Smartphones Are Not Perfect: Nokia N97 Mini

July 20, 2010

Nokia via Engadget:

… we pri­or­i­tize antenna per­for­mance over phys­i­cal design if they are ever in conflict.

Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber:

Judging by how their phones look, must be a lot of conflicts.

The Nokia N97 mini must have had a con­flict since the phys­i­cal design is less than desir­able. But then what’s this accord­ing to Apple:

In our tests, the Nokia N97 mini dropped from 7 bars to 2 bars when held in a way that atten­u­ated the signal.

Ugly and has sig­nal attenuation…