CNN reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally responded to critics who have complained that holding the iPhone around its metal edges hampers reception.
His response? 'Just avoid holding it in that way,' the CEO bluntly advised in an e-mail he wrote directly in response to a consumer's questions.
An official statement made later by Apple offered a more poignant explanation. '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,' explained Apple in their written statement.
The iPhone's new sleek design is achieved in part by snaking the antenna through a metal band around the phone's edges--a design which makes it particularly easy to cover the phone's antenna while holding it.
Apple has advised users to avoid gripping the phone on its lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply to place a case over the phone, which equally solves the problem.
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