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Tech’No: iPhone 4 Fails Consumer Reports Testing

Contributed by Rick DeVan on July 12, 2010 at 5:25 pm ET

Resource: Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4

Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4’s signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software that “mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength.”

If you want an iPhone that works well without a masking-tape fix, we continue to recommend an older model, the 3G S.

One step forward…

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