iPhone 4 update 4.0.1 reception test video

A few of us here in the Imulus office have iPhone 4’s and we’ve all been able to reproduce the reception problem at our office location. You can see here the new update provides slightly different bar lengths and does seem to produce different reception expectations. Here is one office phone on 4.0.1 and the other on 4.0. We had them right next to each other laying on a desk. The one with four bars is the 4.0 version.

Further, we called the new 4.0.1 phone from the office landline and took a video. You can see the call is fine for a few seconds, then we apply pressure to the death spots and by 30 seconds in the call is dropped. Even though the phone never shows “no service” it still drops the call. Apple stated this update was just a reception formula fix, still, it shows that even with 1 bar of 3g being reported the call will still drop if those spots are covered.