I guess Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field has me in its sights. I really didn't want to believe that the design of the iPhone 4 could be in any way, shape, or form flawed. The thing is a beauty, as far as gizmos go. But, according to some iPhone 4 owners, if you covered a small lower-left section of the phone with your hand you lost reception. Calls got dropped, Apple devotees (now $600 poorer) broke out in hives, mass-hysteria followed, etc.
Steve Jobs (in a way that really makes we want to have a beer with him) told people "just don't hold the phone that way". Then it became a software problem with how the signal bars were being displayed. My iPhone 4 doesn't come in until later this week, so I had no way of knowing if this was real or some Andriod propaganda-conspiracy lead by commandant Sergey (Mikhaylovich) Brin himself.
Turns out it's real. Consumer Reports engineers were able to confirm that this is in fact a problem. (not wanting to be outdone by CSI:Detroit ... the testers whipped out their RF isolation chambers, cell tower emulators, white lab coats ... the works)
Oddly enough, the second half of the report praises the 300+ great things about the iPhone 4. So I guess I'll just Not hold the phone that way.
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