So Consumer Reports has confirmed the iPhone 4 antennae issue for areas with weak signals (i.e. NY, SFO, etc...). I've never had an issue in the South Bay (although some have told me there are big coverage gaps around Silicon Valley) with weak signal but this is, at best, a clutzy move by Apple engineers.

I'm not on this boat not because I'm some kind of Apple fanboi (although I have had mostly great experience with the products and services relative to PC) but because I'm an AT&T fanboi. Thats right, not popular but its true. They've given me coverage in areas that I would have never thought for years and years. I've had them as a carrier since 1995 even before it was AT&T in my area (at the time it was a CLEC called CellularOne) and the network at the time was analog!

Consumer Reports basically says the phone kicks ass in every way but they really screwed the pooch on this antenna thing. But just buy a case and you're fine (seriously, who's not buying a case of some kind? Really? Be honest...).

Yes - "don't hold it that way" is an arrogant, dick of an answer but guess what....Steve Jobs is an arrogant dick. He's a billionaire and makes some pretty sweet products so I guess he gets to be an arrogant dick. Since I don't have to deal with him on a day to day basis or anything I'm not about to lose sleep over the fact that he's an arrogant dick.

So if you don't want a sweet phone because the antenna, without any sort of case, can lose connections in weak signal areas more often than some other phones, then skip the iPhone 4. If you want a device that helps you run your life, online and off, then buy the phone and a case.

Sorry, I just don't see what the big problem is. But then again, I also never cried like a little b**** about AT&T coverage.