The issue that many people are experiencing is a drop of signal bars when holding their brand new iPhone 4 compared to when it's just sitting in front of them. From others posts it seems that "palming" the phone in ones' left hand will result in a loss of signal, sometimes dramatic enough to bring up the dreaded "No Service".

The issue stems from the positioning of the internal antenna, and cupping the bottom of the phone in your hand. Below is an image of the right AND wrong way to hold an iPhone 4.

According to Steve Jobs in a response to a DailyTech readers email; "Just avoid holding it that way."

Apple's official stance on the claims: Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.

Some users are reporting they have NOT experienced this issue so many theories are focusing on a manufacturing flaw of these initial units.

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If you have your finger anywhere near the pulse of the tech community, you've heard stirrings of an Apple "tablet". This tablet was officially announced as the Apple iPad. The iPad is essentially an enlarged iPhone with a 10" screen and up to 64GB Wi-Fi models available.

The iPad will be available from AT&T starting at $499 for the 16 GB WiFi-equipped model, $599 for 32 GB, $699 for 64 GB, and additional $130 per model for 3G functionality. iPad users must also sign up for AT&T's data plans at $14.99 per month for 250 MB of data, to $29.99 per month for unlimited data, without the requirement of a new 2 year contract.

The iPad comes in a tidy little 1.5lb package, and is a mere 0.5" thick. The LED screen measures 9.7" diagonally. It boasts up to a 10 hour battery life using Wi-Fi, and comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It uses a specially-made 1Ghz A4 processing chip. It comes with a 30-pin connection on the bottom to dock and charge it, as well as connect a keyboard and other iPad accessories like a Camera Connection Kit. There will also be a myriad of accessories allowing connectivity to televisions, displays and projectors, and allow users to import photos and files from SD cards.

The iPad will be compatible with most (if not all) Apple Store apps that can be viewed at their normal size or scaled up to fill the screen of the iPad. It will also sync with iTunes via USB to PCs and Macs.

The iPad is expected to take on the Kindle and Sony Reader market with its iBook store (even though the prices are considerably higher than Amazon), and has also garnered interest from the iPhone/iPod gaming community. EA already has games in the works made for the iPad, and showed off a demo for Need for Speed Shift.

Apple enthusiasts and curious techies will have to wait 60 days for the iPad's release, with 3G models shipping a month later.

For those who are less than enthused, enjoy this Photoshop job.

In a quiet move which some call anti-user, Apple is seeking a patent for technology that would lock up devices until users demonstrate that they had viewed advertisements. Last year, Apple filed an application with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office which was made public last month, that could change how consumers are able to use the devices they own.

The patent filed is for technology to display advertising on computers, phones, televisions, media players, game devices and other consumer electronics (practically anything with a screen). The technology then commands user attention by freezing or locking up the device on which the advertisement is displayed until the user demonstrates they have watched the ad by clicking buttons or answering questions. The system also accounts for music players by inserting commercials that come with an audible prompt to press a particular button to verify the listener’s attentiveness.

It's suggested that the technology would be embedded into the core of the device, making it so that the advertisements could be displayed anytime, anywhere. It is also suggested that this form of advertising could reduce prices on products or may enable them to be offered for free. Users would then have an option to pay to make the device "ad free" for limited times or on a permanent basis.

According to the New York Times, "What the application calls the “enforcement routine” entails administering periodic tests, like displaying on top of an ad a pop-up box with a response button that must be pressed within five seconds before disappearing to confirm that the user is paying attention.

These tests “can be made progressively more aggressive if the user has failed a previous test,” the application says. One option makes the response box smaller and smaller, requiring more concentration to find and banish. Or the system can require that the user press varying keyboard combinations, the current date, or the name of the advertiser upon command, again demonstrating “the presence of an attentive user.”

It is unclear whether or not Apple has concrete plans to utilize this technology in any of their devices.

The "Baby Shaker" app has been removed from Apple's app store. The game, in which users shake the phone to shush a crying baby, somehow made it through Apple's approval process, but was subsequently removed just days later.

The game, developed by Sikalosoft, a crude drawing of a baby, and the object of the game is to stop the baby from crying by shaking the iPhone until red X's appear over the baby's eyes. The description of Baby Shaker read: "On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don’t want them to be! They’re always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it."

Some parents breathed a sigh of relief when "Baby Shaker" was removed, but for others, this is not enough. The angry mobs demand an explanation from Steve Jobs himself.

One angry father, in his letter to Steve Jobs, writes: "You have no idea the number of children your actions have put at risk by your careless, thoughtless and reckless behavior!"

Bad Apple.