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> I have read several articles now along with some of Apple's open letter. After using my IP4 for a few days now there does seem to a problem.
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> If I hold the phone normally in my left hand then the signal bars drop slowly to zero. Move my hand and it gains a bar a second to full strength again. we are in a good 3G area so full strength is pretty normal. Apple's stance is that it is mainly an algorithm problem. That would make sense except for some recent dropped calls. I was talking to my son and got 3 beeps and the call dropped. That certainly didn't happen before with the old 3GS.
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> Now I am not jumping up and down and throwing a temper tantrum over this. I really like the new phone but also want to fix this problem.

1. The problem is real, at least in a large subset of iPhone 4's, if not all of them.

2. That said, the iPhone 4 has better cellular reception overall than the 3G or the 3GS. And better connectivity speeds.

3. There is a "logical disconnect" between the "reception bars" and the actual signal strength, in that "a full 5 bars" may already be down 50 db, and by the time you lose just one more bar, to 4, the signal strength may be down over 90 db.
See <http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/30/iphone-4-bars-to-signal-strength-mapped-antenna-issue-partially-explained/>

4. An Apple "bumper", or essentially ANY case, cures the problem.

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