iPhone 4's signal strength drops if ... touched

Am I the only one who’s ever read the warnings that come with electronic products, saying that anything with a radio should not be handled by the antenna? Apparently so. iPhone 4 users are reporting en masse that their new handsets suffer a significant loss of signal strength when the phone’s antenna is touched with bare skin. Unfortunately, it is pretty much mbt shoes sale impossible to use a caseless iPhone 4 without touching the antenna, because the steel band that runs around the entire outside of the case is the antenna. To avoid touching it you’d somehow have to pinch the front and back of the phone between two fingers. The phenomenon is so widespread that it may be nearly universal. Gizmodo has over a dozen videos showing the phenomenon, and tech blogs from Wired to Engadget are up in arms about it. What’s going on is a bit of a mystery. Surely Apple tested the iPhone 4 before releasing it, and with a problem this serious, testers should have noticed the issue. (Then again, iOS 4 multitasking got out of the door without being fully baked, so who knows.) On the other hand, beta iPhone 4 units were famously kept in a mock iPhone 3GS sleeve, so perhaps only limited discount mbt shoes testing was done with bare units. Wired offers a semblance of an explanation as to why this phenomenon is happening: When you touch a TV antenna, the picture changes because, in a nutshell, your body becomes part of the antenna construct. The mystery is that with a TV, touching the antenna usually improves the picture, whereas with the iPhone 4, it makes things worse. My best guess is that the radio frequencies used for TV are more conducive to the human body than a cell phone’s frequencies are. Apple has also acknowledged some bugs with the way the phone detects and manages signal strength. It says those bugs will be fixed soon, so hopes are high that a firmware update mbt schuhe will solve the problem. Meanwhile, it appears that adding a case to the phone will improve or eliminate the issue, and Lord knows there are plenty of those on the market already.