Let’s put Antennagate behind us: the new iPhone 4S finally eliminates Death Grip issues once and for all, at least according to iSpazio. Having moved over to a dual antenna design, the iPhone 4S shouldn’t plague anyone with dropped calls just because you “held it the wrong way.”
Looking at our iPhone 4S, it does seem like attenuation has drastically been improved with the new model. What about you? Can you get your iPhone 4S to drop its signal just by holding it the wrong way? Let us know in the comments.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “The iPhone 4S Finally Eliminates ‘Death Grip’ Issues Once And For All”
You’re holding it wrong. Use your left hand. That’s where 99% of the complaints were from.
The problem was never the GRIP. It was if your pinky touched the little break line on the lower.left edge. I always did and it cost substantial db loss. Don’t know about the 4S but I’m hopeful.
Great Boss….u have a magical touch….!!!
Well, so sorry guys, I was in the airport and I was so busy.. anyway I have tried with the left hand and it still doesn’t have the effect it used to have on the iPhone 4 :)
Congratulations Samsung! – Yes they own the patents to the dual antenna design.