Change how you display the bars all you want, you will not fix the much higher absorption you get when you hold an iPhone 4.
Additionally, this runs counter to the recommendation to hold it differently or use a case, both of which would point strictly at a hardware - not software - problem.
Exactly what I think. Sure Apple can mask the antenna issue all they want through software manipulation, but the physical reception of the antenna will remain the same.
And what of all the poor suckers who truly believe this is all merely a problem with the algorythm used to display signal strength bars??
“Reception is absolutely definitely improved,” AnandTech wrote. “I felt like I was going places no iPhone had ever gone before. There’s no doubt in my mind this iPhone gets the best cellular reception yet, even though measured signal is lower than the 3GS."The question is reception. Is it good? Your own source says far better than the 3GS despite the chart of relative attenuation. Do you leave that out on purpose?
I think what they are saying is that some people are losing signal when they cup the phone, but they have 4 bars and don’t understand why they’d lose signal.
But in fact, with the phone cupped, the bars should be reading 0, because they aren’t getting signal.
I guess if the signal strength indicated that you had killed your signal, you’d use it to figure out how to hold the phone.
But they obviously can’t fix the antenna, and so they are stuck with “training” people to hold the phone “properly”.
Either that, or they are saying that in cases where it drops out because you hold the phone wrong, it’s because your signal was already low to begin with, but you didn’t know that because they were lying to you about how strong your signal was.
In any case, they screwed up the design of the phone, and can’t fix it now.