I just hold the phone a little higher up in my hand and I don't seem to run into this issue. meh.. That said, I prefer having an option of manually refreshing

I just hold the phone a little higher up in my hand and I don't seem to run into this issue. meh.. That said, I prefer having an option of manually refreshing the UI. When I'm connected to a spotty 3G tower - I don't get any indication if its fetching data or not. I suppose I can drag down the main UI and expose the iOS status bar and see the little circular progress bar, but not an ideal situation.