Originally Posted by Tug
I have to admit your explanation makes sense BUT anytime you modify your iphone in any way shape or form your going to void the warranty and yes if you painted your Ford and started to develop body rust soon after Ford would tell you their not responsible due to the paint job.
When I first bought my phone I asked if a leather case with a magnet on it would have a negative effect my phone, my train of thought was the magnet would have an adverse effect on the battery and or the sim card, his reply was absolutely not. Beings I wasn't to sincere about purchasing a leather case I didn't see any reason in pursuing the matter.
If I were to use your logic wouldn't driving around in my truck cause me to lose signal strength?
Driving around in your truck WILL reduce your signal as compared to riding around on your bicycle in the same area ..
I brought up the Ford paint as to mean a ciustom paint job may void the body rust warranty but not the alternator or the piston or the heater or anything else . In the iPhone , the metallic paint does block some signal and thus can cause more battery discharge , dropped call ability etc. ...Apple would be stupid NOT to void the warranty under those circumstances ! The iPhone case encloses all electronic parts ---the antennae of which there are 10 or more in the iPhone can be blocked . Would you expect to wrap your phone in aluminum foil and get a good signal ? NO . Granted , metallic paint is not as dense as aluminum foil but it is still composed of metal powder. Compare it another way if you will. ...when you put on sun glasses , you can still see out of course but NOT as sharp and good as without them ...same as with metallic paint blocking the rf signals into and out of the iPhone.
As for the magnetic latch cases, I've used several and the ones I used had the magnets adjacent to the FRONT of the iPhone whereas the antennae on the V1 and 3G are in the back of the iPhone so there is very little if any blocking rf .The iPhone front has the mike, speaker , home switch , etc etc and that's why the antennae were located in the back .
As a Final , don't you think that if the metallic paint did NOTHING to the operation of the phone that Apple themselves wouldn't have come out with all sorts of metallic paint jobs to sell even more phones ?? No , do what you want but if I want a bright cherry red metallic -racing striped -flamed Tonka Toy, I would buy one of those , I sure wouldn't spend $300-500 for one .