Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
- From: "Blackmon Jerry (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:25:05 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
Wow. How was something like this possibly not revealed in testing?
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Jerry L. Blackmon II <email@hidden>
Senior Systems Administrator
Open Technology Group (Contractor)
OITO, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
"The more I learn about computers, the more I like my pencil." -- Susan Katz
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
> It's real. Between ATT awful signal and the antenna issue I am at about 80 percent call fail rate.
>
> The bumper helps a bit but still bad.
>
> Sent from my HTC EVO 4G Android Phone
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Blackmon Jerry (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2010 9:10 am
> Subject: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
> To: "Kim, Andy (Gregg)" <email@hidden>
> Cc: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
>
> Is this typical sky is falling Apple hysteria that'll be cured by a software update, or is it real? I don't have an iPhone 4, so I can't tell.
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> Jerry L. Blackmon II <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
>
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Open Technology Group (Contractor)
> OITO, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
>
> "The more I learn about computers, the more I like my pencil." -- Susan Katz
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Kim, Andy (Gregg) wrote:
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> In case you didn’t know that Apple is looking to hire iPhone and iPod antenna engineers, according to Apple jobs.
> http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=55849&CurrentPage=1
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> This is almost certainly in regard to an antenna issue causing poor reception and dropped calls, especially left-handed person like me.
> Apple has gotten mounting complaints that holding the new iPhone in a certain way can impede signal strength, making it difficult or even impossible to make and maintain calls.
> The problems seem to be more prone to left-handed iPhone owners.
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> There are three Apple job postings for iPhone / iPad antenna engineers to "define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices." All two were posted.
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> Andy Kim
> Dir of I T
> U.S. Senator Judd Gregg
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