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It did work just fine, it actually had the best antenna of any phone on the market at the time - dramatic improvement on the previous models. Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2

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> Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones.

My definition of 'superior' doesn't involve having to hold a phone a particular way for it to make a call.

You didn't have to hold it a particular way - you had to avoid holding it a particular way. I had one for 2 years and didn't experience dropped calls beyond expected norms.

It lost signal when held that way. It didn't drop calls. As explained in the anandtech article, they couldn't get it to drop a call once.

Curious: What happens when, during a call, you lose signal and don't recover it? If the call doesn't drop, does it just stay connected, waiting for the signal to come back?

I think the point is that it wasn't ever a complete loss of signal. Signal strength drops a little, maybe the baseband turns up its gain and burns a little more power, and the call stays connected.

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