RIM on Apple Presentation: Unacceptable
This is certainly not a good time for Apple to be making more enemies.
With all the media coverage on Apple’s iPhone antenna issues, it seems that the folks at Cupertino are slowly losing their nerve. And for some strange reason, they believe that there is nothing like an emergency press conference to convince the world that ‘Apple is not the only company suffering from issues regarding antenna performance’. However, Steve Jobs’ smoke and mirrors performance is certainly going to do worse for his company than not having a press conference at all.
The man implicated several handsets and their mobile phone makers as also having similar issues to the Apple iPhone 4’s antenna issues. One slide directly pointed out the BlackBerry Bold 9700, Samsung Omnia 2 and an HTC handset.
While mobile phones do lose a couple of signals when held in a unique way, all of these devices will still allow users to make a call successfully; Apple’s iPhone 4 cannot. This is where Jobs’ presentation has hit a major error.
RIM, unhappy with having their mobile device mentioned by Apple, has written an open letter. They stated that “Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation.” They also mentioned that not a single BlackBerry handset needs to have a casing just so it would work properly.
Finnish company Nokia, currently the largest phone maker in the world, has also stated that their company tests and evaluates all mobile phone designs which ensures that all aspects of the product hardware, including the antenna, functions properly. Samsung and Motorola have also voiced out similar statements as well.
According to Samsung, “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.”
