Don't Hold it like that..

The Iphone 4 as been out approximatly one month and its huge presence in the media, on line and in the press as not been al gleaming.

The antenna-gate saga as its been coined keeps rising to the fore.

Lets forget that the phone is a stunning design, it does look and feel wonderful in your hand. Lets  for get Apple change dthe interface world single hand-idly and almost over night with the original interface. Lets also forget that the platform although remains the most stable feature even if due to apples Sith lord like over control of releases.  But actually lets not forget any of these things.  The Iphone is great for all these things.

Until recently it was also one of the best phones. It as a simple interface for calls, good solid reception, a contacts book that can be updated from several sources and was easy to navigate.

Then the saga begins. Apple designed a phone with an external antenna. Every smart phone company and regular phone company has done or tested this and decided its a bad idea. Apple stuck to their guns or as is more widely totted around the press Steve Jobs stuck to his wants.

The result is:

an excellent looking phone, that functions as everything you want out of an iphone, but is more prone to drop calls in weak signal areas. 

Now i'd like you to look at that last line, its not the sensationalism or attempt to put it in black and white that others have done. its simply a statement of what it is. The phone looks and works brilliantly, the apps and functionality are still the same. But if you are in a weak signal area and hold teh phone too hard in just the right spot you may drop a call. Not always and no guarantee.
And seemingly not in the UK half as much as in the States! or so it seems.

Apples resonce after a few week was to bow to media pressure with out ever admitting it various tech blogs, vlogs and journalists had been asking Apple to man up and just give away a bumper/cover. Apple responded with a live conference/broadcast you can watch it here if you were living in a cave.
The short of it was:

We screwed up but were not sorry
Every one else has the same problem look
We did not think you'ld buy our phone as much a a fashion statement 
Were going to give you a cover because that will solve the problem

I'm not a apple fan boy I'm a technologist, I like Tech.  I like tech enough I'm fed up of hearing about the iphone, antenna gate and the jobs announcement.
So go get you free cover and be happy. Now can the rest of the tech world get on with some News...