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when the iPhone 4 went on sale in June of 2010 it was an instant hit this is really hot selling nearly 2 million units in the first three days but the phone's new design instantly sparked lawsuits claiming the phone was defective because of reception issues I think when you're grabbing it like with your whole hand you're covering up some part of the antenna and that's part that's messing you up people started calling this phenomenon the antenna gate which is kind of like Watergate than any other sort of scandal primarily because Apple didn't really talk about it for a couple weeks to appease angry customers Apple began offering free cases to solve the problem but still the lawsuits persisted and just last month a settlement was reached and Apple agreed to pay out $15 to qualified users in terms of size this covers of an estimated 25 million people in the class so times 15 dollars per bumper that's about 375 million dollars they should have tried to take care of it before it ever happened you know and before they release it but at least they're doing something the newly launched web page iPhone for settlement comm explains the rules of eligibility claims need to be filed by August 28th in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News