iPhone 4's "death grip" on Vibrant?

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/...Sfeed_IWK_News


Anyone see this happen to there phone?

Holy crap it's true, but you have to hold it in such an awkward way that I doubt I will be able to reproduce it in real life use.

I guess The Jobs wasn't lying about other phones having the issue.

I heard about this Via T-MoNews... I have tried to emulate it and I will say this:

It is true. When I held the phone "Death Grip" Style.. I lost 'bars'. But 'bars' mesning the physical representation of bars on the screen. I did not lose and data speed, and i did not check to see if voice was affected, but i have been talking on the phone all day with no problem. I also tried this in my basement where i have poor 3g reception.

I think that this is an issue on the grounds of the physical representation of 'bars' on the phone may not be calibrated properly, but if anything, a fix would make the phone appear to have MORE service, and not less, like the iPhone.

Yep, tested a few times. It's true, but it's entirely a different issue from the iPhone4's troubles.

Basically the full antenna hump has to by lying flush against the palm of your hand and it has to be held down against the palm with quite a bit of force, basically an airtight seal. I don't ever see me holding the phone in this fashion, for any reason other than to test this.

I don't think anyone ever denied that every phone in existence has some signal drop when held in a particular way. My Vibrant goes from 4 bars to 3 when held deliberately attempting to cover the entire antenna bump, but I am inside an office building that causes AT&T to go from 1-2 bars to zero when not holding the phone at all.

I attempted the two handed airtight seal method and couldn't get more than 1 bar to drop.

I can see it now "Every phone is going to get this death grip test." Is death grip considered has holding it normally or covering everything? As far as I know, iPhone had a problem when you normally hold your phone with your left hand. I went outside and did the same thing since I don't get a strong reception in my house and it was fine. Now, if I hold the bottom of the phone, then bars drop, but that should be expected.

Another thing to mention here. In that link posted by the OP, the editor had no trouble with calls and etc on the iPhone 4 while the Apple's co-founder had a different experience according to an article posted by Techcrunch.

Yes, this is for all cellphones...for a tp2 if I hold it by pinching the top right corner....I loose 3 bars...but it is not realistic to hold it that way..

On the iphone they had the antenna swirled around the phone...thus it end up in the bottom left corner which you normally would hold...

That article is trying to cover for the iphone's design flaw in general..on the Vibrant and captivate you wouldn't generally hold the phone that way for it to matter...

Drop in bars, but no dropped calls. That is a massive distinction that the source article fails to mention. Vibrant FTW

Originally Posted by gTen

That article is trying to cover for the iphone's design flaw in general..on the Vibrant and captivate you wouldn't generally hold the phone that way for it to matter...

That's the key issue - it's a non-issue for most phones during "normal use". You have to actually try to cover the exact area, which is not a normal holding position most of the time. That's not the case for the 4G, I've seen it happen when holding the phone as I normally would with my left hand.

I'm not trying to bash the iPhone because I do like the design overall, but the article seems to leave out some key distinctions that make the iPhone issue different.

That article is so incredibly poor. ^ hit on it exactly. These are NOT the same issues.

Let the thread die.. i do not like seeing iGadget comparisons on XDA.

Ha, do it for me guys!