The other day we told you how Apple was spreading “false” rumors that all smartphones had same antenna reception problems from a “death grip”.
Well, you know what I hate, are big companies who lie straight in the face to unassuming consumers just to protect their brand. I know everyone by now knows that Apple is clearly lying (and FTC should go after them) but let me prove the point that Apple iPhone 4 has an “antenna reception problem” where the phone just stops working whereas it’s not the same case for Droid X.
So in my tests, I used SpeedTest.Net app which measures download and upload speeds of the phone’s data network.
In the first test, I did the speed test with the iPhone 4, where I got pretty good download speeds of 1475kb/s and 0kb/s. AT&T is actually upgrading their upload network so that might be why.
In the second test, I cover the iPhone 4′s antenna gap with my index finger, which will cause complete interference with its voice and data network. It’s not a “death grip” here I used but just a small amount of pressure.
The iPhone 4 immediately dropped bars to 1-2 bars and when I ran the speed test, it doesn’t even download 1kb/s because the data network is essentially “jammed”. This can cause some serious problems for left handers who grip the iPhone 4 in their left hand or even right hand users who grip the iPhone 4 with their left hand.
Also I tried the same test just by placing a piece of metal on the gap and voila, everything including voice/data stopped working period.
(iPhone 4 stops working completely regardless of number of bars when the gap is covered with just a “moderate” amount of finger pressure, not a “death grip” even! Not even 0kb/s….)
In the next phase of testing, I did the same thing with my Droid X, running the same speed test (in the exact same location as you can see by my photo in the back), and got the following results of 541kb/s download and 688kb/s upload.
Next, I imitated how Apple did their Antenna grip on the Droid X exactly, applied a TON of pressure aka “death grip” and I was able to get 2-3 bars to drop.
But here’s the funny thing, it didn’t really affect the performance of Droid X much, I still got decent 478kb/s download and 390kb/s upload, not a complete “death” of the phone’s data network.
As you can see, Apple is clearly trying to “dilute” their own problems which have nothing to do with a “death grip” and “number of bars” but in fact a “finger on the gap” and “zero connection” is the problem at fault.
Hey, Apple asked for it and I gave you exactly why Apple has been lying to the public.
As a consumer, this is unacceptable that a company so big as Apple would go to desperate and deceptive measures to protect their faulty antenna problems.
Leave Droid X alone, it’s obviously not in the same “class” as iPhone 4, it’s double antenna design is near flawless.
One more thing, what my brother in law who has an iPhone 4 since launch day said, “iPhone 4 is like Vista of Microsoft.”
Here, I took the whole process of me doing it in 1080P HD video with my Canon 7D:
