iPhone 4 Antenna WIN!

• August 16, 2010
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My wife and I were out in the boondocks picking up my mother-in-law from a local day spa. I called my mother-in-law with my iPhone 4 (to her iPhone 4) to let her know we had arrived. The call went through, but we could hardly hear each other. With all the hoopla surrounding the iPhone 4 antenna, I decided to take a look at my wife’s iPhone 3GS. Sure enough, no signal at all. The spa staff were surprised that my mother-in-law was able to even make a call.

I go back and forth defending AT&T at times, cursing them others. Their coverage is great in my area and I sympathize with challenges they’ve faced maintaining and expanding their network, but at the end of the day AT&T is the real reason for “antennagate.” Under the scrutiny of experts, and in my own personal experience, the iPhone 4 antenna is one of the best ever built. If people weren’t already having so many issues with AT&T coverage, they wouldn’t have been scrutinizing the reception of the iPhone 4 and a bit of attenuation certainly wouldn’t have made the news.

Below is my wife’s iPhone 3GS (on the right) and my mother-in-law’s iPhone 4 (on the left). Taken with my iPhone 4.