It’s almost like a pick-your-poison situation. While the iPhone 4 is a beautifully designed piece of consumer electronics and is capable of excellent things, its novel antenna design has proven to be problematic for some users. I mentioned in a few comments that the issue hits lefties (or people that use their phones with their left hands) more than their right-handed counterparts. The Los Angeles Times explained why this is the case:
Apple redesigned the phone so the steel frame around the handset doubles as its antenna. The left side of the frame is used to broadcast a cellular signal; the right side is for other bands, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
As a result, people who tend to hold their phone in the left hand may be plagued by the signal problems more than those who hold the phone in their right hand.
As a lefty, I’m kind of bummed about the whole thing. I can take solace in the fact that righties making Skype calls through WiFi should have issues too. Ha ha!!!
@ Ray
You're a lefty?
@N8R For most things, yes. I play guitar righty. I box righty, but I'm all left jab and hook.
@ Ray
I can understand why you play guitar righty. Lefty guitars are more rare and tend to be more expensive.
I can see why you'd box righty too.
That's awesome. Why didn't I pick up on this earlier? Or did I, and I just forgot?
I'm a righty but I've been known to hold the phone with my left hand. Especially while texting. Honestly I got the trick to work by putting my hand in an L shape and covering the left and bottom, but with practical use the service has actually been better than any of my iPhones. I'll probably get a case though. From what I hear the glass isn't quite as durable as they hyped