I’m hanging out in Monroe Harbor with my buddy, Chris.  I check my phone to see if my wife has tried to reach me.  I don’t see any messages from her, just a few random emails.  Chris checks his phone too.  “Christ,” he says.

“What?” I ask.

“No service.  This thing sucks! What are you on, Verizon?”

“Nope, AT&T,” I say.  I have Google’s Nexus One phone.

“You get service?” he asks.  He has the last-generation iPhone — the one WITHOUT the antenna issues.

And I sure do.  I have 4 bars and a 3G connection.  I look at his phone … nothing.  No service!

He’s on AT&T too, of course, but he’s getting nothing.  We take a picture of his dead iPhone.

iPhone without service on AT&T

We take a picture (which is actually about 10 pictures trying to get one to focus) of my Android phone.

Nexus One AT&T signal from Monroe Harbor -- 4 bars, 3G

What gives, Apple?  Steve, I swear we were holding it the right way.  It was definitely an #AppleFail.

AT&T?  Maybe Luke Wilson was right.  San Francisco’s Business Times recently started compiling a list of wireless dead zones in San Francisco.  TechCrunch got a kick out of nearly all of them being AT&T’s fault.  But I bet whatever happened on my boat happens in San Francisco too.

Clearly, this one isn’t an AT&T issue.  Apple deserves the blame for this ‘dead zone’ and probably a lot of them in San Francisco too.

Has anyone else encountered this?  Share your experience in the comments.