Oh, it would probably be called a design flaw if your meaty hand full of water comes in contact or is wrapped around the antenna.
pretty much. my wife has the iPhone 4 and she doesn't even know there is a big hubbub going on over the reception of her phone. she hasn't experienced it yet and the bumper she ordered arrived yesterday so i suspect she'll never know that her phone is defective. ;~)
I find it hard to believe that nobody has yet written a signal strength meter for the phone antenna showing the signal in decibels updated in real time?
Would give you a much better view of what your signal is actually doing, instead of the silly bars, which themselves are only updated every few seconds or so.
**edit - ha, I found it, someone give this a try!
Dial *3001#12345#* to bring up the iPhone's Field Test tool, which will give you information about towers and signal strength, EDGE network, and more.
Edited by SgtBaxter (07/13/1011:11 AM)
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That won't dial on my 3Gs. But if I get rid of the last asterisk... then i get a spinning circle and then the message "USSD Test response. Hi!" and the option to dismiss.
Well, for one thing it's a programming code for CDMA and TDMA >> >handsets. If you have a GSM handset it won't do anything for you. >> >
The “Death Grip” that drops bars when you wrap your fingers around the lower antenna is real, but it may not have much effect on performance. It’s not the number of bars that count, says tech expert Ted Landau, but the decibels per milliwatt (dBm). “FWIW, the number of bars on my iPhone vary a lot — depending on how I hold phone — but actually dbms stay within about 10 unit range,” he said on Twitter. (To see dBm on older iPhones — it doesn’t work in iOS 4 — type *3001#12345#* in the Phone app’s Keypad screen and tap Call button. The dBm appears where bars were. Tap to toggle.)
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