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It was a nothingburger. Apple sold the same GSM iPhone 4 for three years with no design changes and nothing else was said about it three months later.

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It was not nothing. The phone stopped working if the user held it naturally in their hand. I had one. Reception completely cut out.

If it were that big of deal, don’t you think Apple would have been forced to recall it and definitely couldn’t keep selling it for 3 years. True they did redo the antenna for the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4. But they never bothered to back port the changes to the GSM one.

I also had a GSM iPhone 4.

Compare that to how quickly they ran away from the shitty Intel modems when they were selling some made by Intel and some made by Samsung (?)

Apple offered a free case to make the problem go away. My iPhone just had trouble typing Apple and free in the same sentence.

Well, there was a software change to smooth out how the bars would display.. https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...

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