Consumer Reports Says iPhone 4 Has Design Flaw

Consumer Reports said in a blog post and accompanying video on Monday that widely reported signal problems with the iPhone 4, Apple’s latest mobile phone, are a result of a flaw in the phone’s antenna design, and that it cannot recommend purchasing the phone. That contradicts earlier claims by Apple that the problems are a software issue.

The magazine said its engineers performed a series of tests on three separate iPhone 4s inside a controlled lab environment known as a “radio frequency isolation chamber.” They found that when the bottom left corner of the iPhone is touched it can sometimes lose enough signal strength to drop calls.

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