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Re:Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video by watty on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:49AM (#1543738)
I think it's informative to know that all phones lose signal when held certain ways but their method just seems childish.

I'd rather see them report bandwidth loss when held or a video showing that some phones can't make calls when held due to dropping below a threshold (iPhone).

Re:Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video by KirinDave on Saturday July 24, 2010 @11:18AM (#1543804)
I would too.

But I don't think most people would take to that. For the vast majority of iPhone 4 users, the death grip problem is not as significant as those "touch with one finger to kill" videos (which, I confess I am still having a hard time believing).

The complaint itself is essentially childish: “Apple does almost the same thing everyone else does! They're lame! #lolrecall!” I'm not sure a mature counter-strategy would actually be effective in the face of that. Especially given how incredibly invested into phones people seem to be getting these days.