Now I read that the good folks at AppleCare basically give the same answer for ‘grip if death’ issue that we heard from the beginning, either hold it differently (sorry lefties) or get a case.  Sigh.

Really.  I starting to buy into the movement that Apple should offer a case to all iphone users who request one since this asking someone to hold the phone a certain way is simply not an answer.  Still, will be interesting to see how this update will change how the iphone reception issue shows itself.

Seems like it may be neither based on what I have heard so far… based on how you hold the phone.

In general, the antenna is bigger and on the outside of the phone.  So right off you would think that reception would be better, and thus fewer dropped calls unless holding your hard around the antenna causes issues, which I wrote about a few days back on my post called ‘Will the iphone 4 with the new antenna layout reduce dropped calls?’ and its seems my concerns around attenuation have been confirmed with this video that went out yesterday.  (video at the bottom of the post)

Now here is the fun part.  Steve Jobs answered back an email on this subject and he’s replay was basically, do  not hold it in a way to reduces reception or put it in a case.  Sigh.  Great.  So I have to wonder… did anyone TEST for this?