Yes. According to Apple Insider.

Meanwhile, the problem seems to have been massively overstated. David Pogue has a thorough review of the situation over at the New York Times.

I’ve asked Apple about the problem three times, and nobody’s gotten back to me, but the company did issue a statement:

“Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance,” it said, “depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your Phone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.” (Or, as Steve Jobs himself wrote to one customer: “Non issue. Just avoid holding it in that way.”)

Avoid holding it that way!? Seriously?

Update: Steve Jobs emailed a customer asking about the issue. Jobs’ response:

There are no reception issues. Stay Tuned.

This seems consistent with some sort of pending fix.

Update 2: On the other hand, Fake Steve Jobs has an alternate take: there is no spoon.

It’s a pretty safe assumption that if you’re reading this blog, you’ve seen “The Matrix.” And you may or may not remember the scene where a kid explains to Neo that the trick to bending a spoon with your mind is simply to remember that, “There is no spoon.”

So it is with marketing. One thing I learned very early in life, thanks to intentional overuse of psychedelic drugs, is that there is no reality. As a guy at the commune once put it: “The reality is, there is no reality.”