{"id":67,"date":"2010-06-07T04:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-03-19T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:48:06","slug":"the-iphone-signal-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/06\/the-iphone-signal-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone signal problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Real Story behind the iPhone signal problem<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/3794\/the-iphone-4-review\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Anandtech gives a great investigative analysis<\/a>.  In short, all smartphones will suffer  from various hand grip positions. But Apple&#8217;s design is flawed&#8230; it needs to add insulation to  the antenna band, and subsidize a &#8220;bumper&#8221; for customers.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 the bumper is not an ideal solution, and the newer iPhone for Verizon exhibits the same problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Story behind the iPhone signal problem Anandtech gives a great investigative analysis. In short, all smartphones will suffer from various hand grip positions. But Apple&#8217;s design is flawed&#8230; it needs to add insulation to the antenna band, and subsidize a &#8220;bumper&#8221; for customers. UPDATE:\u00a0 the bumper is not an ideal solution, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/06\/the-iphone-signal-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The iPhone signal problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}