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"Remember Antennagate? It's back \u2014 this time on Verizon. Stalwart reviews magazine Consumer Reports just announced it will not list the Verizon iPhone 4 among its recommended smartphones because holding it in a \"specific but quite natural way can cause dropped calls.\"\nShortly after the launch of the iPhone 4 on AT&amp;T, reports began to emerge that the phone would lose signal and drop calls if held in a certain way \u2014 the so-called \"death grip.\" Apple called a press conference, gave its iPhone 4 customers free bumpers that helped solve the issue and announced it was largely AT&amp;T's fault.\nIf anything, this news is worse than the first Antennagate. Apple has had time to solve the problem and avoid another PR nightmare. This comes straight from a highly trusted source; the flaw was discovered through rigorous lab tests, rather than anecdotal evidence. There have been few complaints so far on the part of users, so Apple \u2014 which is trying to focus on next week's highly anticipated iPad 2 launch \u2014 may not have been expecting this distraction. And one of the top reasons AT&amp;T iPhone owners have given for switching to Verizon is the relative quality of voice calls.\n\"The phone performs superbly in most other respects, and using the iPhone 4 with a case can alleviate the problem,\" Consumer Reports wrote in a blog post. But it couldn't ignore the death grip problem, which is caused by a gap in the casing and is not found on any other smartphone the magazine tested:\n\"As with our tests of the AT&amp;T iPhone 4, putting a finger across one particular gap \u2014 the one on the lower left side \u2014 caused performance to decline. Bridging this gap is easy to do inadvertently, especially when the phone is in your palm, which might readily and continuously cover the gap during a call,\" the publication says.\nThe problem only appears to occur if the cell signal strength isn't at its strongest, but that is a problem you're going to run into, even on a relatively reliable network like Verizon.\nAre you a Verizon iPhone 4 user? Have you experienced mysterious dropped calls? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2011/02/25/verizon-iphone-4-antennagate/>