Apple’s keen on eliminating antenna woes in its products, even ones you may not even realize had antennas in the first place. A new patent win for the Cupertino, California, giant illustrates a method for integrating a cellular antenna into MacBook and iMac keyboards, specifically by placing antennas under some [...]
The Verizon iPhone 4's network settings menu. Jon Snyder/Wired.com Consumer Reports claims the Verizon iPhone 4 exhibits signal loss when held in a specific way, similar to the problems seen in the AT&T iPhone 4 last year. More Verizon iPhone coverage on Wired.com: Review: Verizon iPhone Hands-On With the Verizon iPhone [...]
The decorative becomes functional Apple has always been famous for placing its logo into the lids or backs of its various devices; most notable in its Mac book range of laptops, as the logo is illuminated when turned on. Now, it seems that this logo will not just have an [...]
Naval tech researcher Spawar has figured out how to use a jet of seawater as an antenna. By squirting a measured length of saltwater through a “current-probe”, various antennae can be formed which will transmit and receive radio-waves on the UHF, VHF and HF frequencies. Why bother? Ships have limited [...]
Videos pulled, but only in the USA Apple has in a surprise move removed videos from its American website criticising its competitors. The decision, which currently only affects the US site, follows high profile ad campaigns by Apple’s competitors such as Motorola and Nokia against Apple in retaliation for videos [...]
Steve Jobs pulls back the curtain on $100m development How do you test a phone so that it only has around 15,000 people out of 3 million complaining??Apple?says you chuck it in their anechoic chambers. Keen to prove that they really did test the new iPhone 4?to the limit, the [...]
After a press conference Friday addressing the iPhone 4’s antenna, Apple gave journalists a private tour of its radio-frequency test facility to provide a glimpse into the process of designing wireless products such as iPhones and iPads. Led by Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert at Apple, the [...]
Steve Jobs was tipped off by Apple’s wireless expert about potential antenna problems of the iPhone 4 early in its design phase, according to Bloomberg. Ruben Caballero, a senior engineer and antenna expert at Apple, told executives that the device’s external antenna design could lead to reception problems, a source [...]
Stuck with one of those non-magical iPhone 4s? Sad that, despite the beautiful retina display, the faster internet speeds, the longer battery life and the 5MP camera, you might experience a drop in signal strength when you hold it wrong? Then iTape is for you. This innovative roll of Scotch-tape [...]
The iPhone Death-Grip may be getting all the press, but it isn’t enough to stop Apple’s latest handset from knocking it out of the park in Consumer Reports’ latest smartphone round-up. As honey-voiced Gadget Lab editor Dylan Tweney wrote yesterday, the antenna issues, which causes the iPhone 4’s signal to [...]