iPhone 4 Dropped Signal / Reception Issue Solved by Steve Jobs

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Well I’ll just have to pat myself on the back today for beating Apple to the punch when suggesting how to fix your new iPhone 4 dropped signal / reception issues. You know, the iPhone 4 is really proof of some really cool engineering, but it looks like those engineers forgot that humans must use the device.

Humans have a body that happens to interfere with the way things work around it. Those two clever antennas seem to lose their focus as soon as our skin comes in prolonged contact with both of them and turn the iPhone 4 into a very hot iPod touch. Did Apple experience such problems when testing the new device? Well, probably they didn’t since they lost so many devices a few months ago.

Or probably they did and that’s why they came up with those rubber bands which they introduced during the WWDC 2010 official iPhone 4 keynote – they call them bumpers.

Steve Jobs, like always, has responded to an Apple customer that was asking about these reception issues. What did he say? Simple, to the point as always:

“Just avoid holding it that way.”

Again, hat tip to myself for telling you not to hold your phone in your left hand anymore.

And here’s a more official statement:

Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.

These answers will go around the world pretty fast and quite a few customers will shake their hands in disbelief! Really Apple? That’s all you can come up with, out of the box like that? An ingenious solution that, itself, represents a major problem? Why not move those damned antennas around so we never get to touch them in the first place?

Bumpers it is then…

Oh and I bet so many people will drop the iPhone 4 while trying not to touch the antennas. You know, and that’s when the iPhone breaks! It just seems as if Apple is asking for a class action suit, isn’t it?