The rumours went something like this:

- the phone has a choice of frequencies it can talk to the cell tower on
- when you touch the i-spot it effects some frequencies worse than others
- the phone should notice the drop in signal and switch frequency

Supposedly something in the timing of the frequency hopping is off and can supposedly be fixed. I have no idea whether any of this is true or not.

Interestingly one of the touted improvements by some bloggers before this problem was spotted was that the phone would be better at hopping to uncongested frequencies...