nosugrefneb » iphone 4 http://nosugrefneb.org (benferguson) Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Mushy Charles http://nosugrefneb.org/2244 http://nosugrefneb.org/2244#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:34:00 +0000 nosugrefneb http://nosugrefneb.org/?p=2244

Flickr’s blog recently highlighted an amazing series of photos of lounging dogs.

Well, Charles can do that too. He just prefers to lie on top of someone.

]]> http://nosugrefneb.org/2244/feed 0 iPhone 4 “Grip of Death”: Not So Deathy After All http://nosugrefneb.org/2229 http://nosugrefneb.org/2229#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:22:06 +0000 nosugrefneb http://nosugrefneb.org/?p=2229 After hearing all about the “Grip of Death” associated with iPhone 4 and its ability to bring network signals and download speeds to their knees, and ultimately inspired by Marco Arment’s own testing, I decided I’d try it out myself. Rather than seeing slower download speeds, mine seem to get faster when covering the antenna gap.

A few points:

  • Clear’s wifi is at times awesome and at times horrible. It was horrible tonight.
  • In my particular environment, the “Grip of Death” appears to be quite invigorating for my download speeds despite a one-bar drop in signal. The average DL speed was virtually unchanged from when it was sitting there untouched.
  • It looks like the worst thing I can do is a) use my home wifi, or b) hold my phone other than how I would normally hold it.
  • I am an antenna.
  • While writing this post, I noticed my bars alternate between two and five simply due to AT&T’s network peculiarities. I wonder to what extent this GoD problem is exaggerated simply because of signal strength variations that happen on their own.
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