{"id":3085,"date":"2011-02-21T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2016-06-23T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:54:58","slug":"verizon-iphone-4-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/verizon-iphone-4-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon iPhone 4 Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/4163\">AnandTech<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/4163\"><p>So the long-awaited Verizon iPhone 4 is finally here. It&rsquo;s functionally the same as the GSM\/UMTS iPhone 4 on AT&amp;T, except significantly less prone to unintended signal attenuation from being held thanks to receive diversity through two cellular antennas. Battery life is the same or better than the AT&amp;T iPhone 4, GPS is slightly more precise, Verizon lets you turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot if you pay the fare, and SMS concatenation even works on Verizon&rsquo;s network. There&rsquo;s really nothing to complain about at all or point out as being inordinate about the CDMA iPhone&mdash;it&rsquo;s simply an iPhone 4 on Verizon&rsquo;s network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>They measured the antenna&rsquo;s signal attenuation and found that it&rsquo;s less susceptible to the death grip, as expected. However, when not in a case the Verizon iPhone 4 is worse than all the tested phones except the AT&amp;T iPhone 4. I still think the problems with the antenna design go farther than what&rsquo;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/iphone-4-antenna-press-conference\/\">acknowledged<\/a>. My father returned his iPhone 4 because, even in a case, the signal strength was much worse than his original iPhone (which generally has worse signal than my 3GS), to the point where it was unusable. Fingers crossed that iPhone 5&rsquo;s antenna is better, because I&rsquo;m guessing that soon I won&rsquo;t be able to run the latest version of iOS, and I really want a better camera.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AnandTech: So the long-awaited Verizon iPhone 4 is finally here. It&rsquo;s functionally the same as the GSM\/UMTS iPhone 4 on AT&amp;T, except significantly less prone to unintended signal attenuation from being held thanks to receive diversity through two cellular antennas. Battery life is the same or better than the AT&amp;T iPhone 4, GPS is slightly [&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":[397,85,396],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antenna","tag-iphone","tag-iphone4"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14944,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/14944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}