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Samsung responds to Apple: “Reception problems have not happened”

By on July 20, 2010 at 7:01am in Apple (iPhone & iPad), Asides, Mobile News, Samsung

Steve jobs had to hold some sort of press conference about the antenna issues on the iPhone 4. There’s only so much time that you let go by with people bashing your product. Jobs acknowledged that there is a problem with the antenna when you hold it a certain way and decided to give away free Bumpers/cases. During the presentation he also showed images of other manufactures and how their devices also suffer from this “Antennagate” issue.

We’ve heard from RIM, Nokia and HTC. Now Samsung has decided be vocal and stated: “The antenna is located at the bottom of the Omnia 2 phone, while iPhone’s antenna is on the lower left side of the device. Our design keeps the distance between a hand and an antenna. We have fully conducted field tests before the rollout of smartphones. Reception problems have not happened so far, and there is no room for such problems to happen in the future.”

Hwan Kim, VP of Mobile Communications also said “We have not received significant customer feedback on any signal reduction issue for the Omnia II. Based on years of experience of designing high quality phones, Samsung mobile phones employ an internal antenna design technology that optimizes reception quality for any type of hand-grip use.”

The iPhone 4 is launching in Canada on July 30th. Even with this high profile issue about the loss of signal strength… Do you think it’ll still sell out in record time?

(Via: Samsung Hub)

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Discussion

3 comments for “Samsung responds to Apple: “Reception problems have not happened””

  1. It probably WILL sell out as there are enough people with a “Gotta Have It” mentallity. They would gladly overlook the problem, throw on their free case and show off the new phone.

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    Posted by Jeremy R | July 20, 2010, 7:05 am
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  2. Anyone with a previous version of the iPhone “gotta have it” or jump to Android.
    The screens of the previous iPhones look so bad compared to new generation of smartphones (like the iPhone 4 and its “retina display”).

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    Posted by Mathieu | July 20, 2010, 7:41 am
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  3. Of course, it’s the next iPhone! Since anything Apple is automatically cool and hip, people won’t care, after all, they have an iPhone and are now up to date with the ‘best of the best’.

    I’m happily writing this from the Nexus One, which many people (I’m talking streetfolk) would shrug at since it’s not an iPhone and can’t be too great.

    If the iPhone was still Rogers exclusive it might be a different story because the best of phones have terrible reception with Rogers, at lest in the west. You’d think that a mall in the middle of a city of 80 000 people might have reception, but as I learned when I urgently needed to contact a friend, apparently not. I guess that’s why there’s no Rogers booth there.

    Long story short, it’ll sell simply because Apple’s name is on it. It could be the marginal dud it is technically or it could be the next big thing and they’ll both sell very well. They may have lost a few sales so far and may continue to, but in all honesty, do they care more about the customers or the shareholders? Jobs says customers (or at least he claims to love them) but I bet that moves he makes are to try to please shareholders, it is corporate America after all.
    Given it will sell like hotcakes, I doubt they really care about a few lost sales, as long as their stock somehow goes up.

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    Posted by Ethan B | July 20, 2010, 8:24 am
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