Look. I'm not bashing iPhones. But it's pretty indisputable that, when you consider cell phones, the iPhone is not what you'd call the granddaddy of the bunch. Point of fact, being released in its initial incarnation in 2007, it's pretty much a Johnny-come-lately compared to the phones I started carrying back in 2000, when I bought my first cell phone from a blonde cutie who later became my wife.
Comes now this bunch talking about "phantom iPhone buzz" as if this syndrome was brought down from on high by Saint Steve himself.
Boys and girls, I've had that phantom buzz almost ever since I got my first Motorola flip phone. It's probably been around ever since the phones got small enough to wear on one's belt or carry in one's pocket. My Startac, the Nokia I carried for five minutes, my LG flip phones, my Moto Razr V3c or whatever it was, my Palm Treo 755p, and both of my Android phones have all been part of that evolution. And I had "phantom buzz" with all of them.
So the statement, "Scientists speculate it's the result of random nerves firing, biochemical noise that our brains tuned out until they were reconditioned by the iPhone," is pretty much just so much fucking bullshit designed by fanbois to provide Apple with some product placement.
Ashamed of yourselves, you should be.
When I was wearing my flip phone on my belt I regularly experienced "phantom iPhone buzz." The root cause was rumblings in my intestines. Gas. :p