The iphone 4 was released the other and has already been plagued by more problems then any other tech gadget I've ever seen to hit commercial retail ever. Plus the front and back is all glass and you ever not drop your phone? It's another attempt to make more money in repairs and replacements. Sites are already sold out on replacements screens in days. Big yellow spots and massive reception problems and in response to the reception problems apple has once again insulted people with this.....

"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases."

Basiclly do not use your left hand to hold it however their marketing always shows someone holding it in the 'wrong hand' and the cool aid drinking mac idiots will forever excuse apple and praise Jobs who by the way in his presentation of the iphone was using his left hand as well.

Nothing is foolproof in the hands of a ******* fool . . . not even a computer keyboard.

Works fine for me in every way Paul..... I think we're seeing a lot of exaggeration and negative PR from competitors.

Whats cool aid?

Steve Jobs responded to a query about the problem from one owner by saying: "Just avoid holding it in that way."

Beej - I think Mr Mac hater may be referring to the habit of drinking lsd spiked kool aid (like kia ora) in the 60's thus inferring that you are all drug addled idiots...

I guess its hard to understand why macs are so useful if you don't work with large image files/graphics/film.

I've worked in the technology industry for close to 20 years now and I've never understood the OS wars. I use a computer as a tool. I started out using Windows. As I started working more and more with Unix systems I moved over to Linux as my main desktop OS. I went back and forth between Windows and Linux during that time but I always tried to pick the right tool for the job.

I just had a read of a blog item about the antenna issue and it seems that holding the phone the "wrong" way, effectively partially shorts out the antenna system - or at the very least can reduce sensitivity, resulting in signal loss and perhaps dropped calls etc. I am an engineer, and when designing ANYTHING a responsible engineer has to consider how the object they are working on will be used and by whom. To desing an antenna that is exposed to the hands of the users is an incredibly stupid mistake if thats what the problem is, because a mobile phone is held in the hands, and the orientation is totally unpredicatble - a thin insulating film or cover would have protected the antenna from being affected by the hands of the user, and thus avoided the whole issue - an insulating plastic film or cover would not, by the way, affect transmission of signlas in or out of the phone. The issue may not be entirely to do with this though, as there are reports that upgrading a 3G phone (via software upgrade) also causes the same problem - indicating to me that it may not just be caused by poor ergonomics. We shall see.

OK, here is a video of the signal loss effect...

Kool-aid is a cheap kid's drink in America ...

but refers to a cult worshiper ...

In the late '70s a mad pastor (Jim Jones) from the US established a religious outpost on Guinea (north coast of South America ...When a gov't probe into kidnapping charges threatened "his flock" he commanded the entire group to drink cyanide lace KOOL-AID ..committing mass suicide(several hundred as I recall)

... ( they took is command so literally)

....thus one who is willing to drink the Kool-Aid ....