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"Curing the iPhone 'Death Grip': Your LiveStrong Bracelet?"

This article was written by Jason Beahm: "The reception and antenna problems with the iPhone 4 have already been blowing up the news. Lawsuits have been filed, techies are up in arms and iPhone enthuistists have been stuck ordering $30 cases to keep their calls from dropping.

Things started off swimmingly for Apple with the iPhone 4; the company sold 1.7 million iPhones in the first three days. The steel band that frames the new iPhone was touted as a design improvement that would increase the power of the antenna over previous iPhones.

The only problem is, it tends to drop calls when you make contact with the lower left portion of the phone while you're making calls, which is, needless to say, quite inconvenient.

However, with a little bit of creativity, users have figured out how to save money, support a good cause, and fix their iPhones. All you need is a Livestrong bracelet and a pair of scissors. Lance Armstrong heard about the idea and posted "Wow. Cool." on his Twitter account..."

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Source: FindLaw's Modern Practice: Law & Technology. 8 July 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).