Here is a simple solution to all the people whining about the great iPhone 4 dropping calls due to an antenna short. First of all, an antenna is a conductor and needs to be left alone. Its common sense to not touch an antenna when you are using a cell phone. Come on people. You should have known that Apple designed their new phone with the antenna wrapped on the ‘outside’ of the phone. For a tech savvy person who just shelled out $300 you are acting awfully stupid complaining to Apple like its somehow their fault.
Well here is the solution. Don’t touch the phone !!!!
And if you have to touch the phone and make calls and speak to people (although why you want to I cannot understand – You own an iPhone 4 everyone is jealous of you anyway) use this method. (Face of user has been covered to protect identity).
Update: According to Apple, the antenna design is not at fault, but the bar display algorithm. So in other words you were in a bad reception area. The statement makes the whole thing AT&T’s fault. The original complaint has been that because the antenna is on the outside, it causes a short when held a certain way and kills the reception. But by putting this statement out, Apple has basically categorically denies any such problem exists and is blaming AT&T for poor reception and some algorithm that seems to show the wrong signal bar count. Wow, really !!!
Waiting to hear from Apple on the death grip on Friday July 16th 2010.
