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Apple hunts for iPhone, iPad antenna engineers

updated 09:45 am EDT, Wed June 30, 2010

Search coincides with iPhone 4 reception problems


Apple has quietly begun a search for several antenna engineers, corporate job listings show. People who win one of the positions will be expected to "optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices," specifically the iPad and the iPhone. Candidates must have 10 or more years of experience in the field.

All of the openings appeared on June 23rd, the day many people began receiving the iPhone 4, which has fueled speculation that they may be related to the reception issues people began reporting at the same time. Three other positions connected to iPhone antenna work became available on June 16th, however, which suggests either that Apple has been aware of problems for several weeks or that the June 23rd additions are purely coincidental. The company has alternately denied iPhone signal loss and promised a fix for it.




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  1. Paul Huang

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    06/30, 09:59am | report spam | Reply |

    Problem? what problem?

    The iPhone 4 is perfect, just perfect, wasn't it?

    Maybe Apple needs to be more secretive about wanted ads.

  1. cmoney

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    06/30, 10:08am | report spam | Reply |

    People who win one of the positions?

    Seriously? Interesting use of the thesaurus there.

  1. dynsight

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    06/30, 10:10am | report spam | Reply |

    Where are the horses>

    Good thing they closed the barn door... but where are all the horses?

  1. lkrupp

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    06/30, 10:12am | report spam | Reply |

    Which implies exactly nothing...

    People are grabbing at straws now. Stupidity and mindless speculation rule.

  1. hayesk

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    06/30, 10:34am | report spam | Reply |

    Seriously, MacNN?

    Who, with any credibility, speculated these job postings were because of the antenna issue? Who thinks Apple built, tested, and released the phone with so much fanfare without having enough antenna engineers?

  1. nat

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    06/30, 10:42am | report spam | Reply |

    oh paul

    sweetie, seriously, if you want to bash apple and it's users over on electronista that's one thing, but you come here, where it's, you know, mac centric, well, you're going to get yourself a little spanking.
    btw, is that some kind of attempt at sarcasm? cause, you know, it's not really well done. amateurish actually. go and regroup and come back later with something with some bite to it.

  1. Inkling

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    06/30, 11:07am | report spam | Reply |

    Long overdue

    Finally, Apple is doing something about an issue I've whined about for years, beginning when they began to make Macs with metal cases. (Even a first year physics major knows radio waves don't penetrate metal.) And the Mac news community shares some of the blame for this. Every new Mac and iPhone ought to be taken to an antenna range to have its radiation pattern and range scientifically plotted and compared. Give us data and not the childish counting of bars!

    Apple also needs to hire staff with Bluetooth expertise. I'm disgusted that my second generation iPod touch still won't talk with Apple's Bluetooth keyboard, and that none of Apple's mobile devices have the handy Bluetooth synching features that my long-departed Motorola RAZR had. Apple's has more than enough gifted people to create a system that auto-synchs iPhones and iPod touches any time they come within range of their home Mac.

  1. Person Man

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    06/30, 12:10pm | report spam | Reply |

    To Inkling

    Every iPhone has its radiation pattern and range scientifically plotted. That is a requirement for certification by the FCC and by other countries' regulatory agencies. I'm sure you can find the data if you look hard enough on the FCC's site.

    Regarding wireless syncing of devices, Jobs has said (in one of his short e-mails) that it is coming.

    I don't think that "Bluetooth expertise" has anything to do with the lack of Bluetooth keyboard support on the iPod touch 2G. Apple could do it if they had wanted to, but they (for whatever reason) decided not to.

  1. testudo

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    06/30, 12:45pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Seriously, MacNN?

    Who, with any credibility, speculated these job postings were because of the antenna issue? Who thinks Apple built, tested, and released the phone with so much fanfare without having enough antenna engineers?

    No one said they didn't have enough antenna engineers. But could it be that they had bad antenna engineers?

  1. nat

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    06/30, 02:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    oh testudo

    could it be that they had bad engineers? why yes, yes it could. could it be that they had good engineers but not the right ones? why yes, yes it could. could it be that they didn't put any engineers at all on it and just hoped for the best? why yes, yes it could. could it be that they had the right engineers but overlooked something? why yes, yes it could. could it be that the posting has absolutely nothing to do with current issue? why yes, yes it could. could it be that...(insert some inane statement in here). why yes, yes it could.

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