Thorough Review Of The New Iphone 4
- Date: 2010-08-13 - Word Count: 409
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It's legitimate. Consumer Reports' techs have just finalized testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a dysfunction with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone's lower left side-a simple quick thing, most definitely for lefties-the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your reception altogether if you're in an area with a weak reception. Due to this problem, we can't recommend the iPhone 4.
We constructed this viewpoint after testing all three of our iPhone 4s (purchased at three separate shops in the New York area) in the controlled environment of CU's radio frequency (RF) isolation chamber. In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test technicians linked up the phones to our base-station emulator, a gizmo that simulates carrier cell towers (see video: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed). We also tested several other AT&T phones the same way, which include the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. None of those phones had the signal-loss symptoms of the iPhone 4.
Our data call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were in large part an optical illusion made by insufficient software that "by mistake gives 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength."
The tests also indicate that AT&T's network might not be the primary suspect in the iPhone 4's much-pointed out signal woes.
We did, however, find an budget-priced options for suffering iPhone 4 users: Covering the antenna gap with a piece of duct tape or another thick, non-conductive material. It may not be nice-looking, but it works. We also expect that using a case would fix the inconvenience. We'll research a few cases this week and report back.
The signal issue is a primary reason that we did not cite the iPhone 4 as a "suggested" model, even though its evaluation in our other tests tendered it atop the latest Recommendations of smart phones that were released today.
The iPhone rated exceptional, in some measure because it sports the clearest display and best video camera we've looked upon on any device, and even outranks its high-scoring rivals with more suitable battery life and such pristine features as a front-facing camera for video chats and a built-in gyroscope that turns the phone into a super-responsive game controller. But Apple specifically needs to design a permanent-and free-fix for the antenna shortcoming before we can prescribe the iPhone 4. click here
We constructed this viewpoint after testing all three of our iPhone 4s (purchased at three separate shops in the New York area) in the controlled environment of CU's radio frequency (RF) isolation chamber. In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test technicians linked up the phones to our base-station emulator, a gizmo that simulates carrier cell towers (see video: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed). We also tested several other AT&T phones the same way, which include the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. None of those phones had the signal-loss symptoms of the iPhone 4.
Our data call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were in large part an optical illusion made by insufficient software that "by mistake gives 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength."
The tests also indicate that AT&T's network might not be the primary suspect in the iPhone 4's much-pointed out signal woes.
We did, however, find an budget-priced options for suffering iPhone 4 users: Covering the antenna gap with a piece of duct tape or another thick, non-conductive material. It may not be nice-looking, but it works. We also expect that using a case would fix the inconvenience. We'll research a few cases this week and report back.
The signal issue is a primary reason that we did not cite the iPhone 4 as a "suggested" model, even though its evaluation in our other tests tendered it atop the latest Recommendations of smart phones that were released today.
The iPhone rated exceptional, in some measure because it sports the clearest display and best video camera we've looked upon on any device, and even outranks its high-scoring rivals with more suitable battery life and such pristine features as a front-facing camera for video chats and a built-in gyroscope that turns the phone into a super-responsive game controller. But Apple specifically needs to design a permanent-and free-fix for the antenna shortcoming before we can prescribe the iPhone 4. click here
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