Nokia becomes new victim on Apple web page

BANGALORE, INDIA: Apple chief Steve Jobs has been rebuked by many in mobile industry for pointing fingers at other brands on the antenna reception following the reception complaints about Apple iPhone 4. Despite this Apple seem to be more defiant and on an offensive mode now.

To support its claim that the problem is shared by the entire industry, Apple's new Antenna web page has started targeting all brands with its test results.

Now, Apple's new target is Nokia. The Apple site has already reported Antenna reception problem in BlackBerry, HTC and Samsung models, which the companies denied too.

The new video on the Apple Web page shows the N97 mini’s signal strength bars drop from eight down to two over the course of a minute. The demonstration shows yet another smartphone succumbing to the same issue that has been the focus of iPhone 4 complaints, and also underscores the fact that there isn’t any standardization in how cell signal strength is represented from phone to phone.

Test results as claimed by Apple:

• BlackBerry Bold 9700 dropped from 5 bars to 1 bar when held in a way that attenuated the signal.

• HTC Droid Eris dropped from 4 bars to 0 bars when held in a way that attenuated the signal.

• Nokia N97 mini dropped from 7 bars to 2 bars when held in a way that attenuated the signal.

• Samsung Omnia II dropped from 4 bars to 1 bar when held in a way that attenuated the signal.

• iPhone 3GS dropped from 3 bars to 1 bar when held in a way that attenuated the signal

Also read: Nokia makes fun of Apple iPhone 4

Last week Apple chief Steve Jobs had rejected any suggestion the iPhone 4's design was flawed on the reception issue and claimed the problem was shared by the entire industry.

However, the Job's claim has been strongly denied by Blackberry and Samsung. After Apple put up antenna reception test result of Samsung Omnia II, Samsung said that it had not received significant customer feedback on any signal reduction issue for the Omnia II.

Similarly, Jobs' argument was also swiftly rejected by RIM, which charged Apple of trying deliberately to distort the issues surrounding the iPhone 4's antenna design by asserting RIM's BlackBerry had similar reception problems.

Apple's Antenna web page claims that every smartphone has a cellular antenna. And nearly every smartphone can lose signal strength if you hold it in a certain way. Further, Apple boasts that it has invested more than $100 million building its advanced antenna design and test labs.

It may be recalled here that Nokia's official blog had recentely sought to make fun of Apple's suggestion to iPhone 4 users on defining positions to use the phone, indirectly though, without even mentioning the iPhone 4.