Tech ping please.
Looks like a new spin on the antenna issues.
PugetSoundSoldier has a pretty good response to this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2545716/posts#34
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.
Thank you, for-q-clinton, for the heads up... credit given where credit is due.
I appreciate it. Sorry I was not able to ping the list earlier.
Unfortunately I was getting cut on ... emergency oral surgery. (remember that dry socket? It got a lot worse... Not feeling too well right now.)