Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer (UNCLASSIFIED)
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer (UNCLASSIFIED)
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple looking for iPhone /iPad Antenna Engineer (UNCLASSIFIED)
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:04:46 -0500
Mike,
You know the deal here; it's not that the bars mean "nothing", it's that people generally don't know what they mean, and are generally interpreted as more always being better. What's "more"? Is it a linear scale? Logarithmic? What do the differences in dB mean to a normal user? Whether you have 1 bar or 5, if you can successfully make a call without dropping it and/or use data, does it matter (generally speaking)?
Signal does matter. But for folks who never actually dropped a call freaking out that they lose 2-3 bars if they contort their hands in some kind of contrived scenario, is there really anything we can call meaningful there?
I'm NOT including people who have iPhone 4-specific dropped calls that seem to be traceable to antenna attenuation that is not exhibited when they use any other handset in the same way; however, this group of people would appear to be very small (and addressed with a bumper or any case).
- Dave
On Jul 6, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
> Interesting that AT&T promoted more bars in more places if it meant nothing. I think signal does matter. Less signal is less battery life.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:46 AM, "Joel Esler" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Another good point that I thought Spencer covered quite well, the bars actually mean nothing.
>>
>> Meaning, Digital signal means on or off. You either have a signal, or you don't. It's not like an analog phone.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
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>>> Great quote on This Week in Tech (TWiT), episode 255:
>>>
>>> "We don't know what the bars mean. The bars are a relative indicator. Nobody knows what the bars mean, but they like the bars."
>>> -- Spencer Webb, Antennasys.com
>>>
>>> Todd
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