Consumer Reports is the handbook for all gadgets. If you want a fair, even-handed review of anything, just turn to the pages of Consumer Reports and see what they have to say about it. You can trust them to be honest to a fault, and unfortunately for Apple, that included their products. Rather than being blinded by the brand, Consumer Reports cuts to the heart of the issue: in spite of its great scores otherwise, the iPhone 4 isn’t recommended because it sucks as a phone.
As the company said on their website, “Consumer Reports’ engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there there is a problem with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower left side — an easy thing, especially for lefties — the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal.”
Of course, Consumer Reports does have a solution to the iPhone’s antenna problem, akin to the ones offered by Gizmodo. Just apply a strip of duct tape over the antenna area, and there, you fixed it!
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