Technology | iPhone 4 Careful How You Hold the iPhone—It Can Lose Reception Users complain of weird tech glitch if you touch antenna By sean brady Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:45 AM CDT Promoted on Newser Jun 24, 2010 12:46 PM CDT Copied Piotr Kubiak of Oakland, Ill., shows off his new Apple iPhone 4. (AP) When you hold the iPhone in your hands and touch the outside antenna band in two spots, it can drop reception (or at least lose bars). Put the phone down and your bars return. Gizmodo has the details of this odd glitch along with reader-submitted videos of the problem. (A rubber case seems to solve it.) Read the full article. More info at Wired. Read These Next After girl goes overboard on cruise, 'hero' dad to the rescue. Kohberger agrees to plea deal in Idaho killings. UPS driver hits the Slip 'N Slide with some partying teens. Obituary reveals teacher's same-sex marriage, and he's fired. Report an error