Check out the results one Gizmodo reader sent in of speed tests while holding and not holding the phone:

Reception & 3G speeds drop like a stone when you touch the iPhone 4.

Of course, the latter issue was predicted (via Google Translate) a few weeks back by Danish Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen, who noted that not only was this concept quite old, but easily demonstrable with other antenna systems.

Maybe this is the result of overworking your Chinese slave labor assemblers to the point of suicide. I mean, they have to be assembly problems, because surely Apple wouldn’t release a new, highly-anticipated product with so many flaws, right?

Oh, wait. Yeah, they would.