My palm is pretty big, and when i fully cover my nokia 1100 cell phone, not a single bar of network is lost. Stop Covering up Apple, and admit that you guys committed a mistake.
Today they are built to be fashion accessoires, which naturally leads to different design trade-offs.
Sure, your 1100 may have the best reception of any cellphone ever produced. Sure, your battery may last 2 weeks under normal use.
But what does that help you in a real emergency, like when you urgently need to edit a video on the go?
(Electrical engineering textbooks should come with warning labels. "DANGER: once you understand how reality works, human psychology will occasionally give you migraines.")