Danish Professor Predicted iPhone 4's Antenna Problems

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Remember how cool the iPhone 4′s antenna seemed when Steve Jobs unveiled it during the WWDC keynote? One man who didn’t was Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen, an antenna expert at Denmark’s Aalbord University, who predicted big problems for the antenna before the phone even came out.

Danish website comon.dk posted a story on June 10th, long before the iPhone 4 came out. They chatted with Professor Pedersen, who said back then that the iPhone’s revolutionary antenna design may not be that good.

Pedersen said (machine translated from Danish):

[The new antenna placement] means that the user can not avoid interfering [with the] antenna system. But the human tissue, in any event, have an inhibitory effect on the antenna. Touch means that a larger part of the antenna’s energy turns into heat and lost.  This makes the antenna less efficient to send and receive radio signals.

As we mentioned earlier, antenna expert Spencer Webb (who, as apart of his consulting business, has designed mobile phone antennas) blamed the reception problems on a lack of proper real world testing, all faults of Apple, AT&T and the FCC.

Do you blame Apple for the faulty antenna?