Apple iPhone 4 test labs unmasked
- 19 July, 2010 11:14
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Apple iPhone 4 test facility.
In a bid to further appease the iPhone 4 antenna debacle, Apple has released images of its high-tech phone test labs.
Numerous reports have surfaced of the iPhone 4 dropping calls when being held a certain way due to it having an external antenna.
The phone was released in the US earlier this month.
In a press conference last week, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, announced it was giving away free cases to people that bought the device before September 30 as a way of fixing the issue.
According to Apple’s official website, the company spent more than $100 million building the “advanced antenna design and testing facility”.
Engineers were said to have “logged thousands of hours” designing and testing the iPhone 4 in the facilities.
The labs feature 17 antenna characterisation chambers to measure antenna and wireless performance, according to Apple.
The vendor also claimed to have tested the phone in a variety of real-world situations. “iPhone 4 was field-tested in nearly every possible coverage scenario across different vendor and carrier equipment all over the world,” the website said. Apple’s iPhone 4 will be released in Australia on July 30.
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Bill
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So they spent over $100mil on a state of the art test facility as well as testing the equipment on every conceivable network in every country in the world and they still didn't pickup that the thing didn't work if someone held it in their hand? Sounds like Apple are simply doing this for PR purposes or that their testers are complete morons. I'd be more inclined to believe them if they said "we sent one to Steve and he said it looked cool, so we started selling them".