Rivals Strike Back At Apple over Their iPhone 4 Claims Of the “Death Grip”
Three of the big companies hit back at Apple this past Friday after Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, made the claim that all smartphones have weak spots and would potentially lead to the “death grip” problems that have been plaguing the iPhone 4. Those three are Nokia, HTC and Research in Motion who makes the Blackberry.
During the press conference on Friday Jobs had insisted that holding any phone in a certain manner would lead to a reduction in connectivity. He made specific mention of phones from Nokia, the Samsung Omnia II, the Blackberry Bold 9700 as well as the Droid Eris from HTC.
In a joint released statement the co CEOs of RIM stated that the accusations that were made by Apple were completely “unacceptable”. They went on to talk about how the claims being made by Apple are nothing more than a deliberate attempt at distorting the public and their understanding of the antenna design flaws that the iPhone 4 has and the attempts at deflecting the attention away from their very complicated situation.
At the press conference Jobs admitted that Apple isn’t perfect and stated that the company was going to give all of the iPhone 4 buyers a case or a bumper which is proven to reduce the signs of the “death grip” and RIM completely scoffed at that one.
RIM stated that there is one thing that is certain and it is that their customers don’t need to have a case to be able to keep connected to their Blackberry smartphone. The CEOs stated that they made their design decisions and they should take responsibility for those decisions instead of trying to draw their company along with all the others into the situation that’s specifically Apple’s and Apple’s alone.
Both Nokia and RIM insisted that the design of their antennas have always been the core focus for their engineers.
RIM on Antennas
RIM prides themselves on being a global leader when it comes to antenna design and they’ve been designing, successfully so, the leading wireless data products in the entire industry, products that have had successful and proficient radio performance for more than two decades. It’s during those years that RIM has managed to always avoid design flaws like those that were in the iPhone 4 and instead has focused on innovate designs which have reduced the risk of any dropped calls and especially in the areas which have low coverage.
Nokia on Antennas
Nokia’s invested literally thousands of their man hours in the studies of how people hold the mobile phones and they allow for this in their design strategy. One example is how they’ve had antennas both at the bottoms and the tops of their phones. Additionally they’ve made very careful selection of their design materials and in their mechanical designs.
One thing is for sure, not matter how much Apple tries to pass the blame their problems are still real, very real. Passing the blame isn’t going to make them go away anytime soon.
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