Reception issue has to do with Location.

You are the first person to discover this.

 

Horsepuckey.....2 iphones side by side on the same couch...

Mine loses 3 to 4 bars when picked up

Wifes loses no bars and still does't even naked(the phone not wife)

 

Try switching the phones to the other hands and see what happens. Just curious.

 

LOL...side by side isn't the same location. I know this sounds ridiculous, but in my work, I found a "data stream". A place were the reflection on at this spot it lower that any other spot thus creating the highest bandwidths. Holding another phone next to it, didn't generate the values. But if the phones were switch, which ever phone that was in the slip stream of data was getting the better values.

Science. It works..........bitches. (lol not calling you one, i just like saying that)

 

True dat! Especially with Apple's revolutionary engineering. It's just soooo precise.

 

If you have time you should video this and post it in this thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=952387

The OP is looking for the exact thing you are describing. Be careful to be thorough however, another person posted a similar video and quickly discovered afterwards that both their phones were indeed exhibiting the issue.

 

It's so magical. It make me want to cry and sheeet myself. It's so beautiful and lovely.