CR does yet another hatchet job on the iPhone, this time, the Verizon iPhone 4.
Personally, I grant great weight to CR (look what they did to Toyota), and have only ever really, strongly disagreed with them when they rated Rockports over Mephistos.
Source: blogs.barrons.com
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AAPL: Consumer Reports Notes Verizon iPhone Signal Issue.
By Tiernan Ray
They’re at it again: the folks at Consumer Reports write on the site’s electronics blog today that their tests have revealed a signal loss issue with the CDMA version of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 4 at Verizon Communications (VZ) that they say is similar to the problem they reported last year with the AT&T (T) model.
As with our tests of the AT&T iPhone 4, putting a finger across one particular gap—the one on the lower left side—caused performance to decline. Bridging this gap is easy to do inadvertently, especially when the phone is in your palm, which might readily and continuously cover the gap during a call. Reception typically dropped notably within 15 seconds or so of the gap being bridged. The iPhone eventually dropped calls when touched at very low signal strength—that is, at levels of around one bar in the phone’s signal-strength meter.
The authors do note that, “The phone performs superbly in most other respects, and using the iPhone 4 with a case can alleviate the problem.”
Will there be another press conference about this?
Apple shares today are up $4.75, or 1.4%, at $347.63. |
