Verizon iPhone 4 Has New Antenna Design

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Posted January 11, 2011 at 11:34am by iClarified

Engadget reports that press shots for the Verizon iPhone show modifications to the antenna design for the new device. Notice the iPhone below has four notches in the metal band that surrounds the phone.

The Verizon iPhone uses a CDMA radio as opposed to GSM so its possible that the alteration may only be related to that change; however, it only makes sense that Apple would try to improve the antenna performance after Antennagate.

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eric - January 11, 2011 at 11:12pm

If this design had fixed the Antennagate problem, then Apple would've applied it to AT&T version long time ago instead of producing more iphones with the current design. I think, not having the data and voice at the same time is a bigger problem than the Antennagate issue.

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Bs - January 11, 2011 at 1:59pm

Eh... Don't you know that "3G GSM" equals WCDMA which is CDMA

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fenrry - January 11, 2011 at 12:39pm

....GSM....CDMA...some how this seem to be different for a reason... GSM...CDMA....why will it be different....don't know, can't spot the reason....

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Stevo - January 11, 2011 at 12:04pm

I wanna see a head to head death grip comparison the new antenna vs the old

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mat - January 11, 2011 at 11:49am

yeah right engadget is clearly on jobs payroll. if they were honest they would replace all old antennas for free

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David - January 11, 2011 at 11:47am

The so-called "Antennagate" controversy stemmed from having the antenna in very close proximity to the hand. Obviously, this phone uses the same design. There's no thick coating or any other sort of change. Tim Cook also explicitly said they did the minimum design changes needed to accommodate CDMA and nothing more. No need to imply anything else without any information to back it up.

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