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Can someone local find out where exactly the Antenna is? Nokia devices have been great at this with the touchpoint at the edges, which feels natural, while most Android devices have an awkward spot somewhere in the lower middle. Is it on the Apple logo? This may still make it feel awkward to use.

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The Verge (among others) is reporting that the antenna is located along the top edge of the phone [1]. Photos of the Apple Pay gesture in action on the slides seems to corroborate this.

And my gut tells me that this is a secondary reason for why they moved the power button over to the right side of the phone (primary reason being to accommodate smaller hands with the larger screen sizes).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6107091/apple-watch-iphone-...

Thanks! That sounds indeed as if they tried to optimize the experience. Watching people try finding the NFC sweetspot by swiping the bottom of their device around on a reader deviceis painful.

Apple showed where it was during the event, I don't recall exactly where it is in the stream, but it's there. It's on the top of the phone.

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