LOL
If other phones drop calls why the hand wringing over Apple?
Simple, because Apple has enemies. For all the reasons we have repeatedly expressed. Why do you spend your precious few minutes of life on this Earth bashing this one group of people? Why the hate? Why the rage? What is the motivation and gain? I am here to REFUTE the hate. If the hate stops, I will just share some fun comments with some friends on a mutual topic of interest. Coffee chat.
But you create threads, search out for any conceivable flaw, and then ride it to absurdity, with wild predictions of doom and "FATAL FLAWS" and predicting billions of dollars in losses. You are never right. It is always either NOTHING, or much ado ABOUT nothing, or the splinter in Apple's eye while you ignore the planks in your eye.
Why?
Only one thing makes sense. You gain personal emotional satisfaction on the alienation, harassment, intimidation, and general bullying of others. You found some kids on the play ground who will cry when you act out, so for the attention, you act out in this over the top, aggressive and relentlessly obsessive hatred.
Which is why I scorn you so and call you a sick dog. There is no other purpose for you heavy handed vitriol.
Perhaps it's your general ignorance of all things technical coming through, but maybe this well-written technical report on the iPhone 4 antenna problem will sink in a bit.
Here's a summary, if the words and graphs are too difficult for you to understand:
Touching a bare antenna is bad. The loss of signal with the iPhone 4 is a lot worse than other phones. When you make it so you cannot touch the bare antenna, then it's about as bad as all other phones.
Sorry, the signal loss from holding an iPhone 4 is MUCH WORSE than any other unit, from independent testing. I know that crushes your spirit, because that means Steve Jobs' promise of unicorns and rainbows turned out to be lizards and thunderstorms, but it's OK - a bumper will solve your problem.
There is no hate or rage here, just a cold, critical, unblinking look at fanbois and fangurls trying to twist reality and actually LIE (yes, you're lying with your actions) about other phones. Apple proved they were rookies in this field, and they are trying to spin. Only Kool-Aid drinkers buy the spin.
Have a big glass of it, Rachel, Steve's buying all you can chug!
PS: if you want to talk hate, look at the invectives and names you're spewing. You're a font of anger and hatred that makes Jesus cry!
Just like Apple has their zealots and bots that think they can do no wrong and defend them at every turn.
I really don't know why the apple zealots continue to defend the iPhone 4 screwed up antenna design. Steve Jobs has finally admitted that it's screwed up and not perfect. I could understand defending them when they were saying people were holding it wrong and when they said it's no worse/different than any other cell phone.
So if you wern't informed in basic physics of antenna's you may have bought those first two answers. But those who know anything about antennas knew it was a load of BS. And sure enough when Steve Jobs came out and said they can't change the laws of physics and that the phone isn't perfect and has issues...here's a free rubberband to help avoid the flawed antenna design. Well at that point it's game over for defending the design. It's time to move on to defending their reputation and say...Hey Apple fixed it as soon as they could once they confirmed what was really happening.
Defending the shoddy design is just silly at this point. I can see wanting to downplay it if you wanted to keep your iPHone 4 and believe there isn't an issue. Personally you should return it because in September there appears to be a real fix for this and you'll be stuck with the beta version.