“Consumer Reports engineers have confirmed that iPhone 4 has and antenna problem” — Mike Gikas

Yes, I’m still on the iPhone 4 reception issues which is getting old fashioned by now (I can’t find anything good to write about anyway)…

According to Consumer Reports, the 20dB drop occurs when you cover the gap on the lower left corner. They tested things with signal isolated rooms so there won’t be any interference and they have some base-station emulator that simulates carrier cell towers.

Seems like the signal formula thing Apple wanted to fix is nothing but a reception indicator correction which (obviously) doesn’t fix a hardware failure.

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