★ July 2nd
- Consumer Reports: ‘iPhone 4’s Supposed Signal Woes Aren’t Unique, and May Not Be Serious’
Who am I supposed to believe, the sensationalist hacks at Consumer Reports, or the straight-shooters at Gizmodo?
★ July 10th
- Consumer Reports Won’t Recommend the iPhone 4 Over Reception Issue
Mike Gikas:
It’s official. Consumer Reports’ engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that 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. Due to this problem, we can’t recommend the iPhone 4.
Left unmentioned in the post was this accusation by CR:
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."
The point of this post is less about Consumer Reports, who are the ones who revised their statement, but more on the increasing unthinking fanboyish tendencies of Gruber on his blog. Who are we to believe, the measured investigative reporting of John Gruber, or the corporate cheerleading of Gizmodo and Consumer Reports.
But, I can go overboard on Gruber-bashing. He's nowhere near as bad as Bill Palmer.
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