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so you've got a shiny new iPhone 4 do you it turns out that holding your phone a certain way might actually kill your calls I'm Jessica del Corp from CNN and here's how you can murder your $200 or $300 wonderful ever since people have been getting their hands on the iPhone 4 there have been reports flooding in that covering the black antenna seams with your hand can slowly suffocate data signal we tested it ourselves over 18 t's 3G network on several iPhone 4s and were able to consistently reproduce the results the left antenna seems especially susceptible and after covering it up for about a minute we repeatedly saw signal drop off one bar at a time on one of our iPhone fours signal popped back into view after about five seconds our other test phone had much stronger staying power and didn't always choke when we blocked the seam what's interesting is that not every person we through the problem could reproduce the results exactly the same way each time some people's hands seemed to have the Midas touch while others appear to be all thumbs in addition to your own personal chemistry we also found that the problem is highly dependent on your reception to begin with it was much easier to kill off the signal when it was already weak and of course some individual handsets may be sturdier than others what we do know is that using a rubber bumper like the one that Apple retails for about $30 should help resolve the problem Apple has been pushing that item pretty heavily which makes us wonder if the issue was already detected in-house for CNN I'm Jessica Dahl Corey