Careful How You Hold the iPhone—It Can Lose Reception

Users complain of weird tech glitch if you touch antenna
By sean brady
Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT
Promoted on Newser Jun 24, 2010 12:46 PM CDT
iphone 4 loses reception by just holding it?
Piotr Kubiak of Oakland, Ill., shows off his new Apple iPhone 4.   (AP)

When you hold the iPhone in your hands and touch the outside antenna band in two spots, it can drop reception (or at least lose bars). Put the phone down and your bars return. Gizmodo has the details of this odd glitch along with reader-submitted videos of the problem. (A rubber case seems to solve it.) Read the full article. More info at Wired.
(More iPhone 4 stories.)

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