Apple CEO Steve jobs started of today’s press conference with “We are no perfect” and then he said “Phones are not perfect either”.
However, what Steve Jobs missed was that “Our slides are not perfect either?”. Steve Jobs stressed that iPhone 4′s antenna reception issue is not unique, but other smartphones also face the same problem.
Apple: We Are Not Perfect, Our Slides Are Not Perfect Either
Steve Jobs went on to show the death grips of Blackberry Bold, HTC Droid Eris, and Samsung Omnia II and showed series of slides with number of bars in these smartphones before and after the death grip. Surprisingly, Steve Jobs’ slides mixed up the maximum number of bars (Max Bars) with minimum number of bars (Min Bars) for the phones he was comparing.
Check out the column names in the table. Steve Jobs was showing the table not once, but at least three times as he compared the smartphones.
It is nitpicking for sure, but very surprising that Steve Jobs or Apple overlooked this. The effect of last minute call for press release? or Have we completely got it wrong? Check the video and let us know.
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That seems correct.
Without the death grip, the minimum reception is at 5 bars. It is not the maximum.
With the death grip, the reception drops and the maximum is 1 bar.
This means that without the death grip the range was strong and never below 5. And with the death grip the reception was low and never above 1 bar.
Unless I misunderstood what the mistake you are referring to is
Hmmmm.. I thought the maximum bar at the place was 5 and it dropped to the mininum after the grip…
Yes, and when it dropped to the minimal reception, it could only pick up a maximum of 1 bars. (Or 0 bars depending on the phone.)
Whereas when the signal was strong and at it’s maximum, the worst (minimal) reception it could get was 5 bars
The numbers describe the bottom end (min) of the strong range (ie: w/o grip), against the high end (max) of the weak reception (ie: at w/grip)
To be fully descriptive, the labels from left to right should read:
-the minimum reception we were getting before grip
-the maximum reception we were getting after grip
Or even simpler (again from left to right)…
-before grip
-after grip
so yes the chart isn’t perfect. It could have been made simpler