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Alex White

26 June, 2010

Jobs has replied that iPhone 4 reception problem is overhyped and is a non-problem. It means, as he says, it is just a software issue which shows network bars dropping to one or zero. There have been no reports of iPhone 4 call drops because of the s

STEVE JOBS, CEO Apple Inc., has replied to some queries via mail which have been hot topics of debate after iPhone 4 release date.

iPhone 4 reception problems along with yellow spot on the bottom left of the iPhone 4 running on iOS 4 have been reported all over the web.

Jobs has replied that iPhone 4 reception problem is overhyped and is a non-problem. It means, as he says, it is just a software issue which shows network bars dropping to one or zero. There have been no reports of iPhone 4 call drops because of the steel band issue.

He also said wireless iPhone syncing will arrive in some near future before saying the yellow spot of iPhone 4 are nothing serious and will vanish in some time. It is a mere packaging issue.

iPhone wireless sync was a feature that has been demanded by iPhone users for quite long. A developer developed an app for iPhone wireless syncing but was rejected by Apple.

Earlier, a tech blog site Gizmodo, which posted the photos of a leaked iPhone 4 prototype earlier this month, reports some users getting reception problems. While the steel band of iPhone 4 is touched by two fingers it shows all the network bars vanishing. If one touches the steel band with other hand, preferably the left and bottom sides together there is a certainty of signal disappear, or drop by three or four bars.

The problem is being so widely reported that Gizmodo has managed to add 16 videos of the phenomenon, along with many, many user reports. The problem is also repeatable, making it look like a lot more than simple coincidence.

Professor Gert Frolund Pedersen of the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University says:

Human tissues will in any case have an inhibitory effect on the antenna. Touch means that a larger portion of the antenna energy turns into heat and lost. This makes the antenna less efficient to send and receive radio signals.