<story><title>Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4</title><url>http://www.antennasys.com/antennasys-blog/2010/6/24/apple-iphone-4-antennas.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doron</author><text>A comment at techcrunch is priceless&lt;p&gt;&quot;It&apos;s not a design flaw. Steve is just trying to bring gentility and good manners to mobile phone usage. The correct way to hold an iPhone 4 is with the thumb and index finger on either side of the phone, while extending the pinky outward as if holding a fine china cup (the pinky will also act as a supplemental antenna). Once the user is holding the phone like a Regency dandy, he will naturally tend to behave like one, showing the world what a well-mannered chap he is. Pure genius. &quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4</title><url>http://www.antennasys.com/antennasys-blog/2010/6/24/apple-iphone-4-antennas.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonfunk</author><text>It&apos;s a somewhat reasonable account (notably by an iPhone owner), though I remain skeptical (i.e., not trusting either side).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve had an iPhone 4 for two days now, and I have yet to be able to reproduce the problem; I even tried licking my finger and wrapping it around the bottom left corner, making sure to connect both antennas.  I couldn&apos;t get it to drop even one bar.&lt;p&gt;This is not at all to say that it&apos;s not a real issue, but the sensationalism belies how little we know about it so far.  Of course, people are going to delight in exploiting any chink in Apple&apos;s armor, especially today.</text></comment>