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ars on July 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Senior Apple engineer told Jobs antenna could fail

The thing I never understood is why put the gap on the lower left corner? Why not put it at the top?

The lower left corner seems the worst possible of all possible places to put it.

samlittlewood on July 15, 2010 [–]

FCC regs about how much radiation is absorbed by the user's head when holding the handset up to their ear - apparently most phones have the antenna at the base.

There was an article talking about this when the phone first came out.

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