Verizon iPhone 4 - Same Antenna Problem?

[edro]

I have an iPhone 3G and want to upgrade to a new phone. I am an iPhone fanboi, and don't want to wait until September to get an improved iPhone4, as the rumors are saying.

I am on AT&T and my service is below average. I want to go back to Verizon, who I had for 10 years.

Does the Verizon version have the same antenna issue as the AT&T version?
I searched around, but I want to hear a general consensus, not what a few websites say when searching for "verizon iphone antenna problem".

Anything else I should know about the Verizon version? positive or negative?

Thanks!

 

[alent1234]

the vzw version has a slightly modified antenna and a different radio chip. the AT&T versions are infineon chips,. vzw is qualcomm which is much better and will probably be in all iphones starting later this year

i used to have a 3GS and went to a HTC Inspire and i'm still on AT&T. as a phone the Inspire kills the iphone. i can finally talk in elevators. AT&T is OK, it's just that the iphone is crap as a phone.

and yes, the Inspire has a radio chip from qualcomm. Apple had a lot of problems with infineon in the last few years and finally dumped them

 

[edro]

Awesome, thanks!

 

[gsaldivar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQTCTtjcmKU

 

[Pliablemoose]

If you want an iPhone on Verizon, give it a try, depending on where you live, you have at least 2 weeks to see if it's for you.

The antenna issue is something that none of my friends have a problem with, and I know a lot of people with iP4's.

 

[vi edit]

I own an iphone4 on VZW and can tell you that I can knock a bar or two off the signal by holding the bottom a particular way. It has never resulted in a dropped call though.

 

[edro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQTCTtjcmKU

Wow, crazy!

Thanks for the video btw.

 

[ViRGE]

Straight from AnandTech: The antenna problem does not exist on the CDMA iPhone 4.

Held very tightly in true death-grip fashion, the signal drop is around 16 dB, which is right in the neighborhood of every other smartphone we've tested. Hold a little lighter, and it drops down to around 15 dB. Toss a case on there, and obviously attenuation is way lower at around 9 dB. Death grip is essentially mitigated, and the attenuation when held is now comparable to other smartphones. What we're measuring, of course, is just the numerical signal strength being reported.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Straight from AnandTech: The antenna problem does not exist on the CDMA iPhone 4.

Well if you look at the numbers -15dB from holding naturally makes it suck far more than other phones.

I've personally had experience with the Nexus One and I tossed it because of its attenuation issues. The specific antenna problem where your left hand might cause further attenuation at the gap of the AT&T iPhone might not exist on the VZW iPhone, but this doesn't change the fact that your body weakens the signal considerably on an iPhone still...