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I wonder, since the issue only happens when a bare hand touches the bare metal, whether coating the metal with something non-conductive would be a workaround?

I've had a rubber skin on my 3G since the day I bought it and wouldn't have one without it. Does nothing to limit the functionality and sure helps when you drop it like I have...more than once!

> I've had a rubber skin on my 3G since the day I bought it and wouldn't have one without it. Does nothing to limit the functionality and sure helps when you drop it like I have...more than once!

Yeah, I've got a low-end cheap LG/Verizon phone (VX5500 series) that I love, but it slid out of my shirt pocked and landed in the driveway once too often, so for $5 I bought it a nice custom-fitted condom that keeps it from sliding around so much.

I can't believe Apple didn't coat the metal in the first place. Probably an aesthetic consideration, and in this case, the aesthetics caused an awful lot of bad press and unhappy customers.

20 posted on 06/30/2010 10:15:55 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)