I don’t see the free case being a solution simply because the life of these bumpers are not the same as that of the phone. So we need a permanent fix for this issue and not a free bumper. In a way Apple has owned up to the problem, by giving free cases. If they really feel that they are not wrong and the phone is perfectly imperfect like the other phones, then why would they give a case also free, why bear the extra burden for the case.
With all these videos Apple is only making more problems.
I wonder why there is no LG phones, is it because LG provides the screens for their iPad or is LG having the best antenna design???

However, with almost every other cellphone out there – you practically have to wrap your hand around the area of the phone where the antenna is to get this effect. In most cases, it’s a fairly unnatural way to hold your phone, although I’m sure some people do hold their phones that way. In the case of the EVO, they cleverly put the antenna at the top of the phone, which means you’d really have to be holding it oddly to have this happen.

With the iPhone 4, however, Apple made a surprisingly simple and obvious mistake – they put the antenna around the frame – and to separate their two antennae, they put a small gap. When you short the gap with your skin – the antennae are compromised to the point where they can be completely ineffective – causing all signal loss. By putting the gap where they did – unless you hold the phone by your fingertips in just the right way – you can easily cause this to happen.

The two situations simply aren’t the same.

And worse, Apple could have prevented this in multiple ways – just flipping the frame over would have helped. Putting the seam along the top edge rather than on the side would have done it. Coating the metal in plastic would have worked as would have making the gap larger.

Those videos posted by Apple are nonsense.

In normal use, nobody would ever hold any of those phones in the way that Apple does in the videos. It’s simply not natural to squeeze the phone.

By contrast, the “death touch” really is the natural way of holding the phone. That’s why it’s such a huge issue with the iPhone.

So, obviously no other phone or manufacturer suffers from similar issues and all of Apple’s claims are bogus.

This also becomes clear when you look at the dropped call statistics. AT&T claims a dropped call rate of 1.44% for all of its phones. According to Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4 drops almost one more call per 100 than the iPhone 3GS. Compare that to the usually less than two dropped calls per 100 for any other phone – it’s insane.

That being said, Apple could have easily won this game by taking the high road and saying ‘Yep, we made a mistake – here’s how we fix it.’ but rather took the low road by blaming AT&T, then the algorithm for bars (really – it took four generations of this phone to figure that out?) and then finally by ‘proving’ that all cellphones have this problem only to demonstrate this by showing an entirely different problem that simply doesn’t have the same impact.