ok, so there are a few posts here that claim that most (if not all) phones will suffer some degree of reception loss if held in a certain way.

we've just done a little experiment here with 4 different phones: N900, samsung tocco, Iphone 3gs and an absolutely ancient motorola razr.

admittedly, this isn't exact science but we've just spent half an hour holding these phones in every way we could think of, moving around in different parts of the building.

the only one that consistently lost signal was the Iphone, particulalry when held with thumb and forefinger on the bottom left and top right.

we then spent the next half hour taking the p!ss out of the Iphone owner for having a cr@p phone.

any excuse to give an Iphone sheep a hard time, really.