Can you make your current phone lose signal depending on how you hold it?

By on Jul 17, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Featured July 17, 2010

With Apple publicly stating specific handsets are susceptible to the same kind of antenna attenuation as the iPhone 4, and RIM and Nokia chiming in, we wanted to know what you guys are finding. Can you reproduce the same effect on your handset? Here is a handset that Apple didn’t specifically call out, the Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9650, and you can see it takes a nice hit when we hold it pretty firm in our hands. I’m pretty sure this has always happened, but I’m not sure I noticed until now. Plus it’s on Verizon. *Gasp*

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  • CJ

    Why the hell is anyone wasting time on this BS? The iPhone is defective, all 3 generations, and Steve Jobs is a f’n liar. Even if other phones do drop bars when held a certainwY the iPhone is tje only 1 dropping calls and throttling your download speed because of how it’s held. In my household we now have 5 phones; 2 iPhone 4′s & a BlackBerry Bold on AT&T as well as an HTC Incredible & a Motorola Droid on Verizon. We have tried exhaustively to and the iPhones are the only ones we can get to drop bars and calls! I know many people with smartphones on AT&T and none of them have the issues that plague the iPhone. Sure, AT&T has crappy service but let’s be real, the iPhone is a lousy phone!

  • RealDeal

    I can do a double fisted death grip on my 9700 and I don’t drop a single bar. This video looks a bit fishy considering there has never been real coverage/signal strength complaints about any of the Bold BB’s in the past.

  • celticchrys

    I’m using an older model phone, the HTC Touch Vogue(hacked to run Android), but I can wrap my hands completely around it, covering all edges and the back completely, and it has zero apparent effect on the signal strength or call quality.

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