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I haven't dropped a call yet on my iPhone 4. I've been touching the left hand corner just to see if it happens and it doesn't. Maybe i have a good unit ;)
 
Interesting... I experienced the problem at my home, but now that I'm at work it all seems fine. Holding it in my hand and the bars aren't dropping here...

At home, it's exactly as others have described. While the phone is resting on the table I have 4 bars... pick it up and the bars slowly drop down to 1. Not good.
 
Reception

So far, better reception than my previous 3GS - no signal interference while holding/covering with hands.

Sound quality is amazing, on the other end as well, I am told - noise-canceling mic seems to be working.

Overall, the phone is solid, sleek, and dare I say, snappy. :cool:
 
Interesting... I experienced the problem at my home, but now that I'm at work it all seems fine. Holding it in my hand and the bars aren't dropping here...

At home, it's exactly as others have described. While the phone is resting on the table I have 4 bars... pick it up and the bars slowly drop down to 1. Not good.

This brings hope. Seems like something wacky with the way that the iPhone is currently trying to find the best signal.
 
I haven't dropped a call yet on my iPhone 4. I've been touching the left hand corner just to see if it happens and it doesn't. Maybe i have a good unit ;)

It's location-based, not phone-based. People can pray its just a bad batch of phones, but its not. Whatever the fix is will be applied to ALL of our phones. Yes, even the phones of Apple apologists running around now yelling that there isn't a problem.
 
I bet Apple made all of the testers use a case so people would not see the new design thus the issue was never discovered. :)
 
But they may have all used cases to disguise the phone they were using, which would have masked the issue.

Yep, and when they were being tested outside of a case, it was probably inside of Apple's building with a cell tower 2ft away. Really wouldn't surprised me if Apple's concern over secrecy of the new iPhone 4 screwed them on properly testing the device.
 
Embarrassing it is. Still waiting for my iphone to be delivered but I am pretty sure it will not be different.

A recall at this scale will be a nightmare for everybody.
 
I'll take it a step further, it happens to my WiFi signal as well when I hold the phone in landscape mode. It's very sporadic on my phone, as I type this both 3G and WiFi have fluxed a couple bars in both directions.

yep....noticed it while browsing last night. If I held phone in landscape mode in one hand...no issues, move at all and the phone just stops loading pages.

I was wondering how a metal frame would react with human skin. This is a joke.

I refuse to get bumpers....interested to see if a software fix will do it...if not, the phone is going back and I'm getting a 3GS.
 
But they may have all used cases to disguise the phone they were using, which would have masked the issue.

Yes - but still... It is HIGHLY unlikely that they wouldn't test the phone without the case as well (specially having in mind new design!)... :s
 
But they may have all used cases to disguise the phone they were using, which would have masked the issue.

Exactly! This is one time when Apples super secrecy may have bitten them. The only place the new phone was likely extensively tested out of a case was inside Apple HQ.
 
This brings hope. Seems like something wacky with the way that the iPhone is currently trying to find the best signal.

This is an interesting point.

Until now i believed it was hardware. HOWEVER, it could just be the iPhone Software not dealing with a signal quality change properly. This is the first compelling argument i've seen which suggests that there may not 100% be a need for a recall.
 
Just to repeat, I was able to produce the problem without the bumper, but with the bumper on, I could not. FWIW I really like the bumper. I've never had a 'case' where the buttons work so well. It's almost like it's part of the phone. I'll probably get some additional protection (skins) for the front and back, but other than that, I think it was worth the money.
 
the only way to not have a dropped call is to use speaker and leave it on the desk .....its getting very very very frustrating :mad:
 
I think one of the posters over at Apple's forums summed it up nicely:

"For all these Apple defenders, we'll never be able to convince them Apple may have made a design flaw. They'd rather believe God made a design flaw in our hands that is blocking the signal to their perfectly designed Apple product and demand a redesign of our hands..."

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2475309&start=45&tstart=0

But it's so elegant!!! And SOOO Thin! It's looks absolutely delicious! Oh God, it's MAGICAL and Revolutionary - much better than that "Clunky, Crappy, and Junky" Android stuff!!

Who cares about features?? Not us Apple fans!!! It Just Works!!! Wooo Hoooo Steve!!!! We Love you!! Keep skating to where the puck is going to be!!! It's AT&T's fault. It's Gizmodos Fault! It's Google's Fault, Microsoft. It's George W. Bush's fault....

No Folks, this thing is bad design - PERIOD! The Super Fanboys are typing stuff like I just did above on every fanboy site and on youtube. A bunch of drolling excuses. It's always someone else's fault.... Apple is perfect, everyone else is crap. Be a Man Mr. Jobs, - step up and admit this thing is a Lemon and then do something to fix it...
 
again - mine doesn't have this issue at all...i've desperately tried to recreate it but can't.

Are there others that can't recreate this? Speak up...
 
This is an interesting point.

Until now i believed it was hardware. HOWEVER, it could just be the iPhone Software not dealing with a signal quality change properly. This is the first compelling argument i've seen which suggests that there may not 100% be a need for a recall.

agreed with you on that one. Obviously none of us want to hear it's a hrdware issue but there's no need for all these people to definitively say on this board that it is 100% hardware. Are any of you apple engineers? No. If an apple engineer who worked on the antenna comes out and says it's hardware related, then I will accept it, and really not have a problem with it, because I'll hear it straight from the horse's mouth and realize that **** happens, even to companies who make successful products.
 
Just to repeat, I was able to produce the problem without the bumper, but with the bumper on, I could not. FWIW I really like the bumper. I've never had a 'case' where the buttons work so well. It's almost like it's part of the phone. I'll probably get some additional protection (skins) for the front and back, but other than that, I think it was worth the money.

You really thought paying $30 for a small little piece of Apple plastic was worth it? i can't believe you would settle for this. A phone shouldn't need a $30 piece of plastic to operate. Bring it back and return it.
 
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