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iPhone 4 signal problems for lefthanders
The recent launch of the iPhone 4 promoted huge excitement because of all the technological advances in the new mobile handset. However one glaring problem soon became clear when left-handed users claimed that calls were being cut off because the signal was interrupted when the phone was held in the left hand.
The antenna in the new model is wrapped around the edge of the phone in the stainless steel casing, and can apparently become masked when held in the left hand, causing a drop in signal strength (in fact, there is a small “deadly spot” that causes the problem – see the video linked below).
The issue was brought to the attention of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, at one of the high-profile press launches for the iPhone 4, and many journalists were amazed at his seemingly dismissive response to the problem when he commented: ”Just avoid holding it in that way.” Apple’s official advice is to ”avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band” yet for some left-handers this is the most comfortable and natural hand placement when using the phone.
After the launch of the iPhone 4 the Left-Handers Club were contacted by a number of publications, including the Daily Telegraph, wanting our comments on the problem and we expressed our surprise and disappointment that Apple had not considered left-handed users during their design and testing stages of the new handset. Lauren commented: ”It seems ludicrous to suggest that 10 per cent of potential users should be told they have to adopt a less natural hand hold to use this latest technology. I would strongly suggest that Steve Jobs employs left-handers in his design and testing team in future, and urgently address this issue to ensure the phone is fit for purpose.” A bit ironic really given the often quoted fact that 4 out of the original 5 designers of the original Macintosh computer were left-handed (has anyone got a reference to back that up?).
On consideration of the problem, Apple’s advice to left-handed customers was to buy a case to stop the antenna being blocked by a hand. Apple sells a rubber ”bumper” that shields the sensitive area as do many other firms. A later update of the operating software iOS 4.1 was rumoured to fix the problem but actually just changed the height of the signal strength bars!
Click here to see a good article on this topic and a video demonstrating the deadly spot
There has been a huge amount of comment in various forums about this and one recurring theme is that this is not actually a left-handed issue because most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can write etc while talking. On the other hand (!) they say most left-handers will hold their phone in their right hand. This may be true when actually writing but we suspect that is only a very small part of phone use and most people DO use their dominant hand to hold a mobile phone (though it can also be affected by the person’s dominant EAR – our survey on this a while ago showed that 70% of left-handers have a dominant left ear as well).
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I normally hold my phone in my right hand to my right ear, which allows me to do other tasks requiring dexterity with my left hand. It’s also more natural and comfortable for me to tilt my head to the right, so I still cradle the handset of a land-line telephone between my right ear and shoulder. Even with a headset I use the earpiece in my right ear, so I guess I’m right-ear dominant.
i am left ear dominant…..so i hold my mobile phone to my left ear using my left hand. if i have to write notes, i hold the phone to my left ear with my right hand. i just can’t hear clearly with my right ear.
me too! I wear a hearing aid in my right ear, so can only use my left ear for the phone. I always have conversations like “sorry I didn’t hear that” “can you repeat that please” etc etc. I have a Samsung wave and the mike is on the wrong side if the phone is on the left ear! I didn’t think to check that when I bought the phone though, so I guess it’s my fault!
I work as a Secretary/PA and always hold the phone in my right hand so I can take notes. I hold the mobile in my right hand as well, which feels natural, as does the fact that the headset I now have on my office phone (so I can take dictation while typing) has the earpiece on the right. On my old mobile I texted with my right hand but my new smartphone has a QWERTY touch screen keyboard so I use both hands to text. The other thing I do right-handed is use the mouse, again so I have my left hand free for writing. This is only a problem when using the ‘draw’ feature in Word and Powerpoint, as I use keyboard shortcuts a lot. I think typing develops the use of both hands and gives a bit of ambidexterity.
i hold my cell phone with my left hand and text with my left thumb. talking, i hold it between my left ear and shoulder mostly – while doing other things such as taking notes (with my left hand), washing dishes, hanging clothes etc.
You ask if anyone got a reference to 4 out of 5 designers of the original Macintosh computer were left-handed?
Burrell Smith was the team leader.
Take a look at a 1985 BBC2 Horizon programme, Professor Norman Geschwind “Mystery of the Left Hand”
Does anyone have a copy of that Horizon that they could put up on YouTube? (There’s already the Feinman one there.)
The majority of left handers also have a dominant left eye.
As I have a dominant right eye,it is more comfortable to hold the phone in my right hand,leaving my left hand free to press the keys
yeah my left eyes dominant too LOL
I text with my right thumb but use my left hand and ear for calls
I use any kind of phone in my left hand making note writing a nightmare, I also have a tendancy to catch the volume control on my mobile either making it too loud or turning sound off. I am just grateful for the hands free ability on most phones now.
I am left-handed and hold the phone in my left hand, but according to a lot of research so do a lot of right-handed people. I believe some research points to that being to do with the centres activated in the left/right hemisphere of the brain that process speech.
Because my desk phone is on the right, that’s how I answer the phone. Right hand to right ear. However, my old phone had a shoulder cradle on it which made it easier for me to take notes left handed. Unfortunately, the volume control only went so low, and now I’m a bit hard of hearing in my right ear. So, now I have a head set which I put on my left ear because of the hearing loss on the other side. I also try to use my left ear when using my cordless home phone or my cell. Oddly enough, I text more with my right hand than my left. But then again, I don’t have a keyboard phone either. I still have to punch buttons numerous times to get the right letter.
I use might right hand/ear so that I can write with my left.
However before the advent of mobile phones I used my left ear and pinched the phone with my neck/shoulder so that i could write…and caused sore neck/back frequently.
Smarter now…
I always hold a phone (mobile or landline) in my right hand because I use my left to dial or press the buttons while texting etc. In the days when I wrote things, it also kept my left hand free for that.
Besides, holding a phone takes little dexterity and is something my right hand can easily do. My desk at work is arranged to make this easier. In my case, ear dominance doesn’t seem to come into it.
I always hold my mobile in my right hand to my right ear.
It means I can write/make notes with my left hand, but I will also press menu options (“press 1 to speak to customer services”) with my left, text with my left, and select menus and functions on the phone with my left.
In fact I keep it in my right pants or coat pocket too. So it’s always handled with my right.
I would always have to swap hands is I did it differently.
Mike
Get an Android phone and avoid the problem. Steve Jobs comes across as a jerk every time he opens his mouth to respond to someone who criticizes his products.
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I hold my phone with my left hand to my left ear. I I need to take notes, I hold the phone to my left ear with my right hand.
I am right-handed (but my husband and both our boys are lefties) but I hold my phone in my left hand and am left-ear dominant.
I also use the mobile with my left hand and left ear but I write the sms with the right hand!
I mainly hold my phone to my right ear so I can write with my left.
I’m a lefty too but I’ve always held my phone in my right hand to my right ear – whether I’m using a landline or a mobile – but I have never consciously thought about why I do it that way. In my case it just feels more natural; I don’t think it’s particularly to facilitate making notes, because I was doing it even before I was in a work situation where I needed to make notes while on the phone. I guess I must be right-ear dominant, but now I have tinnitus in my left ear I have an additional reason to use my right ear for the phone.
Dominance of hand just comes naturally whether right or left handed. All manufacturers of products should keep this in mind when they design a product and try for a “neutral” zone for both of us. I use my left hand simply because its the most natural for me as I am left-handed as would a right-handed person would.
I always use left hand and left ear. If i need to write i will hold the phone with my right hand against my left ear.
I’m a lefty, and always use both mobile and fixed line phone in my left hand, to my left ear! I don’t think I could hear properly with my right side! Obviously, I am left ear dominant too!
I need to change my vote. I just got back from the mall, where I pulled out my cell phone and called my son. In the middle of the conversation I realized I had done everything with mt left hand, and was using my left ear. I switch hand and ear half way through; it didn’t feel awkward.
Im a lefty and always use my left ear, if I have to write anything whilst using the phone, I will use my right hand to hold the phone up to my left ear. Which attracts funny looks at times, I find that I am extremely dominated by my left side.
Me too
me too
I’m a lefty, and my dominant ear is also left. I can’t use the phone or cell phone with my right ear. I have never been able to. I use my shoulder often to support the phone.
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Heck of a job there, it absoutlely helps me out.
Hi I’m actually right handed but can’t text with my right hand as I find it very awkward, so have always used my left hand until I got a touch screen and now I have difficulty texting at all!!!!! My eldest is left handed and he holds the phone in his left hand & texts with the same. I do do lots of things left handed.
I’m a long time Macintosh user, but given the problem with holding their phone and their non-responsiveness to fixing it, I guess I won’t be buying an iphone. No sense buying something that I now know is probably going to be a problem for me to use effectively.
I use my left hand with the phone against the left ear. If I have to write, I still use the left ear. While texting I hold the phone in my left hand and use the left thumb to text.
I hold my phone in my right hand, so i can write with the left, but against my left ear, which is dominant! When i text i hold the phone in my right hand too and text with my left. However i do hold it in my left and use the scroll facility with the same hand.
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I’ve answered left, but I had to pick up a receiver (I’m assuming we’re talking about actually holding a ‘phone while having a conversation) to be sure. I did wonder if it was determined by where the ‘phone is on the desk/wall/whatever, but it did feel considerably less natural held to the right ear (I was surprised).
I _dial_ – on a rotary dial, remember those? – with the right hand, simply because it’s awkward to use the left (I never saw a reverse one of _those_!); for pressbuttons, I _think_ I usually use my left.
ISTR quite a lot of years ago some research/trainingmaterial/somethinglikethat which suggested that how one sounds on the ‘phone is influenced by which hand – not how one sounds acoustically, but emotionally or whatever. (Dominant, friendly, businesslike, that sort of thing.) I wonder if this is actually affected – assuming there’s anything in it anyway, of which I’m dubious – by handedness. (Are there any readers who are professional ‘phone talkers – receptionists, call centre workers, etc. – who can tell us if this “belief” still holds sway, and if so are you trained by your employer – or anyone else – to use a particular hand?)
A left-handed rotary telephone would be INCREDIBLE! With an anti-clockwise dial and the handset cord connected to the other side? Somebody must be able to make one of those!
I doubt anyone will – I don’t think they’re even making _clockwise_ ones these days. (Some months ago I read of someone who’d put a battery and the guts of a mobile ‘phone – with extra circuitry to talk to the dial – inside an old dial ‘phone. Fun, but impractical! [With the length of 'phone numbers these days.])
I use my left hand and ear when talking on the telephone and cell phone.
When taking a message, I use my right hand to hold phone on left ear and take the note with my left hand.
My husband is also a left and uses his phones the exact same way.
Left on !!
Kari
I hold my Blackberry-Flip in my right hand. I guess I have trained myself to leave my left hand free for writing whenever possible. I used to be an accountant, and trained to use a printing calculator with my right hand, so the left was free to check-mark totals and make notes. Someone please comment if you disagree, but I think that almost all accountants, bookkeepers, etc, train to use their non-dominant hand on a printing calculator so that their dominant hand is free for writing.
I think there is a similarity to that and using a cell phone.
The poll shows 33% of lefties using the phone right-hand. I don’t think that mechanically, a cell phone favors one hand over the other. So the results are interesting.
The same question should be asked of the general population to really understand whats going on.
I’ve always held a phone receiver in my right hand to my right ear, probably because I first started to use a phone at work and holding the receiver in the right hand left my left hand free with which to write.
I use my left hand. The phone does not feel right in my right hand, but I text with both hands. Even the Bluetooth earpiece does not feel correct in my right ear!!
I use both depending on the situation. Typically my left, If I am just standing and talking. When I’m driving or wrinting something down I use my right.
Driving??
Not sure if I’m an extreme case, but if I have to write while on the phone I’ll actually reach across with my right hand to hold the phone to my left ear, then write with my left hand. It’s not a conscious decision and it makes long phone calls agony!
I am left handed and hold any phone to my left ear using my left hand, unless I need write. Then I switch to my right hand but still hold the phone to my left ear as I am partially deaf in my right ear.
I have an Iphone 3, when I first got it I typed with just my left hand and found it very uncomfortable to use. Typing with my right hand was more accurate but felt very clumsy. Since I was given a blackberry Curve by my work, I find myself typing on both phones with both thumbs holding the phone in both hands which makes things a lot easier. I do still usually hold my phone in my left hand though.
Funnily enough, just after the news about the problem with the Iphone 4 came out, I went into an Apple store to see if I could get the signal to die on a phone by just holding it in the normal way. As soon as I held the phone in my left hand and started to use it, the signal died. I find it really stupid of Apple that they have not recalled the device to fix them.
I have to answer the phone with my right hand – though naturally I DO want to answer with the left.
Why the right? Well, my work desk doesn’t comfortably allow my to have the phone on the left of my screen, When I answer the phone and need to take notes I can easily write with my left hand, use my mouse to access the computer and can easily type with just my left hand – all of these I can not do with the right hand. Finally, I am partially deaf in my left ear so by using my right ear can hear better (I expect that the deafness in the left ear is caused my having my wife sitting to the left of me in the car constantly nagging! (shhhh, don’t tell her I said that!)
I’ve always used my right hand for holding the telephone. I know I started this when I worked in an office where I had to make notes and needed my left hand for writing.
It may be that I have a dominant right ear!
I use my left hand with my mobile and also land line. I find I can’t hear too well in my right ear. I text with my left hand but not too often as I’m too slow.I let my teenage son do it!
I can’t vote on this poll because, although i am left handed, i am forever switching hands.
I’m very LEFTY. But I hold the phone with the right hand so my left dominant hand is free to write, drive, cook, shop etc. When my son was born I also held him in the right arm, freeing up the left hand to feed him, change him etc. When I redid my kitchen, the double washing sink has the drip tray on the left because I wash from right to rinse in left and drip further left.
DRIVE???
I hold the iPhone with my right hand so that my left hand is free to multi-task while I am on the phone. It also allows me to manipulate the touch screen with my left hand. I also cradle the phone with my right shoulder but ironically write with my right-hand so that actually creates for a very awkward position. I wish I never switched handedness!
Not so awkward Chas! I use exactly the same process as you do, from A to Z.
I’m an awkward type! Whenever I pick up a phone, I use my left hand. When I’m dialling, I hold the receiver in my right hand (against my left ear). Having dialled the number (usig my dominant left hand), I transfer the receiver to my left hand. If I have to write anything down, I transfer back to my right hand (or hold it in the crook of my shoulder). When I send texts, I hold the phone in my right hand and send the text with my left hand.
I use the phone on my right hand only during calls; for everything else (including texting and using apps or playing games) I use my left hand.
Wtf are you trying to say?You got it all wrong. Apple straetd this messed up patent war back in April, and samsung has been legally defending their products. Samsung had planned to sue Apple for the 4S a month before. Just because Apple lost their CEO, does not mean Samsung continues letting Apple use Samsung’s better technology.
I have always picked up a phone in my right hand and used my left to dial. I then can take notes with my left hand without having to switch the phone around. Back in college, I moved into a newly remodeled townhouse that had a built in desk set into a small nook in the kitchen. I had a wall phone mounted to save space on the small desktop. I had the installer place the jack on the right side to make it easy for me to pickup the phone with my right hand and dial with my left. Well this drove my right handed roommate crazy! He didn’t quite know why, but it was very difficult for him to use this phone. His preference was to pick a phone up in his left hand and dial with his right (almost impossible the way this phone was installed). He eventually realized why his lefty roommate had had the phone installed the way I did and said, “Wow how do you manage day to day in the right handed world? I couldn’t do it.”
Hey, the worst thing about the iPhones is that it doesn’t give you an option (preferably through the settings or at least through an app) to change the interface to a left-handed friendly format. Meaning:
1. Slide from right to left.
2. Landscape view 180 degrees to the one most apps use today (a ka watch on the side where there are no buttons – right side down).
3. Slide the app screens from right to left.
In general, the iPhone is a prime example of industrial design prejudice. Apple should be ashamed, ashamed, ASHAMED of its ways.
I cannot believe that this goes on in 2010!!!!
I have always used my left hand to talk on mobile or landline, but when I text or dial, or use the functions on my mobile I hold it in my right hand and push buttons with my right thumb. It feels awkward to do this in my left hand, and my left thumb is not as flexible. I am now deaf in my right ear, so I have no choice which ear to use these days, but I never felt comfortable with the phone up to my rifgt ear even when I had all my hearing. I have noticed with landlines that righthanders often pick the phone up with their left hand and transfer the handset to their right hand to use. Maybe this dates from the old dial phones which often had the handset resting horizontally above the dial and the cord on the left… very difficult to pick up right-handed!
Works for me
I always hold my phone-whether mobile or home in my right hand, as my right ear is better for hearing. I am 42 years old and was never forced to use my right hand to accomplish tasks, but found so many times it was easier to use the right handed tools readily available than ask for left handed tools. I have always used my left hand for writing, but am actually able to use my right with good results (as was needed when I broke my left finger many years ago). I guess as far as being left handed goes, I don’t consider it a handicap or am I ever felt discriminated against because left handed products aren’t available. I work with several lefties and it’s so nice because we set up our cells to accommodate us lefties so when the righties come in, everything is backwards for them, but we say it’s right for us!!
I almost always hold phone in my left hand, in part because my left ear is my dominant ear….the only problem is when I have to write something, and I will often hold the phone to my left ear with my left shoulder, and sometimes use my right hand/right ear if I have to write.
I use my left hand to hold any phone when I talk except if I talk for very long and my hand gets tired I will switch to my right hand but this is more awkward. My left ear is
apparently my dominant ear. I do hear better from my left ear. My oldest granddaughter is also left handed and actually has some hearing loss in her right ear. Maybe it’s just a coincidence but I have wondered about this for some time. I am some what ambidexterous too but it seems my right side,all over, has more problems than the left;
such as bursitis in my right hip, tendonitis in my right wrist and the carpal tunnel was worse in my right hand than my left, a sore throat is worse on the right and an earache.
This is extreme but I have had adrenal cancer and that was on the right side. Very strange indeed. I really like being left handed though.
Never really thought about this until I read the article. I’m dominant left ear by far (phone in my right ear feels completely unnatural) so when I’m not writing I’m holding it with left and if I’m writing it’s pinched (the iPhone is big) on my left shoulder or I liberate myself with the earphone/microphone plug in. All writing and button poking is with my left pointer.
I am left-handed but hold phone in right hand as I write with my left hand. The phone is mainly used for business so need to take notes. If I am at a desktop computer I use either hand depending wether I am using the keyboard (phone right hand) or mouse (phone left hand). If am using a laptop phone is always held right hand as I use touchpad left handed.
I perform various activities with his right hand, despite writing to the left, one of which is to take the phone, also grabbed the cup with which to drink water and use the scissors with the right hand does not know if it was by imitation in my childhood, but this is something very natural to me.
(Pardon the grammar, I speak Spanish)
Greetings!
Phone Left hand to left ear. Change to right hand to text or whatever.
As an extra – I write right handed, though I find it almost impossible to underline anything with my right. I write with my right, put the writing instrument in my left – pick up the ruler in my right – then underline.
Normal for me!!
I hold it with my right to text, and hold it to my ear with my left hand.
I am left-handed, and have always held the telephone receiver in my right hand. If I do try to use my left ear, it feels very strange and I find it harder to focus on the call. I can hold the receiver in my left hand, but across my body to use the right ear, and that is fine for me, so it seems to be the dominant right ear that matters. Of course, modern smart-phones need to be held in the passive hand while the dominant hand does all the dragging and tapping…
I agree with D T Nelson. Growing up with dial telephones and then pushbutton phones, it made sense to use my dominant left hand to dial the number and subsequently write notes, so the receiver has always been in my right hand. Now with an iPhone, it is held in my right hand while I tap the screen with my left. I never ever put the phone to my left ear, it just feels wrong.
I always hold the phone in my left hand. When I need to write something, I’ll switch the phone to my right hand.
hold my phone in left hand, but if i need to write, i hold the phone in my right hand to my left ear! soooo i can scribble away ! :0)
Tracey, I do exactly the same thing! I hold the phone in my left hand to my left ear. If I have to write I hold the phone to my left ear with my right hand. I only have a cell phone, not a land line. I want an iPhone but might wait until Apple cares enough to make a design change as I don’t really want a bulky case.
I tend to use my right hand to do most things so I hold my phone in my right hand and text with my right thumb or when calling hold it to my right ear. It’s just more comfortable for me and it’s easier to write as well.
I mainly hold my phone in my right hand which leave my dominant left free to do more complex tasks – although if I am on for more than an hour, I have probably switched back and forth several times! ;>)
I hold my phone in my left hand but I’m not sure it’s ‘handedness’ but more that I think my hearing is better in my left ear. I even find if I have to swap hands to write something while talking on the phone I keep the reciever against my left ear.
I do that too. Both my ears work fine but if I have to write something down (and how often do we really have to do that?) I hold the phone to my left ear with my right hand. I’ve seen others do that too, since 5 out of 8 family members are left-handed (all the women).
I do the same thing. I hold the phone in my left hand to my left ear, but when I have to write something, I hold the phone in my right hand to my left ear. This applies at work (where more often than not I have to write while on the phone) and at home.
I hold a phone in my right hand so I can write notes with my left hand. This is all the more true since I bought a smartphone, since I want to cradle it in my right so I can do all the touchscreen stuff with the fingers of my left hand. So far, I am like D T Nelson above. However, I put the phone to my right ear, because I find I can balance better that way for left-handed writing. If I put it to my left ear and write, it is more likely the phone will fall.
I tend to use both for call making, there is no preference there. When typing though, it is held in my right and stabbed at with my left!
I don’t have an iphone but I hold my mobile in my left and use both thumbs for the keys. If I have to change to my right hand for any reason when speaking on the phone it’s always a priority to change back as quickly as possible. Having said that, I’m quite ambidextrous in carrying out other tasks and use right handed equipment (tin opener, scissors, hockey stick!!!) without trouble. In fact, I find left handed scissors almost impossible to use.
Liz, I totally agree I am also left handed but do most things right handed. Like using scissors, hockey sticks, phone, computer mouse. You have to adjust, I’m the only one in my family who was left handed growing up and boy did I learn to adjust. And I bat and throw with my right hand, too. My parents used to yell at me to use my right hand, what was wrong with me they say and I would try use my right hand but with disasterious results. Not so great for a kid’s self-esteem, but I think I turned out pretty well.
I have to hold most things..phones etc… unwillingly in my right hand at the moment as I have such bad arthritis in my left thumb being SO left handed all my life, (52 years young so far). My specialist who will be replacing a joint says it’s quite common in women and usually the dominant hand but even more so in left handers as everything we use is such a struggle.
I’d love to see a right hander unable to use their right hand just for a day and see how they cope with everything being unnatural from the minute they get up as they struggle to be left handed
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All I want now is a left handed camera!!!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I really wish right-handers would be in a position where they’re not allowed to use their right hand. They have no idea how hard it is to use a non-dominant hand.
I hold my phone with my left hand but text with both hands since it’s much faster that way. Oh and I really want a left-handed camera too!! Is there really such a thing?
I’ve seen an American camera where there is a button on each side on the top, can’t remember the make.
I don’t really have a dominant hand when it comes to holding the phone, mobile or landline, as I always put it on speaker as my hands go numb after a few minutes and my ear always gets hot, no matter which type of phone.
I have a Blackberry Storm. The cradle it sits in to charge is right-handed, therefore when I pick it out of it’s cradle to answer it, it is upside down. I have to turn it 180 degrees in order to answer it. Not good if one needs to answer quickly.
I hold the phone to my left ear with my left hand, unless it’s a long call and then I switch off during the call. Curiously, I dial with my right… I don’t text at all at this time. When I use a *normal* phone I almost always hold it between my right ear and shoulder, probably because this will mostly happen at work and I want my left hand free to write any notes with.
I have always held telephone receivers in my right hand, and my iPhone is no exception. I have always assumed it is because I use my more-capable left hand for dialing. The iPhone, with the touch-screen interface, only magnifies this; I always hold the iPhone in my right hand and touch the screen with my left (or, sometimes, with my right thumb). I just now tried it the other way and found it exceedingly awkward, although holding it in my left hand and touching it with my left thumb worked okay.
On the other hand, when I hold a telephone receiver by wedging it between my ear and my shoulder, it is always my left ear and left shoulder, never my right.
After reading your description and try outs, I did the same and came up with exactly the same results.
I can’t understand the reality of some of these answers when I really don’t know hardly anybody who ever has to actually dial numbers on their phones; it’s mostly speed dial or contact list from what I’ve seen. My vote goes for left all the way.
I’m sorry, I assumed the poll had to do with TALKING on the phone. Texting doesn’t really apply to the “deadly” area interfering with the signal, does it? You’re typing text, then sending is one click; not a conversation that a signal problem would interfere with, as far as I can tell. Maybe some people are overthinking it.
BTW my husband is majorly right-handed but he holds the phone with his left hand up to his left ear, for some reason that I can’t imagine.
I voted ‘right’ only because that’s the hand I text with. when I talk on the phone I hold it with my left. Believe me, I text so much more than I talk.