Samsung Vibrant Antenna vs. iPhone 4 Antenna!
The other day I did a test showing how iPhone 4′s antenna “gap” problems and “death grip” affects iPhone 4′s entire voice/data, cutting off everything completely regardless of number of bars shown.
For this test, I used SpeedTest app which shows you how fast the phone downloads/uploads.
For iPhone 4, it got 420kbps download and 748 kbps upload on a full bar signal while with its antenna gap covered, the iPhone 4 stopped working completely, it wouldn’t even download 1kbps as shown below:
For Samsung Vibrant, I was getting such bad T-mobile signals, in fact ZERO bars but I still got a good 394kbps download and 799kbps upload:
With a death grip on the Samsung Vibrant, I still managed to get 125kbps download while it stopped working for upload.
If the Samsung Vibrant had at least 1 bar where this test was done, I am sure the results would have been better.
But in comparison to an iPhone 4, the Samsung Vibrant still kicked ass, still being able to download/upload with ZERO bars.
In the end, I realized the bars on the phone have no meaning but whether you can still use the phone with ZERO bars.
It’s clear to me now that iPhone 4′s antenna problems are Apple’s and only theirs, other smartphones like Samsung Vibrant’s antennas are clearly better.
Here’s the whole video of the test I did:
