Saturday, February 26, 2011

Consumer Reports ' antennagate, ' reignites sues Verizon Apple iPhone 4 editions

(Credit: Apple)

Renewal of a problem that just doesn't seem to want to die, Consumer Reports says Apple iPhone Verizon 4 suffers the same problems antenna "death grip" original device, released last summer amid widespread controversy.

Verizon iPhone 4 has an issue that could cause the phone drop calls or be able to make calls in weak signal conditions, Consumer Reports engineers have found in laboratory tests.

The "death grip" occurs when you hold the iPhone in a way that covers the band antenna, located on the bottom of the left side of the phone. As with the AT&T version of the iPhone 4, any case (or cottage industry "band-aid" product) would alleviate the problem, the conductivity of interfering with the cell phone signal of human skin.

Consumer Reports tested the new iPhone Verizon 4, along with several other popular smartphone Verizon.

Special tests were all conducted in a controlled environment isolation Chamber of RF-CU at our Testing Center in Yonkers, New York and national research. In this room, which blocks the interference from external signals, our engineers test mounted each phone on a support and established a continuous signal connection to our base station emulator, a device that mimics the cellular signals are given in the field. We then put a finger to every cell phone in a range of locations around its edge and monitored changes the phone's performance in every position.

Proofs of claim that the iPhone was the only phone hit by inserting your finger around the outer band of the phone.

Once again, Consumer Reports has not included the iPhone Verizon Smartphone in its list of recommended for its subscribers, despite the fact that it surpassed many other smartphones in almost any other category.

Consumer Reports is entitled not to include Apple iPhone Verizon 4 recommended in its smartphone? Let me know what you think in the comments!

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