http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/ Engadget Comments for Nokia muses on grip styles, says you can hold your phone 'any way you like' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
I must be too young to get the whole sidetalkin' thing...]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
What ever happened to putting antennas at the top of phones? Radio signals go up.... RIGHT??]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Oh snap! lol!]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Are you sure you are not talking about hot air?]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Stop defending it and making it seem like this is ok and normal. This is not ok and this is not normal.]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/I believe he is referring to
"...Thing is, hands have never really gotten along with phone antennas -- see the shot of a Nokia user's manual explaining this phenomenon after the break..."

now if it was really defending apple or not... who can say... this is the comments section of engadget - all you get here is stressed out fanboys of something or the other - heaping insults at the other side!]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
"realistically, you're free to hold your Nokia device any way you like... and you won't suffer any signal loss."

Ouch. Apple's gonna feel that one in the morning.]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/"I don't understand Engadget's obsession with defending Apple and pointing out that all antennas and phones experience troubles when you touch with your hand…"

Because Engadget bloggers need to eat man. :)]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
"hands have never really gotten along with phone antennas"

Wow, you may know more than Apple engineers.]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/I don't think is going to care ....]]>Jun 28th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/hey-apple-youre-holding-it-wrong/

I think you missed that one...]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Engadget just wont stop glorifying or promoting apple!
Whats the matter with you people? Why would you want to defend flaws of a device that someone would buy from there hard earned cash, and later regret it just cause Engadget made that defect look minor n covered it up!!!]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
just hoping that's sarcasm. radio signals go up. :D good for a chuckle though. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/It's normal to hold your phone like you are missing your thumb, index finger, and pinky. It's simple logic to do this.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Actually the Nokia Manual doesnt say anything about the signal getting degraded ... just battery life getting less due to more power output, since their antennas are INSIDE the phone... Unlike Apple who , put their antenna outside , will experience reception degradation AND battery degradation due to poor cellular signal!!!!]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Generally discontinued in an attempt to take the radio waves away from the top of your noggin, where the brain usually resides.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Apple sure felt it. They felt so bad they announced 1.7 million phones sold over the weekend. Ouch. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
I just shed a tear for you.

It looks always like this: hehe Apple haha... But]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Apple sure felt it. They felt so bad they announced 1.7 million phones sold over the weekend. Ouch.

/s]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
@Why should I have all the fun

Apple sure felt it. They felt so bad they announced 1.7 million phones sold over the weekend. Ouch.

/s]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
I don't see Engadget defending Apple here at all. All I see is them reporting about Nokia's dig on Apple.
Apple is now the butt of all other handset manufacturer's jokes, as it pertains to ridiculous and stupid design decisions that end up being detrimental, while defending said decisions to the end and passing the blame on to the user.

Yes, they show a Nokia manual talking about how your hand can attenuate the signal, but nowhere does it say that the signal can be completely lost as it does on the iPhone.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/"Generally discontinued in an attempt to take the radio waves away from the top of your noggin, where the brain usually resides."

Where it USUALLY resides? Lucky for those who have their brains in their pants you mean? lol]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
--"Thing is, hands have never really gotten along with phone antennas " (emphasis on never).

...so it begs the question: Why develop a phone that you HOLD using the antenna? Seems like a decision based on aesthetics rather than engineering. Is this what Apple has been reduced to, form over function? ;p]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/You are!!]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
And even the Nokia manual isn't talking about the same thing. Some signal loss or the phone using more battery power to keep the signal because of how you hold it isn't in question. COMPLETELY losing the signal because of how you're holding it is a problem of a different magnitude entirely.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPG52DVQuk

Really there hasnt?]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Fail.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Yeah. Ones that make phone calls.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
No, they don't actually.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Yes.
...at least it appears to be going that way. But that's what consumers want, right?]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Too bad I don't want to hold their POS phones at all! ]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Yeah, we know, it's obvious, but my Nokia phone is made so that I don't touch the antenna under regular use. As simple as location. If I cover the plastic antenna with my hands,the signal will start to drop; common sense :|]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Jun 28th 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/Nice catch... I can reproduce signal loss on an E72... but I have to put it in an unreasonable death grip: laying my hand flat against the back plate and wrapping my fingers around the metal trim on both sides... but low and behold... loss of wifi and cellular by 50%

]]>Jun 28th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
I was actually waiting for this article to show up. Josh posted a tweet on 6/25 with this image from a Nokia 6126 users manual. A phone that is over 4 years old.

Apple is getting flack (and rightfully so) because they touted this new antenna as a feature. Engadget, just own up and admit Apple missed the boat on this one.

]]>Jun 28th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amPG52DVQuk

haha

pot meet kettle

haha]]>Jun 28th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/nokia-muses-on-grip-styles-says-you-can-hold-your-phone-any-wa/
Myopic pile of stupid, you. Just because you are not experiencing difficulties ( with your phone ) does not negate the supreme fail that making a phone that wont make calls is. For the large numbers of people that are affected. You can get your panties all jumbled as much as you like, but Nokia phones I have owned have had significantly better reception than any Iphone so far. Since you are all about using one observation as the general rule, this should prove to you the superiority of those devices, in this area. Now go download some bookmarks so you have some more colorful icons to add to you homescreen. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 5:03PM