{"id":2616,"date":"2010-07-15T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:25:26","slug":"ios-4-0-1-signal-bars-and-tape-reception-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/ios-4-0-1-signal-bars-and-tape-reception-test\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 4.0.1 Signal Bars and Tape Reception Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/3821\">AnandTech<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/3821\"><p>The other thing the tape simulates is how the iPhone 4&rsquo;s antenna would behave with a thick 1-mil (25.4 &micro;m) coating. To test, I cupped the phone just like I did to cause the 24 dBm drop before.&#8230;The takeaway is that the best coatings Apple could possibly apply would bring the drop down to 15 or 16 dB&mdash;in league with the Nexus One&rsquo;s worst case drop, and almost in league with the iPhone 3GS worst case drop.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AnandTech: The other thing the tape simulates is how the iPhone 4&rsquo;s antenna would behave with a thick 1-mil (25.4 &micro;m) coating. To test, I cupped the phone just like I did to cause the 24 dBm drop before.&#8230;The takeaway is that the best coatings Apple could possibly apply would bring the drop down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,85,415],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antenna","tag-iphone","tag-iphone4s"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}