Steve Jobs Comments On iPhone 4 Reception Issues, Says There is None

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Founded back in 1997 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Apple has come a far way from the days of the Apple II. Back then, Apple was regarded as a runner up in the home computing world with Microsoft instead stealing most of the shine with Windows. Now, Apple has surpassed Microsoft in market value and has some of the fastest selling technologically based products on the market today.

Seeing how just about every product of Apple’s proceeds to either sell-out tremendously fast, crash a server or two, or all of the above, it’s quite obvious that there would be a considerable amount of hype surrounding and there has. Ever since the iPhone 4 was first leaked by Gizmodo Apple fanboys everywhere have been soaking up every bit of information about Apple’s latest handset that they can.

Launching on June 24th with pre-orders on June 15th, Apple’s iPhone 4 managed to crash not only Apple’s servers, but AT&T’s, as well due to massive pre-orders. Some consumers received their devices as early as June 22nd with some pre-orders getting canceled and others getting delayed until early July.

Whatever the case may be, when purchasing any product with such hype, you expect said product to live up to the hype which the iPhone 4 arguably has been, and arguably has not been. The newest iPhone is essentially just an upgraded version of the 3GS so it wins there, but one thing is has been receiving a lot of bad press about is its antenna. Announced at WWDC as an amazing new feature by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the exterior band acting as an antenna has given the phone more problems than praise.

If you’ve been following the phone at all you’ll know that if you position your grip correctly, you can force it to lose reception and drop calls. Previously, Steve Jobs has said changing the grip would remedy the problem but it seems he has now retracted that statement.

When e-mailed again by an iPhone 4 user regarding the reception issue, Steve Jobs responded with the following statement:

There is no reception issue. Stay Tuned.

Could this possible mean that the issue is actually software related and not hardware related like previously thought? I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.