Apple removes competitors' phones from iPhone 4 antenna page

Apple's iPhone 4 antenna page, which shows the great lengths the company goes to in order to test its handsets, no longer features videos of competing smartphones losing reception when held improperly.

The "death grip" videos previously posted at apple.com/antenna showed a number of handsets experiencing signal attenuation when held. Most recently, Motorola's Droid X had been added to the page.

The antenna information page had also previously shown Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC's Droid Eris, Samsung's Windows Mobile Omnia II, Nokia's N97, as well as Apple's own iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

Competing smartphone makers took issue with the fact that Apple had compared their phones to the iPhone 4. They argued that their phones did not experience the same level of signal attenuation as the iPhone 4, which can lose signal strength when the bottom left corner of the device is touched. But Apple's videos of the phones suggested otherwise, showing popular handsets losing signal when held in the hand.

The videos, however, remain on Apple's official YouTube channel.

The official antenna page still features one video, that offers an inside look at Apple's antenna testing labs. The company has invested more than $100 million in its advanced labs, which feature 17 different, state-of-the-art anechoic chambers designed to measure antenna and wireless performance.

88 Comments

str1f3 572 comments · 16 Years

About 14 years ago

Good. It was getting lame.

ivan.rnn01 1803 comments · 16 Years

Good. Hope that shame of the LoC might be somehow mitigated, too.

canucklehead 401 comments · 18 Years

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Originally Posted by ElliotGraham94

I guess apple were the ones RECEIVING legal threats

Well, if Apple's videos showed the truth about the problem with other companies' handsets, what's there to sue about. I mean, the other companies were attacking the iPhone4 first.

I suspect it is probably more of a truce between the companies. We'll see in the following weeks if there is a lack of iPhone4 bashing.

hill60 6976 comments · 16 Years

I guess the positive stories coming from the International launch are doing a better job at nullifying the damage being done by a pack of mainly American whiners than all the videos pointing out the truth were doing.

Sued?

For what?

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your death grip obsessed, whining masses yearning to be drop out free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"