https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/25/ipho...
That fixed the actual problem in hardware - the software fix just made things look better.
All my iPhones, not just the 4, regularly dropped calls with AT&T until I switched to Verizon.
The software fix made things look worse. The "bug" was that the number of bars was misleadingly high.
Not sure about Apple, but on Android, individual carriers can set the number-to-bars thresholds. Two otherwise-identical signals could be represented as a different number of bars depending on your particular carrier: https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/signal-strength
1. I seriously doubt Apple was accidentally displaying more bars on the phone. If it was a "bars" issue then it was almost certainly done deliberately to make the iPhone reception look better than what it was.
2. It wasn't just bars. I had this phone and you would literally drop off calls by holding the phone differently when you hadn't done anything else. There was a genuine problem with the phone that I don't think was ever resolved other than people getting used to holding the phone differently like Steve Jobs told us to.
I lost my iPhone and switched to a hand me down from my parents which was a generation older and the service was significantly better.
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I‘m guessing gripping any phone will drop signal strength, but the iPhone made itself look worse.
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Most people solved this by indeed not "holding it wrong" or getting cases (I don't know if the cases worked, but there was a whole industry built around advertising cases that solved this problem).
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