Samsung’s own antennagate? Report suggests Galaxy Tab S5e has Wi-Fi flaw

In keeping with a small choice of social media studies, Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab S5e is experiencing Wi-Fi disconnections each time the highest left nook of the software (or backside left nook in panorama mode) is roofed by way of a person’s hand, as reported by way of SamMobile.

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One Galaxy Tab S5e person took to Instagram to reveal his software’s Wi-Fi dropout factor by way of posting the picture underneath, with a few commenters chiming in that they’d skilled equivalent problems. 

It is price noting the person’s declare that it is the 2d pill he is had and that each skilled the similar disconnection downside.

Additional trying out

SamMobile examined the problem for themselves, and whilst the website online was once not able to totally disconnect from Wi-Fi via quite a lot of makes an attempt, the authors did document a 50% drop in sign power.

Sadly for homeowners of the software, like with Apple’s iPhone 4 ‘antennagate’ scandal from 2010, it is believed {that a} device replace could be not able to mend the issue – the one actual repair will require that specific segment of the antenna to be moved in different places via a {hardware} revision. 

At the present, it is unknown how far-reaching the Wi-Fi sign downside in reality is. Within the intervening time, Galaxy Tab S5e homeowners can in large part steer clear of the problem by way of rotating the pill to the suitable when retaining it in panorama mode. Samsung has but to remark at the downside. 

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