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Apple Fires Back At Nokia with N97 Antenna Performance Video

Well, this is shaping up to be an interesting war between cellphone makers about who’s got the tightest grip on…whatever. Customers or devices? As you maybe have read, Nokia responded to Apple’s Antennagate with this statement:

“In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That’s why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.”

And they sounded pretty serious about it. Too bad the folks at Cupertino have just posted a new video showing the Death Grip killing a Nokia N97 reception.

It’s available here, and just like Apple’s Antenna website says, bars go down from 7 to 2 when holding the device “the wrong way”. Check it out below.

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