Consumer reports has un-recommended the iPhone 4

Keep in mind, that CR has had issues in the past regarding honest testing of products; most recently, Child Safety Seats, and who can forget the way that they fudged SUV rollover testing. I have had my iPhone4 now for about 3 weeks, and I have not been able to duplicate any of the issues that are being discussed.

I would not hold your breath waiting for a redesign from Apple.

Whatever man, stop waste your time and be obsessed and worry about the iPhone 4. I'm now iPhone 4 free after successfully returning it to AT&T without paying any restocking fee. I'm now relief by not keep a hardware design flawed iPhone!

Steve Jobs explicitly stated the iPhone 4 antenna improves the reception, I can only experience loss in signal, drop calls, bad garbled Bluetooth voice using various headset brands including Plantronics 925 and Jawbone 2 randomly, and proximity sensor.

iPhone 4 is great as NOT BEING A PHONE! It's phone feature *****!!!!!!!!!!

Return to AT&T and demand restocking by calling the Customer Service in store using their phone system. The store most likely won't refund that to you but the HQ does, no worry guys!

had mine for a few weeks now, no signal issues and my bluetooth is working fine as well. i read lots of horror stories on here, thought id post up something positive...lol

Venture82 wrote:
I would not hold your breath waiting for a redesign from Apple.

I realize this. It is just difficult to imagine Apple's rationale for selling a defective product in the eyes of a venerated, non-profit Consumer Journal.

I have no problems with reception or dropped calls....love my iphone.

klopus wrote:

paulcb wrote:

With iP4 either use case or just don't cover a minuscule gap on the lower left and it'll have similar if not better reception than most at&t 3G phones including old iPhones. That's confirmed by signal strength measurements by AnandTech and CR both of which confirmed that if you don't bridge the small trouble spot iP4 has a very good reception. My own experience also confirms this. I have several dead spot around my house where my old iP 3G and my wife's LG phone all can't make calls while iP4 has no problems.

I've got to agree with you.

I spent some time in the Lake District (in the UK) which is notorious for patch/weak signal strength on all networks, due to the mountains and the valleys. I found the iPhone 4 worked just has well if not slightly better than my 3GS.

I was able to use my iPhone 4 in a very weak area. Basically the signal was that weak, I needed to get out of the car to get a signal, and the same applied to my girlfriend's Samsung phone in this location. After I had got out of the car, I was able to hold a clear and unbroken phone call.

My natural holding position means that I do not bridge the gap on the bottom left. I tried bridging the gap for around 1 minute in the weak signal area that I mentioned earlier, just to see if I got the reception issue, but I did not get it.

Just hold your 3GS by the right corner, down. There goes your signal. I can drop 3 bard by holding it there(without the case, with the case nothing happens).

Has anyone outside of the US able to produce the same problem? I wonder if this is related to the US only!

I'm from the UK and can do this with my iPhone 4 but I never get dropped calls even with no bars? We have good networks here in the UK so feel sorry for you guys in the US. It's definitely a problem all over the world.

Yeah, you can read on Engadget. It also affects British persons. It's a matter of how strong the signal is, and how tight you hold the phone.

I read a lot of comments and posts around the iPhone 4 before getting one myself. The device is fast and nice but even if I'm not left handed, I also face the signal issue. I even bought the bumper and therefore generated more revenue and profit for Apple but even with that the quality is not great. I think if you use the iPhone as a media center accessing the internet and you look at the phone module as an option then the iPhone 4 is perfect.

In a certain way, I'm in favor of a general recall in order to review and fix the issue that seems to be well confirmed as an hardware issue.

Steve, I'm surprised your PR's don't advice you correctly on what to do at this time???

Oh, they have probably advised Steve to recall the phone, but his arrogance and greed will prevent that from happening.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am in Apple's response to this situation. From the Antenna issues to the proximity sensor issue, this phone is a royal Design FAIL. when are they going to admit it and correct it for those that are affected?

I would expect this post to be censored.

Apple should do something about this. I've seen this issue (and the CR story) shown on CNN and FOX news the past couple of days.