Last summer, when Apple and AT&T rolled out the iPhone 4 with a new antenna system, customers complained of so many dropped calls that a new scandal was born: "Antennagate." Though Apple insisted the phone itself wasn't the problem, it eventually handed out special sleeves designed to help. Now, six weeks after Apple rolled out a Verizon version of the iPhone 4, its Verizon customers are reporting a dropped-call rate of only 1.8 percent, versus 4.8 for AT&T phones, according to ChangeWave Research. Does this vindicate Apple and pin the blame for Antennagate squarely on AT&T?
Yes, Apple's in the clear: This whole brouhaha certainly "seems like a fallacy" now, says Wilson Rothman in MSNBC. Verizon's much-better track record on dropped iPhone calls confirms the suspicion that AT&T's network, not Apple, was always "the culprit for call drops." On top of that, the call-killing "death grip" that critics, and Consumer Reports, used to bash the iPhone 4 "has been proven in lab testing to apply to all phones."
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