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The Right Hand Of Telstra: Meet The In-House Deathgrip Tester
Deathgrip. It sounds like a Harry Potter villain or a Darth Vader finishing-move. No matter what it sounds like, it’s still the arch-nemesis of cellular networks. When Apple addressed the iPhone 4′s deathgrip issue — dubbed Antennagate — it dragged other manufacturers down with it by saying that the same thing happens to all phones when you hold them wrong. Those manufacturers quickly rebuked the claims of Steve Jobs, but inside a sealed, top-secret Australian facility, behind a thick, steel door, Telstra was testing all of its handsets for deathgrip symptoms. The results: deathgrip affects every handset ever made.
Telstra Removes Blue Tick Rating From Motorola Defy
If you’re a country-based reader who had been eyeballing the Motorola Defy for its Android based goodness and Telstra Blue tick rating, you might want to hold off from hopping in the ute and driving to town to pick one up. Joseph Hanlon over at CNet tells us Telstra has removed the rating based on some further testing.
Telstra’s Got A Foam Padded Room For Testing Smartphones Too
Remember those photos from Apple showing their amazing foam padded reception testing rooms? Well, Telstra’s got one of their own, plus a guy called Warwick who tests every single Telstra handset’s antenna performance.
