Are lefties being left out in the cold again? Claims are surfacing and confirmed by Apple that if you are holding your iPhone the wrong way, for instance in your left hand, you may not get the reception you expect. So stop holding it that way!
We reported earlier about problems with the iPhones 4, but now according to Gizmodo, Apple has pretty much admitted that you should not hold your iPhone 4 in your left hand.
Here are some examples posted on a tumblr site from Apple's very own advertising, keynote, etc. showing people holding their iPhone 4 the wrong way -- in their left hands including Steve Jobs again in the first image below.
If you are left handed then you might consider purchasing Apple's bumper accessory or a case that fully encloses your iPhone 4 separating you from your iPhone 4 and its two antennas.
Dogpedic
June 28, 2010 at 2:53am
Nobody really knows what the new iPhone will have. Apple hasn't released any specs on updates nor when new version will be released.
Dogpedic
mplutka
June 26, 2010 at 5:31am
I think that left handed persons are clearly in advantage here, too.
And btw, Ned Flanders knows how to hold his iPhone4:
http://www.cytrus.de/iphone4spiel.html
im.a.mac
June 25, 2010 at 12:59pm
I think it works like this, I am right handed, I hold the iPhone in my right hand and manipulate the screen and home button with the thumb of my right hand. Now if I'm holding it in my left hand, I do the same, manipulate with the thumb on my left hand. So yah, if you hold it with your left hand your palm will make contact with the area the antenna is and you will have less reception. Sorry but the iPhone screen is way too small for me to use both hands to txt in portrait, now landscape has enough room to use both hands and your palm does not make contact with the antenna area and you should be fine. "Sorry NED FLANDERS, no iPhones is the LEFTORIUM". Of course Apple is too arrogant to admit a design flaw and would rather blame consumer.
jchaac
June 25, 2010 at 10:36am
Isn't it the other way around though? I mean, I am left handed and therefore my left hand is the most precise one. At least for texting, I will hold the iPhone with my right hand and type with my left hand (the hand I am more skilled with).
Of course, when calling I might use the left hand but as soon as I need to push a "button" I will switch hands and, considering before calling I need to "push" a button, I will most likely use the right hand to call.
If I am right, then the problem is for the right handed people.
