Apple just announced the iPhone 4S and it looks exactly the same as the iPhone 4! Does that mean it's plagued by the iPhone 4's notorious attenuation problem? No, not anymore. This time around, they fixed the antenna.
What did they do? According to Phil Schiller, there are now two antennas on the iPhone 4S and their engineering team built a system where the iPhone "can now intelligently switch between two antennas" for even better call quality. That's never been done in a phone before, apparently. And I'm hopeful that it means the attenuation problems of yore are gone gone.
We'll have to play around with it to see if it really works, but it does sound promising. Death to the deathgrip! [Gizmodo Liveblog, Image Credit: GDGT]