With the iPhone 4 on Verizon actually being real and able to be demoed by people outside of the company, many questions about the functions compared to the AT&T version. One of the biggest concerns was if the device would suffer from the same “death-grip” issue as it’s AT&T counterpart which turned out to be a huge disaster for Apple. Well the phone has been put through all the tests that could come to the minds of reporters, bloggers and anyone lucky enough to get their hands on it early, and now we have some answers to our questions. Putting your hand in the position now commonly known as the “death-grip”, covering up all the important spots and then holding onto the device mimicking a call, this yielded some interesting results. When the test started, the CDMA iPhone showed 4 bars, with 5 bars indicating full service. As the test went on for one minute, only 1 bar was reported as disappearing. Even when fingers were placed over certain points on the device to try to recreate a new “death grip” that would cover the top portion of the antenna and potential hinder the Verizon version of the phone, no problems were reported. It looks as though Verizon’s confidence in their network that they displayed during the announcement on Tuesday was well placed and we can’t wait to see how the phone holds up in other tests. Do you think the reason the phone did so well during the test had anything to do with Verizons network, or was it because Apple took the time to really redesign the internals to avoid the same press nightmare that happened last time?
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Authors: TechHead