Well, this must be one of the most epic “I told you so” moments in the history of consumer wiring. Professor Gert Frølund Pedersen, an antenna expert over at Denmark’s Aalborg University, managed to get his concerns about the iPhone 4′s outmost antennae upon a record the cold dual weeks prior to a phone was even expelled. In an talk on June 10, the Danish brainbox explained that he wasn’t tender by Steve Jobs’ promises of improved reception, describing external antennas as “aged news,” and suggested which contact with fleshlings could result in unattractive consequences to a handset’s accepting:”The tellurian tissue will in any eventuality have an inhibitory effect upon a receiver. Touch equates to which the incomparable portion of antenna energy becomes heat and mislaid.”Machine-translated which might be, though you get the point. Researchers during Gert’s university have already shown that over 90 percent of any phone’s receiver vigilance can be mutilated by holding it in the right place, though he’s highlighting a specific bearing to skin contact as a separate issue to be mindful of. Good to know we’ve got sharp minds out there, and as to his referred to resolution, Gert says phones should ideally have dual antennae which action in a sort of redundant form, so which when a single is shutoff, a alternative can collect up the tardy. So, what are we going to do right away, Apple?

[Thanks, Andrew]