Ouch! Consumer Reports slams the Verizon iPhone 4

Consumer Reports lost my interest years ago. The bastards.

(Thought I'd get a slam in of my own...)

I'd venture to guess the vast majority of all cell phones are fitted with some type of protective case, iPhone 4's included. I consider the risk of dropping my phone and damaging it a bigger concern than any assumed loss of signal on the fringe of the cellular network because I have my finger bridging the metal bands. For that reason the Consumer Report recommendation is a non-issue to me.

CR is definitely more irrelevant than ever. If the problem were as big as they claim then people would be returning Apple iPhones en masse. They're not. In fact, their sales continue to climb as does their stock. My entire family and extended family all have iPhones and we're all happy with its performance.

This is sort of like the other media scares that occur on a daily basis. Most of them are blown so far out of proportion that it's often silly.

But, I've known about CR's ineptitude for decades now. They claim to have the best testers but in reality they continually show themselves to be amateurs at just about everything.

My Verizon iPhone doesn't do that no matter how hard I try! What are they doing different? I covered all 4 gaps at once & my signal did not degrade at all!

Me, I hate it when I get into my car and my transistor radio doesn't work... but no, the antenna must be a new, unrelated problem that's never been seen before.

I'm actually a bit jealous, I can't make my phone drop a call that way. No, mom, I'm still here. *sigh*

Ouch! Consumer Reports makes themselves look like the idiots they really are.

Mistake. The result of the CR slam will be less than zero.

Further illustrating their irrelevance to consumers in general.

I'm just here to say that I have the original ATT iPhone 4.

When I first got the phone, yes I could make a bar or two go down...

No I could never make a call drop.

I am in Sacramento, and am very happy with the ATT service in and around this area... so that probably has a lot to do with it.

I think for CR to give these things a NEGATIVE review is just crazy. So crazy that I take more of what CR says with a grain of salt.

When I was younger, my Dad used to BASE PURCHASE DECISIONS off of CR. Yea right, not in 2011 - That publication misses the mark for THIS techno-phile.

I goto CES and SEE what I like, I wouldn't recommend Consumer Reports to ANYONE! :D

To the above commentators, even engadget admitted the 1st time that the Iphone HAS this issue. CR tested this issue with other phones and they did not encounter any signal loss. This issue is far more evident when in areas with low signal. The ambiguity of this whole thing(people having it and people not having it) is an enforcement to CR's verdict IMO.
The fact that your 2 friends didn't encounter it or the fact that you don't like CR saying this about the phone you spent a couple of paychecks on, still does not make it go away. Even if the phone sells it still does not negate that design flaw. It is OK people, there is no need to be so in denial about it.
I for one am happy that CR did not succumb to the Apple hype.

no not ouch because CR are idiots. They stopped being relevant in about 1990. If you want to know what toilet paper to buy go to CR. If you want to know about technology look at a reputable tech source. They tell us one thing that everyone already knows, to use a case, and then say don't buy it?

The reasons not to buy it might be that CDMA sucks, or the way it handles multiple calls, or that a new iPhone 5 will be out in June. But the antenna thing is stupid.