I'll need one of these to make it through the comments on the next iPhone 4 article.

@Grindhouse Murders: I'm curious for your thoughts on my above comment.

@xd.Balls: I fail to see how this proves your point. You provided two statements:

@John Eusebio: Is this satire? September 30th is TWO AND A HALF MONTHS AWAY. And those of us who bother to research facts before making comments on the internet know that Apple said they were taking that time to see if there's an even better solution. If there isn't, they'll keep offering the cases after September 30.

@John Eusebio: The antenna design does not equate to the structure of the entire phone. I was speaking specifically about the antenna and internals.

@xd.Balls: Are you joking? Since when does anything have to be perfect to be better than its predecessor? And when did Apple say iPhone 4 or anything else it created was perfect? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.

@Grindhouse Murders: Exactly. How are companies supposed to innovate if they just accept the status quo? If Nokia itself had accepted the status quo, we wouldn't have internal antennas in the first place. Apple took a bigger risk and tried something new. There's a drawback, but in their opinion, the net gain was worth…

@Man 'O Mistry: People have made a case against the internal tension created with the new glass design on the front and the back, but nobody has ever questioned the structural integrity of the steel band (to my knowledge). It's the difference between the integrity of the antenna vs. the integrity of the overall phone,…

It's amusing that competitors are willing to poke fun in ads and blog posts but when confronted with the same issue in their phones, Apple is "dragging everyone else into the mess". And it's obvious Nokia doesn't prioritize physical design since it's willing to plop ugly stickers all over its phones telling you where…

@dgolant: That long? If your 61-word response is "half a paragraph", then my 155-word response to you is one and a quarter paragraphs. It doesn't take anyone above a third-grade reading level long to read and comprehend a little over a paragraph.

@dgolant: If you don't care to engage in discussion then don't bother responding. Nothing compels you to do so.

@holland6045: No, you're wrong. The sun and earth are 4.6 billion years old. Those of us who know math know that 4.6 is less than 5.

@baneyu: I'm having a bit of trouble following you but will do my best to refute your points as I understand them. I believe you are basing your assessments on inaccuracies that render my confusion irrelevant.

@dgolant: Re-read my response to you. Your example just proved my point. You haven't had an issue with AT&T but your cousin has. I said the only time I've had issues with an iPhone was when I was in areas of bad AT&T coverage. It's generally accepted that Manhattan is a bad coverage area (I believe this despite never…

@Stephen Bruner: I believe his exact responses were "don't hold it that way", which was flippant, and "it's not that big an issue", which is easier to say when you see it in the context he was seeing it in. I see it more as a quick response that wasn't really well thought out rather than something truly belittling. We…

@baneyu: I honestly rarely look at the signal strength unless I'm not getting data or I can't make a call. It's like the first line of troubleshooting. If everything's working, I don't bother thinking about it. So I can say that the signal meter algorithm really hasn't played much of a role in my perception and…

Wow... 5 billion light years away means this explosion started traveling toward us before the solar system formed...

@dgolant: The only times I've had a problem were in areas where AT&T had bad coverage. This new design allows iPhone 4 to hold calls and transmit data better in areas with less than optimal coverage. In the last three weeks I've visited seven states from Delaware to Massachusetts, so this isn't isolated to one…

@Luke: Please see the response I just wrote to baneyu.

@baneyu: The two claims are not mutually exclusive. I get reception on my iPhone 4 in areas where no other phones have gotten reception in the last decade. This is useful reception - meaning it holds calls and transmits data – in areas where I couldn't. I am not the only person to report this. Does this not qualify…