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: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:07:01 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
Signal attenuation when antenna impedance changes (like, when you touch it) is basic radio engineering. Clearly the OT&E environment didn't actually match the operational environment. IOW, it's an IV&V failure.
Gonna be a fun post-mortem at Apple.
-- Tim
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>Jerry (Contractor)
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:38 AM
>To: Dave Schroeder
>Cc: Kim, Andy (Gregg); email@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer
>
>On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
>
>> The iPhone 4 antenna issue is actually several separate issues, and
>with a case -- or ANYTHING to prevent the two antennas from being
>substantially connected by a conductor and/or acting as an attenuator --
>the iPhone 4 is actually better than any previous iPhone:
>
>
>That's kinda what makes me think this is mass hysteria, because
>otherwise it doesn't make any sense at all. If touching your phone in a
>certain way makes it lose signal, well, um, don't touch it that way.
>The solution seems logical to me, but the coverage suggests there's more
>to it than that.
>
>--
>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
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