I tried holding my 9700 every way possible and couldn't get the bars to drop from 5.
They are referring to this occurring in similar circumstances (I.e., weak signal strength) to where the iPhone exhibited the loss of bars.
The thing that people don’t understand is that the problem manifests itself only in low-signal areas.
For the iPhone, this issue is exacerbated by two things:
1. AT&T’s network has a lot of low-signal areas compared to some other networks.
2. Apple had an error in computation of how many bars the phone should be showing for a given signal strength - ie, they were showing more bars than they should have before the signal attenuation, so the problem looks more dramatic than it is. That is to say, the s/w error might show five bars prior to the attenuation, then drops to 2 bars, when it probably should have started at four bars and dropped to two.
I have a couple 2G iPones and can reduce the signal by using the death grip. On my new G4 I can kill all the bars but still seem to be able to call out.
Truth is the problem is minor to me and I doubt I will put a bumper on it.
On the plus side I don’t need Tom Tom’s car kit to run navigon anymore, it works fine laying on my lap. As does the iPad by the way.
The problems to me are minor, to some they may be totally unacceptable, and I can see why they may think so. But it isn’t the end of the world.