Windows Phone 7 fans who own the HTC HD7 might have a lot more in common with iPhone 4 owners after all. According to various reports and YouTube videos, the HTC HD7 suffers from the same antenna issue which plagued the fourth generation iPhone and became the saga formerly known as Antennagate.
We’ve seen the reports from Apple, countless video demonstrations, and at the end of the day we know that gripping almost any phone excessively tight over the antenna causes slight signal degradation. What we didn’t expect was that problem to manifest into the HTC HD7 and certainly not to the extent some users are reporting.
To replicate the issue, simply put your HTC HD7 in your left hand and grip firmly. Since we don’t have a HD7 ourselves, the best advice we can give is based on our experiences with the iPhone 4. The bottom line is that you’ll need to grip really, really hard — much harder than we’d ever consider doing while talking or texting.
Apparently the HTC HD7 is the lone wolf in the Windows Phone 7 Antennagate saga. Tests on the LG Optimus 7, HTC 7 Trophy and Samsung Omnia 7 did not produce the same result. Does this mean that a lone Window Phone 7 device by HTC just happens to suffer from the bug or is there actually something related to the carrier, T-mobile, which causes the results?
We can’t be for certain whether this is a problem affecting every single T-mobile HTC HD7 user, but judging from the iPhone 4 Antennagate saga, we’d expect a similar percentage of affected users. So now that we’ve brought forth the antenna issue affecting the HTC HD7 we need your help. If you or someone you know has access to the HD7 we want to hear from you. Go ahead, grip that phone and let us know how fast those bars tend to drop!
via MobileTechWorld | YouTube
