Steve Jobs: iPhone 4 Antenna Problem a 'Avoid holding it' wrong

No sooner was it launched the iPhone 4 was in the news. In case suspicion of a manufacturing defect. A pattern causing a loss of signal was indeed found yesterday in the early hours of the new flagship of Apple. The information was very quick around the web specialty and we would do ourselves the Relay, to support demonstration in our video grip (you can find the excerpt in question below).

The problem occurs when in fact bypasses the two parts of the antenna, one for voice communications (GSM and 3G) and one for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, embodied here by the metal around the terminal itself. Problem, human skin is conductive, the mere fact of holding the phone, especially the left hand, can cause signal loss.

Steve Jobs himself has responded to complaints by email to several users. The response made by the Apple CEO Craig Brockman, supported by our American colleague TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Blog), is to date the most comprehensive and serves as an official position in the absence of release.

"Keep any phone attenuates the antenna performance, some places are worse than others depending on the placement of antennas," said Steve Jobs first, and rightly so. Other accounts do report significant losses of signal when other phones are hand-held (the Google Nexus One example ).

"Do not take the iPhone 4 in the lower left corner, so as to cover both sides of the separation of black metal edges, or simply use one of many safeguards available," concludes Steve Jobs. In a previous response somewhat cavalier, he said: "Do not just keep it that way." And why not take the iPhone 4 with a glove?

4 The iPhone Is provided free of manufacturing defects, as claimed Steve Jobs? "The problem is related to a protective coating on some pieces missing," replied nevertheless support from Apple to a buyer's iPhone 4, relayed by the U.S. forum MacInTouch before sending him a new replacement phone.