Vibration Mode

[Cory Streater]

Little thing I noticed at CES: when you remove the battery cover there is a little drum shaped wheel that spins when the phone vibrates. It's kind of cool looking and I've never seen that piece exposed in a way you could actually see it.

Incidentally the battery cover is a critical component of the antenna system. If you are in a strong service area your phone should still work without it, but the HTC Rep explained that as the signal weakens the battery door is fundamental.

That is all.

Sorry if either of these things is old news.

 

[paulmike3]

Incidentally the battery cover is a critical component of the antenna system. If you are in a strong service area your phone should still work without it, but the HTC Rep explained that as the signal weakens the battery door is fundamental.

Yeah, I saw a video on the vibrating motor being exposed.

I wonder which antenna the battery cover is for - 3G or LTE? Interesting design, considering you can buy non-oem battery covers, colorware them, buy hard cases that completely cover them, etc. Seems like that may complicate things.

 

[racinbill]

Cases

Little thing I noticed at CES: when you remove the battery cover there is a little drum shaped wheel that spins when the phone vibrates. It's kind of cool looking and I've never seen that piece exposed in a way you could actually see it.

Incidentally the battery cover is a critical component of the antenna system. If you are in a strong service area your phone should still work without it, but the HTC Rep explained that as the signal weakens the battery door is fundamental.

That is all.

Sorry if either of these things is old news.

Thanks! Do you think cases will have any impact on the signal?

 

[Cory Streater]

That's a good question. Some of the metal or magnetic one's maybe?

 

[bmcclure937]

I have seen this somewhere. But now that you bring it up, I do not remember where.

 

[Raptor007]

Third party batteries and battery doors also will play a huge factor as well in weaker signal areas and could cause quicker battery drain. So unless Seidio or others are going to make the battery door better we have a potential issue.

I don't mind putting a Seidio 1750mAh in since it will take the same space as the stock 1400mAh but I really want the 2750mAh from HTC. HTCPedia is saying April 8th, we had this problem with the Droid Inc when it launched and Verizon wound up giving out an additional battery. I don't recall if it was a 2nd stock or the extended.

There really isn't a good reason for these battery doors being delayed for 2 months post launch.

 

[durangojim#AC]

Some other blog mentioned that HTC is now interested in showing components of the phones in all of their future releases as evidenced by the vibrator being visible. In other phones other parts will be. Not really sure why they're doing this but whatever.

 

[paulmike3]

Here's the video showing the vibration motor mechanism. Starts at around 1:20.

 

[anon(75289)]

Ehh say what? As far as I knew the battery door is simply a piece of plastic. Where was it explained that it is actually an extended antenna? I know that the circle below the kick stand is an "antenna opening" but I didn't hear anything about the battery cover.

 

[TBolt2011]

HTC is supposed to be selling more powerful batteries starting in, I think it said on their website, April of this year. I'm assuming that the way they plan to integrate that with possible antenna issues looming would have an effect on the way others were to do it if they so chose.