Confirmed: iPhone 4 gives fewer bars for lefties

I am a left-handed, too. It does not lower my bars at all. I don't hold like a death grip. I hold it just blocking the left gap. When I answer the phone or make a call, it is not blocked at all. My thumb is in the center on the left side.

Based on my testing which showed no drop in signal and I am a lefty, am wondering if these people were in a basement or a known deadzone when doing their testing. Because that would simply indicate that they were missing a few additional brain cells. :)

One never knows. I've not seen an on the street test of this so I guess we'll never know.

What I did see was me holding the phone in my left hand for 10 minutes and no dropped bars, no missed calls, etc.

CONFIRMED

interesting word to use. Confirmed by whom?

Well... im lefty but i hold the iPhone with the right hand, because as a lefty, I control the phone with the left hand ;)

So I think the right title is: iPhone gives fewer bars for righties. :D

And remember... Apple is designed for artists, by artists... and the best artists are lefties (da vinci, michaelangelo, etc) ... and probably that is another reason why mac os always had the window buttons on left side... :D :D :D

I have the problem! freakin' annoyin', natural way to hold the phone is palm against the bottom part of the phone, with that it cause's loss of signal. I've wondered from the start why Apple advertised this "bumper", they were not in the iphone casing market before (not much) so the release of this bumper suggests Apple were aware of this flaw and found a fix by selling bumpers!

picked up my iPhone 4 today...held in both hands with no reduction in bars!!!

Have you tried using the bumper? A rubber insulator might resolve that for you.

I can reproduce in my office almost every time but when I go out to the street I cannot.

When I make the connection between the left and bottom antennae it happens every time. If I am careful to only touch the left antenna there is no issue. I can't speak to the issue existing on 3G/3GS or others' experiences thus far, but I am left-handed and this does clearly impact my phone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9yl9mO3cQ

I can only reproduce the results of that test at certain times. Right now, I'm holding the phone in my left and have full service. Earlier, I was in a place where reception was less than full and was able to see the reception go down when I held the phone in my hand.

Signal strength has got to have something to do with it...

The reception is bad but what did I expect, really? It is AT&T and Apple....they have yet to figure out how to give consumers good reception and call quality/consistency