Given all the news about Apple and the performance of its wireless antennas, this is an interesting view behind the scenes of the company's antenna design and test labs.
According to the video, it is the place where Apple engineers and validates all its wireless products. Made up of 17 anechoic chambers, they say it is the only way to accurately measure antenna performance, eliminating the effects of echo...
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I'm sure it cost a lot of money, but in the end only real world performance matters. Do they do in-the-wild testing?
Posted by David Hodgson | August 25, 2010 11:16 AM
It must have been really comforting for the iPhone 4 team to have had access to all that investment in kit to test their antenna design.
I wonder what went wrong?
Posted by Richard Dees | August 25, 2010 12:41 PM
no wonder they can't design antennas. They get horizontal and vertical mixed up.
Repeat slowly, Apple persons: rotation in a horizontal plane is about a vertical axis, and vice versa.
John
Posted by john | August 25, 2010 1:26 PM