to UMTS and GSM. Something that, according to Steve, has never been done before in a phone. We'll have to wait a bit before we know whether this "brilliant engineering" translates into fewer dropped calls for frustrated AT&T customers. But it's hard to imagine that Apple would take the time to show its antennas to developers if there wasn't a downstream reward for consumers. Remember, Steve
did say last week that things "
should be getting a lot better soon" on AT&T. Click through to hear Apple's loyal software developers ooh and aah over the iPhone's really cool ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical current, and back. Amazing.
posted June 8th 2010 8:36AM
I too live in Tampa Bay, and I have had AT&T for 2 years on the iPhone (3G, then 3GS). Just got an EVO to try last Friday. MUCH better call quality and no dropped calls. Not sold yet (almost), but I really hope the new antenna helps. Both here and in the DC area, I got dropped calls ALL the time...
I love how he acts like he didn't even know about if until that very moment.
"Well it turns out... it turns out that... as it turns out..."
annoying much?
ANTENNA FAIL
you forgot to mention that you can't fucking touch it!