Posts Tagged ‘death grip

Remember Antennagate? It’s back — this time on Verizon. Stalwart reviews magazine Consumer Reports just announced it will not list the Verizon iPhone 4 among its recommended smartphones because holding it in a “specific but quite natural way can cause dropped calls.” Shortly after the launch of the iPhone 4 on AT&T, reports began to [...]

We covered the whole Antennagate / Death Grip issue of the GSM iPhone 4 pretty consistently back in summer 2010, since it’s definitely one of the biggest Apple fails when it comes to designing a flagship product. Sure, phones weren’t, aren’t and will never be perfect but the Death Grip was there, and there’s no [...]

The iPhone 4 is famous for its retina display, Facetime video-chatting technology and all-around greatness. But it’s also infamous for the grip of death, requiring bumper cases to mitigate the signal loss. The redesigned antenna of the Verizon iPhone 4 might just solve that. (more…) © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities, 2011. | Permalink [...]

The Verizon iPhone is not very different from the AT&T iPhone, but it has been modified to work on Verizon’s CDMA network, which raised questions about whether it, too, will suffer from the infamous grip of death issue. Judging by the first reports that are pouring in, it seems it won’t – at least not [...]

Earlier today, while talking about T-Mobile Germany losing iPhone 4 exclusivity I was telling you that the iPhone 4 is still a very successful device when it comes to sales even despite its various issues. We’ve covered various problems of the iPhone 4 since its launch back in June, with the Death Grip Antennagate being [...]


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