Apple to recall iPhone 4?

A story that appeared in the online edition of the U.K. newspaper Daily Mail said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs might have no choice but to recall the iPhone 4, the latest edition of the Cupertino company's smart phone. Apparently, consumer concern about the diminishing radio signal quality of the handset, and the uncharacteristic mishandling of initial customer complaints by Jobs and company might have painted the normally cool company into a corner.

Customers have complained of instances when the iPhone 4 would lose its signal when the phone is held and its bottom left-hand corner covered by the user's hand. Apple said that contact with the hand causes the phone's built-in antenna to suffer attenuation, or loss of signal.

Earlier, Jobs bluntly told complaining customers to "avoid holding it that way."