From the Daily Telegraph in Australia:
I’ve been using the iPhone 4 for nearly a week to make calls, send and receive emails and surf the web from various places around the city and suburbs.
Is the antenna an issue? No it’s not. Have I dropped calls? No, I have not.
Have I noticed an impact on the device’s performance? No.
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Is the iPhone 4 an improvement over the iPhone 3GS? Absolutely.
This article also included the following sentence:
If reception is an issue where you live you will probably experience difficulties no matter what smartphone you use.
which essentially says to me that Apple should not be saying “We’re as bad as other smartphones” but rather “We’re just as good”. The current slew of videos showing that other smartphones have reception issues just ring of sour grapes.
I am looking forward to testing a iPhone 3GS versus an iPhone 4 next week, both on the 3 network.