According to reports, the
could come with an antenna made of LiquidMetal. Apple is reported to have signed an exclusive agreement with LiquidMetal Technologies to bring their proprietary IP to Apple 's consumer electronics products.
“. This is due to its atomic structure that makes it glass-like while offering a super-strong yet extremely flexible material that is resistant to corrosion and is scratch-proof as well. LiquidMetal is already used (more…)

In fact, Apple updated the antenna section late last week to show how
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As you can see on this page, the videos are nowhere to be found. Instead, the page now only shows the overview of the antenna design and test labs. A search of Apple ’s website brings up a few of the landing pages where the videos used to be — here’s the Droid X one, for example — but now those just redirect to the antenna design page as well. Odd.
Here’s what else (more…)

Not surprisingly, that didn’t go down too well with Apple ’s competitors.
for drawing them into the antenna issue.
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Apple has updated its website to show how Motorola’s Droid X and Nokia N97 mini lose signal strength when you grip them in a certain way.
In case of Motorola Droid X, the location of internal antenna is at the bottom.
In weak signal areas, if you grip Motorola Droid X as seen above then it may negatively affect signal (more…)

When he was asked whether the iPhone 4 antenna issues had impacted sales, he responded:
Let me be very clear: We are selling every unit we can make.
When he was asked to further clarify on the effect of antenna issues and if there were more complaints and returns, he reiterated:
My phone is ringing off the hook with people asking for more demand. So hard to say. Returns are less than for iPhone 3GS, and the ones for this specific issue are extremely (more…)

The opposite of amplification, attenuation happens whenever a signal is obstructed. All antennas — including television, radio, GPS, and cellular antennas — can experience attenuation. And with most antennas, the density and composition of the human hand can cause attenuation to a greater degree than some other materials. On a mobile phone, signal loss typically occurs when your hand attenuates the most sensitive part of the antenna. In the photos (more…)

The results are conclusive – Apple has dramatically changed the signal strength to signal bar mapping in iOS 4.0.1 and the iOS 4.1 beta, making the dynamic range not only much broader, but the range values for each bar much wider. The range of signals that correspond to bars three and four are the same width, and bar two is only slightly less.
The cutoff value for two bars to one bar remains the same, but every other value has increased. The result (more…)

Apple has created “a design fix for the iPhone 4 that more adequately insulates the transceiver,” said Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, who spoke to the company's manufacturing partners.
Apple has told its manufacturers to alter the iPhone production process to include an internal component that will insulate the defective antenna connection that has disrupted the phone's signal reception, said Kumar. This internal bumper will give Apple (more…)

Last year, Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert, informed Apple 's management the device's design may cause reception problems, said the person, who is not authorized to speak on Apple 's behalf and asked not to be identified.
Mr. Jobs liked the design so much that Apple went ahead with its development.
According to Bloomberg, one of Apple ’s carrier partners had also raised concerns about iPhone 4’s new antenna system (more…)

A few reports are surfacing that claim the current reception problem with the iPhone 4 could be an issue with the phone’s OS software instead of the phone’s construction. Similar to the recent videos showing the grip on the iPhone 4 resulting in signal loss, others have released videos showing the same things happening on older models after having upgraded to iOS 4. This indicates the problem is in the operating system instead of the phone’s hardware, (more…)

Most notably, users have pointed out to the loss in signal reception when they are in contact with the iPhone 's antenna band. The issue received widespread coverage after Steve Jobs had noted in an email response to a customer that such issues were a ”
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Not surprisingly, competitors have now been harping on this perceived weakness of iPhone 4 in marketing their upcoming products. In a recently published full page ad on The New York Times (more…)