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pThe iPhone 4 has received it’s fair share of criticism (and lawsuits?) due to a design flaw where holding the phone a certain way causes dropped calls and lowered reception strength. Yesterday Steve Jobs said, a href=”http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/01/exclusive-conversation-with-steve-jobs-on-the-iphone-4-antenna-problems/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Genius+Report%29″”We’re working on it…”/a and today, the “Death Grip” problem is being acknowledged on Apple’s site as a “software calculation error.”/p

blockquoteOur formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place./blockquote

pApple goes on to say they used the same formula for past iPhones, but it’s only noticeable now because of the new antenna./p

pAlready have an iPhone 4 and want to reduce your Death Grip? You’re not alone. People around the web have been hard at work: some have a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/26/iphone-4-nail-polish-fix”painted clear nail polish/a around the phone, others have a href=”http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/24/can-black-electrical-tape-make-your-iphone-4-go-faster/”wrapped tape on the corners/a, a few have used a href=”http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/29/cute-cheap-iphone-4-mod-use-modeling-clay-on-the-corners/”Sugru/a, while the most audacious have a href=”http://www.crunchdot.com/does-adjusting-or-trimming-the-iphone-4s-micro-sim-fix-the-antenna-issue-probably-not/”taken a knife to the ports and modified their SIM cards/a. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures, but you could just buy a case./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/were_working_on_it__16868.asp”(more…)/a
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