After the ‘Death Grip’ debacle, Apple is hiring antenna engineers to work on its iPhone however, does anyone have any ideas what Apple can do to get out ahead of this issue. Well, we all heard about the cheap solution in the old humble rubberband/bumper or simply avoiding certain hand positions, but it’s pretty obvious that the proud iPhone owners would need a bit more than these appalling solutions. This is the reason why the industrious artist Scott Freeland created with iRetrofone Steampunk Copper edition. This Steampunk handset will charge your iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4, and sports a working USB handset to keep you from touching the black strip in the metal band, ensuring crystal clear calls from the 19th Century. Priced at $450, this steampunk handset is cold cast, polished by hand and signed by Scott Freeland himself.
Via: Gizmodo