My understanding is that all phones suffer #2, and the iPhone 4 is not obviously much worse in this respect than its rivals. But, of course, even if you do som

My understanding is that all phones suffer #2, and the iPhone 4 is not obviously much worse in this respect than its rivals. But, of course, even if you do something that fixes #1 completely, there will always be people saying "Boo, Apple hasn't fixed the problem! When I hold my phone like this, I get less signal, just as I did before!" -- when in fact the same would be true whatever phone they used.