Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4

Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by theBobMcCormick on Monday July 12, 2010 @01:19PM (#1508604)

I gotta agree. Particularly because if the ceramic of the rest of the case had extended to cover the antenna (or if it'd been covered by plastic, or really by anything) this wouldn't have happened.

IMHO, Apple got burned by two things here: 1) The got carried about by how cool using the Antenna as part of the case would look. 2) Their infamous obsession with secrecy meant that all the test phones were hidden in cases that masked the problem, thereby inadvertently tainting their test results and preventing them from discovering the problem.

I wonder if they could apply a thin laquer or clear plastic coating to the antenna on future iPhone4's to fix the problem?

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by panacea on Monday July 12, 2010 @04:23PM (#1509290)

I remember seeing the leaked Gizmodo photos and thinking "Yep. that's the new iPhone for sure" even though the gaps in the frame seemed so... unApple like?

It's certainly been entertaining following the drama from finding out that it was left in a bar ("Why would Apple let one off campus? Are they mad?") to Steve Jobs explaining the 'revolutionary' new frame as antennae design, to the eventual kerfuffle about bridging the gap and Apple's admission that they display arbitrary bars 'incorrectly'.

They probably should have installed some Faraday cages of varying effectiveness in Infinite Loop methinks.

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by edkennedy on Monday July 12, 2010 @05:27PM (#1509500)

I kept wondering throughout the entire escapade: "I wonder if Apple is going to rush the iPhone out to the public now that it has been leaked?" It certainly seems like more testing was required.

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by CamperBob on Monday July 12, 2010 @04:23PM (#1509289)

Their infamous obsession with secrecy meant that all the test phones were hidden in cases that masked the problem, thereby inadvertently tainting their test results and preventing them from discovering the problem.

It should've shown up in an EM simulator before the hardware design was even finalized. The fact that it didn't explains why Apple is just now getting around to hiring some RF engineers.

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