But it makes them feel cool and loved by Steve. What else culd macfans want in life?

If you want and Iphone be my guest. I considered buying one but the real cost was the same as the 52 inch 1080p TV. I figured I had a better use for the money than buying an Iphone.

I surf the web from a computer and use a trac phone to make calls.

Other people with more money to burn can do what they want.

Here is a video of hands not blocking the reception on an iPhone.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0NkLqh3nU

But by all means, maybe you got one of the iPhones with the magical hand penetrating radio waves.

It does seem unlikely that people’s HANDS are blocking the signal… unless they have faraday hands…

#4, unclench a little, my man. Apple isn’t for you, that’s fine. Enjoy the fruits of their presence (do you really think M$ would have done half of what they’ve done the past 20 years without meaningful competition?) and don’t worry your little head about everyone else’s phone. You’ll be ok. I promise.

Actually, on the iPhone 3g, the call dropping is a function of the antenna on the phone. Basically, if you hold the phone intuitively like you would if you were to hold it up to your ear, you have just covered up the antenna with your hand, it loses bars and drops the call. I have adopted a dainty way to hold my iPhone so it doesn’t drop calls.

I think the bigger story is how this design failure of the iPhone has been ignored by the tech media. Indeed when the iPhone 3g first launched there were a bunch of stories exonerating the iPhone 3g antenna design, and one notable test carried by Engadget and Roughly Drafted ilk that ignored the hand placement problem.

An even more compelling aspect of this story is how the brand activists have managed to corrupt the search engine indexes so that it is hard to find anything out about this design failure. Curiously, the index problem is much worse on a search engine that shares a member of the board of directors with Apple.