…And it’s not the antenna.

One handy thing about the iPhone is that it is a touch screen device, I have lost count of how many people used to push buttons on their phone while it was in their pocket and accidentally call someone. Since all the iPhones had a sensor by the ear piece, it would know when to shut the screen off so you wouldn’t touch any of the on-screen buttons.

This worked well on the first iPhone, iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3G S but for some reason, on the iPhone 4, it’s just not working all that well with me. Now it might just be me in this situation but I have had the same thing happen to me quite a few times now, I’ll be on the phone to someone and when I go to end the call, something else is on the screen because I have done something with (I’m guessing) my ear?

So far, while being on the phone I have managed to write a new e-mail, add a new contact, edit a contact, change contact groups (adding someone to my favourites) and at one point, half way through the call I heard the dialling tone and I had somehow managed to add my mother to the conversation.

This never happened to me on the old devices but on here it seems to be happening to me on almost every single call I make and it’s getting annoying because I have to hold the phone in some weird awkward position so I don’t do anything.

Out of all the problems people have mentioned with this phone like the antenna issue or the yellow circles on the retina display, well none of that has happened to me. Never dropped a call, I do lose signal if I hold it in the right way but I’ve never had a dropped call happen to me and I have never had any yellow circles on my screen.

So, out of all the problems this device has and all the problems that might get discovered in the future, this is the one that is bothering me the most, the fact that I can’t make a call without doing something completely random to go with it is just annoying.

Well that’s all I have to moan about, for today..