AnandTech avoids the current trend, continues to report on iPhone 4 antenna "issue" with real analysis.

Gotta love the guys over at AnandTech. During this ridiculous trend of "piling on" from many of the news sources & blogs, AnadTech has been consistently looking at this "issue" with a keen analytical eye and have conducted some of the best testing I've seen anyone report (including Consumer Reports).

This follow-up post from them just goes to show that this issue has been blown-up larger than it really is due to a faulty signal level indicator, which leads people to believe that they are loosing more signal than they really are when holding the iPhone with the ridiculously named "death grip". Is it an issue? Well, people can definitely make the antenna attenuate by holding it a certain way. But overall, the iPhone 4's antenna design has been leading to better reception for most users. This is based on a full week of reading numerous blog posts from actual users who are now claiming that they are receiving calls where they were unable to receive them before with previous phones.

I, like everyone else, am looking forward to how Apple will handle this issue. But I hope more people will make an effort to read AnadTech's post and get a better idea of exactly how much of an issue this really has turned out to be. The iPhone 4 is flat out the best iPhone released to date, with better reception, an industry-leading screen, and much more speed. It would be a shame if this issue ended up distracting everyone from all of the benefits of owning the phone. The "Pros" definitely outweigh the "Cons".

Check out AnadTech's post here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-apples-ios-41-signal-fix