Instant Karma: Nokia pokes fun at iPhone 4 death grip, is quickly rebuffed

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Monday, June 28th, 2010


Well, we can file this one under blatant Apple apologizing, but the story is too funny not to post. You probably saw the funny little Nokia post that went up this morning, detailing the many ways you could hold your phone without affecting the signal. I like that they make fun of their own 7600, too. All in good fun — until the commenters quickly pointed out videos and even manual pages warning of signal loss from the wrong grip method.

To be fair, the issue doesn’t seem to be nearly as pronounced in Nokia’s phones, since they don’t locate their antenna in a place covered by the palm during normal use.

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