Remember the last “big” time that the public was concerned about iPhone reception?
Apple: "... simple and surprising."
“Well, there was that time that…”
“I think there was ‘something’ about– er…”
“Um, yeah, I think there was something…”
So, folks, if you’ll recall (or dive into our archives here), there were the iPhone 3G reception issues that tracked back to issues with firmware installed on those smartphones.
So, now, about two years later, with the latest iPhone 4 release, there are those “new” problems with reception, that very-early reports about the problem have cited being hardware-related… in particular, the steel band antenna that serves as the smartphone’s binding border.
Now, as many of you can attest, while you may have heard about people having trouble with their iPhone 4′s, you may have not experienced any issues whatsoever. So, if it was hardware problem as alleged during the previous 3G reception problem, shouldn’t everybody with an iPhone 4 be experiencing the same difficulties? Curious, right? And if you are one of those unlucky souls with a flaky iPhone 4, why are some of your buddies with iPhone 4′s doing well?
But Apple [AAPL] sheds some light on what it considers to be the real problem, in a letter to the public, as well as its plans for a fix.
So, now it becomes a waiting game, as the afflicted and the media (and yes, even other curious parties, such as Javamancy) wait for Apple to reveal its fix to the world.
And, in a related question: Are signal bars the solution to the world’s ills? Ask Conan O’Brien! 
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