HAHAH! Opps! I have seen it quoted in other places as the "9700, quite possibly the most widely used business device" or something to that extent. GREAT find!
10:11AM "The BlackBerry Bold 9700... let's see what happens when you hold it in a normal way... 5 bars... and now on holding the left side. The bars go down."
10:11AM "The BlackBerry Bold 9700... let's see what happens when you hold it in a normal way... 5 bars... and now on holding the left side. The bars go down."
He can probably get a 9800 if he wants one, just as Mike Lazaridis, probably could have (probably did have) an iphone 4G well in advance of the regular folks.
I just tried it sans case on my 9700 with Tmobile and the bars stayed the same...but I wasn't squeezing it either i was holding it in my hand and basically covered the sides and the back.
I just tried it sans case on my 9700 with Tmobile and the bars stayed the same...but I wasn't squeezing it either i was holding it in my hand and basically covered the sides and the back.
you have to remove the case. your hand/body is a conductor so if you have a case on it, its blocking you're hand from interfering with antenna
When would you ever hold a qwerty blackberry like that? That's a touch screen grip.
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looking at that grip it looks pretty standard to me, most people hold it like that when holding it to there ear. and "without" a case there maybe some bars lost but not enough to be noticeable by many. outside of the case i had no problem duplicating that problem. i could imagine in a poor signal area when i only have 1-2bars and no case i'd probably experience a call failed message
Granted, trying to suffocate your phone may cause it to lose signal.
Personally, I don't attempt to crack the the screen on my BlackBerry when talking or typing on it...
BUT THATS JUST ME OF COURSE..
There could always be the psycho person that's like "I WISH I COULD MAKE MY BLACKBERRY LOSE SIGNAL LIKE THE IPHONE..MAYBE I SHOULD SQUEEZE IT RIDICULOUSLY HARD!!"
I mean, be realistic Apple, the iPhone exhibits the problem by applying minimal pressure that is common in phone calls. MOST people don't try to squeeze the life out of their phones..
Well, I just tried this test on my TMO 9700...without then case on. I had 5 bars and held it just like the picture above. The bars didn't go down until I squeezed harder then it went from 5 bars to 4 but it toggled back and forth.
But I also realized that I don't hold the phone that way when I do talk. Regardless, a one bar dropped is not going to do any harm. I have two friends with the new iPhone and they both experience loss of signal when they do that grip. They both have cases on their phones so they dont care about all this hype.
