IPhone 4 is not the only phone on the market with Antenna issues

Question

Distraught over the issue that your iPhone 4 loses reception when handled?
Wish you had gone with some other smartphone now? So the iPhone 4 got reception issues. Did you know that these other phones have reception issues also when held?
HTC Droid Incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDE941PzQk
Nexus One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2g5J4qPp54
Nokia E71:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1gHDa7-X0
Nokia 6230:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_RP7Fn1w8Q
Nokia 6720:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7t75Uo6qQ
Now is the iPhone 4 so bad after all??? The issue blown in epic proportions when there are plenty other smartphones out there with similiar or same issues.

Answer 1

51Cards wrote:
The degree of problems between the iPhone4 and those examples are orders of magnitude different. As said most cell phones will see some dip in reception based on directionality and how the phone is being held. However when within 2 days of launch 155 videos appear on Youtube displaying the exact same problem, many of them reproducing it by using a single finger to touch the 'hot spot' while the phone is otherwise untouched, that is far more than a small reception issue. When this also happens on the first phone to use a wrap around exposed metal antenna then you're right smack in the arena iof serious design flaw, not minor reception issue.
Could this huge negative publicity be because nobody really cares about other phones with similar problems while Apple sells 1.7 million copies in few days?
Also one man's serious design flaw is another man's minor nuisance.
Here's another juicy bit that you can google yourself. Nokia decided to poke fun at Apple's expense and bragged on its corporate blog that you can hold latest greatest Nokia however you like. They almost immediately had to eat crow when it was pointed to Nokia's own User Manual that gives advise on how to hold the phone in order not to have reception problems.