I can totally reproduce the signal issue in those videos. Hold the phone in my hand...bars slowly drop from 5 to 1. Pinch the phone touching only class, slowly returns to 5 bars. So, all you EE types...is this due to human skin touching the antennas? Will a rubber case (or bumper) resolve the issue?
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Is the signal thing due to skin? Will case resolve it?
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its a software issue, it currently happens on my iPhone 3G right now. I'm not sure what causes it, but I tried it and it happened.
Walt Mossberg called Apple about it and they said that it was a software issue that would be fixed soon.
I sure hope its a software issue. No wonder apple made those bumpers. so we're not in direct contact with their magically revolutionary antenna
It was in his review actually, for everyone to see, spoke and written versions of it.
Yeah but then you forgot about this bit.
"However, on at least six occasions during my tests, the new iPhone was either reporting no service or searching for a network while the old one, held in my other hand, was showing at least a couple of bars. Neither Apple nor AT&T could explain this. The iPhone 4 quickly recovered in these situations, showing service after a few seconds, but it was still troubling."
Which leads me to believe he is talking about this very issue and it's nothing about the software.
