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Originally Posted by gTen
It is highly possible for them not to know about the antenna issue...when you do a test for signal you usually would not touch the device..you would leave a testing program on the phone and drive around by car to see the results....
I do not think an engineer can just knock on Steve Jobs door and say "hey here is a possible problem with the antenna"...neither do I think Steve Jobs is actually sitting there designing the phone himself...
So it is highly possible that engineer can submit a claim for this bug and it was under low priority...
If you think about it, humans do a lot of amazing things but end up overlooking the most simple of things...I remember reading an article about some equation which none of the mathematicians could solve for years, and a college kid solves it by accident cause eh thought it was homework...
Either way it is neglect on Apple's part...and it is not surprising considering apple is pretty new to the cellphone business...in their attempt to make the phone as thin as possible gave way to this overlooking...By next version they will most likely learn from it :/
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Apple must have known, as I said previously, they chose aesthetics over function. This is Apple's 4th gen phone not their first. Hundreds of Apple employees had to touch this phone at some point of the design process. Who makes Apple's cellular chips--Broadcom, you don't think Broadcom gives Apple some sort of check list when you buy millions of chips from them, and how to test them out. Apple or another 3rd party partner probably knows to check for signal levels while holding the phone in your hand in multiple positions. This checklist has probably been handed down from the first gen iPhone or the first cell phone ever made for that matter.
What about SAR testing? In order to check how much RF radiation is going into your hand/head/waist you probably would test while holding the phone in all sorts of positions and have the phone produce varying degrees of signal power levels. I would think that every setting you can think of would be turned on during this test especially say
signal db levels. The FCC probably even has a checklist of what cell phone makers need to do before submitting a phone to the FCC for approval. How did they not notice that if you touch the seam your signal drops by 20, 30 db's or more?
Now again it sound to me like Apple chose to ignore some of these checklists, but they had to know, they just had to...