iPhone 4’s New Antenna System To Offer Less Dropped Calls

One of the many things that Apple is known for is the design of its products. However, in the new iPhone 4 you may have noticed tiny black seams across the rim of the device, all of which seem to not go along with the company's regular persistance in design. This is exactly one of the reasons why people questioned the authenticity of the iPhone 4 prototype first revealed by Gizmodo. Steve Jobs had revealed during his keynote address at WWDC that the stainless steel bands on the new iPhone 4 are actually a part of the "primary structural element" of the device that house the iPhone's antenna system. As seen from the video below the seams cater to the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS functions while the other part is dedicated to UMTS and GSM functions.

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This could be very good news for iPhone users, especially to those who are in the New York and San Francisco areas who regularly suffer from high dropped call rates. AT&T is usually the one typically blamed for not bilding sufficient infrastructure that caters to high network usage, there have also been reports in the past that suggest that Apple is equally to blame for the poor network coverage on the iPhone. Senior vice president for telecommunications research at Nielsen, Roger Entner, wrote that a flawed design of the iPhone's "air interface" was a primary cause for the high dropped call rates on the device. The air interface connects the phone to the cell towers and is responsible for both voice and data transmission. It is suspected that the new antenna system should fix the network connectivity issues, which should result in fewer dropped calls (at least for AT&T's iPhone customers). Never the less, Apple's engineers should be praised and given credit for this new design, which, as Jobs noted, has never been done before in a phone. A round of applause for Apple who continues to keep innovating. What do you think of the iPhone 4's new antenna system? Drop your comments below!

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