I consider it natural to the way of the coverage in German speaking countries. Don't forget that it was "old news" for Europe since iPhones 4 were first available in the U.S. I own the iPhone 4 and I can easily repeat the "death grip" whenever I want. However I also almost never see anybody using the 4 without the bumper case.
Let me guess: you don't own iPhone 4 and even haven't tried to borrow one and try it in common urban circumstances?
Why don't you believe the guy who reports his own Eropean experiences? I just claim that the "death grip" is simply not the AT&T issue but the real iPhone 4 issue.
I do have an iphone 4 and live in germany, too, and have not once experienced a dropped call, no matter how hard I actually tried to do the "death grip".
It is dependent on location, my experience is that in more urban areas the problems are more prominent, you probably live in some small city or a city with less providers or mobile phone users, or you haven't tried it in the bigger and denser located buildings. I can repeat the problems in the center of the city easily, but not so easy at my home. And it's not that I'm wasting time trying to repeat it -- it just happens if I hold it without the bumper case.
Once again: Death grip is the real "feature" of iPhone 4 when 3G is used. And it's the iPhone 4 problem, not the AT&T problem.
