{"id":2073,"date":"2010-07-12T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2010-07-12T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T20:02:21","slug":"consumer-reports-says-there-is-a-significant-design-flaw-in-the-new-iphone-and-do-not-recommend-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports says there is a significant design flaw in the new iPhone and do NOT recommend it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-07-12\/consumer-reports-says-it-doesn-t-recommend-apple-s-iphone-4.html\">A new article on Bloomberg today<\/a> whips out a size 13 chankla and goes all upside Steve Job&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>The first paragraph of the story says that &#8220;Consumer Reports said it isn\u2019t recommending Apple Inc.\u2019s iPhone 4 following tests confirming it has a hardware flaw that causes signal quality to degrade. \u201cThe problem seems to be a design flaw, and it is significant,\u201d Mike Gikas, senior electronics editor for Consumer Reports&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>And duh!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been suffering with AT&amp;Ts craptacular service for years now, and it&#8217;s only a matter of time before I can finally get away from dropped calls, dozens of missed texts that suddenly flood in, and phones that don&#8217;t ring when someone calls me. But I have noticed the iPhone itself will completely &#8220;forget&#8221; it has WiFi, and will often power off for no reason. Neither of those problems have anything to do with AT&amp;T&#8217;s service.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Apple and AT&amp;T were made for each other after all.<\/p>\n<p>For a brand new 2010 iPhone to drop calls because someone is &#8220;holding it wrong&#8221; is complete garbage. That should have been caught in the &#8220;alpha&#8221; stage of testing, not the &#8220;consumer testing&#8221; phase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-07-12\/consumer-reports-says-it-doesn-t-recommend-apple-s-iphone-4.html\">Here&#8217;s the link to the Bloomberg article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article on Bloomberg today whips out a size 13 chankla and goes all upside Steve Job&#8217;s head. The first paragraph of the story says that &#8220;Consumer Reports said it isn\u2019t recommending Apple Inc.\u2019s iPhone 4 following tests confirming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-att","category-news","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}