The latest iPhone 4 signal reception news is interesting:
First off, a Danish professor, Gert Frølund Pedersen, who is an antenna specialist at Aalborg University, aired his concerns about the iPhone 4’s signal reception quality two weeks before the phone was released, on June 10th. He’d stated: “The human tissue will in any event have an inhibitory effect on the antenna. Touch means that a larger portion of antenna energy becomes heat and lost.” This makes you wonder if Apple had hired any antenna specialists at all before indulging in the “really cool” engineering required to make the external antennas.
Second, Steve Jobs replied to the one of the most recent iPhone 4 signal reception emails to him by once again dismissing the issue, while at the same time, hinting that a fix was forthcoming! “There is no reception issue. Stay tuned.”
Lastly, the above titbit, plus various rumours around the net, seem to point toward the fact that iOS 4 may (very) soon receive an update to remove the signal reception problem from the software side, instead an absurd fix of holding the phone differently, or a hardware ‘fix’ like the bumpers/cases, or even a product recall. The new iOS 4 version has been christened iOS 4.0.1 by those who believe it’s in the pipeline.