Worse for Apple, Antenna expert Richard Gaywood confirmed AnandTech’s study…
This is from Wired.com. Attention Internet: as much as I’m enjoying the attention I’m really not an antenna expert, but that’s the meme propagating around the blogging echo chamber and I need to set the record straight. I’ve even had one of the lawyers for the class action lawsuits contact me to ask if I can be an expert witness for them, and that’s just silly. Let me re-quote what I said in my original piece:
I’m fractionally more than Just Another Internet Dude on this subject. I have a Ph.D in wireless network planning techniques from Cardiff University, and I have worked for Keima, a company writing commercial software that helps cellular operators design their networks for optimum performance. I’m not an antenna engineer by any means, but I do have a modest command of how cellular networks are built.
I am a software guy, and specifically, my thesis (27Mb/361 page PDF) and later commercial work was in the field of cell planning (at Keima, we helped plan the rollout of the Sprint/Clearwire 4G network). I’m not a hardware engineer and I’m not an expert in anything other than the incredibly narrow problem I tackled in my doctoral work. I’m not even employed in wireless technology at the moment, although I do keep current with developments.
Sooner or later some genuine expert with access to proper test equipment is going to get their hands on an iPhone 4 and kick my arse with some real science. Think of me as the paramedic who was first on the scene, not the surgeon who’s going to do the hard work.
