Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. "Oh, and we also

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. "Oh, and we also disabled the Field Test mode so that you can no longer obtain a quantitative RSSI reading in dBm. Because if somebody were to, say, hack the phone to re-enable it, they might notice that holding the phone by the antenna could degrade its noise figure by as much as 24 dB (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2), killing all but about 1/250th of the signal power seen by the front end. And we don't know about you, but that just wouldn't be magical enough for us. "Not only that, but we've either fired the RF engineers who designed our 'magical' antenna, or we're just now getting around to hiring our first ones. Sure, we only release one or two new products a year, but we apparently need three full-time PhD-level antenna engineers ( http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/apple-hiring-iphone-antenna-engineers-for-some-reason/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/apple-hiring-iphone-anten... ). "You know, to put the magic in." I now literally feel ill after reading that.