Posted on 06/24/2010 1:10:28 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception. Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.
We're not sure if he's doing something particularly weird, like holding the metal antenna in such a way that it's shorting out. But it is strange. Or, it could be just a bug in the software, showing no bars and no reception even when you do have reception. But, he does hold the phone with the glass, and it doesn't have this reception issue.
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Pardon, my bad! I read that you said lower reception uses less battery. Sorry, you are, of course, correct. Bad reception drains the battery!
My apologies.
My son got his new iphone yesterday, he has no case for it yet...and has had no problems whatsoever. He traded up from a first generation iphone, and loves the new one!
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