Consumer Reports says that it can’t recommend iPhone 4
July 13th, 2010 - 10:48 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, July 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One of the most respected consumer organization - Consumer Reports has declared that it cannot recommend the new iPhone 4.
Consumer Reports announced yesterday that due to the antennae problem with the phone, it cannot recommend the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 has a peculiar problem that has to do with the antennae signal. Users said that when they move the phone to a particular position, the number of bars on the screen can move from zero to full bar and vice versa.
Apple recently acknowledged the problem and announced that it has introduced a software upgrade that would fix the error.
Consumer Reports however has a fix for the antennae problem of iPhone 4. It said putting a piece of tape on the left side of the phone, somehow fixes the signal problem.
The declaration by Consumer Reports is very damaging for the Apple Company considering that Apple is currently facing tough competition in the Smartphone market from giants like Google.
However on the same site, Consumer Reports ranked the iPhone 4 as the best Smartphone giving the phone a ranking of 76 from a possible 100.
According to WSJ “Digital Daily” John Paczkowski said that, “The product evaluation agency rated the iPhone 4 “Excellent” in its display, navigation, Web browsing, multimedia and battery life categories, “Very Good” in phoning and messaging and “Good” in voice quality.”
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