According to a report on CNN.com, a solution has been found for the millions of sheeple consumers experiencing reception problems with their iPhone 4s: duct tape.
A damning Consumer Reports test found that touching the iPhone 4 with your finger or hand on the phone’s left side “can significantly degrade” the signal enough “to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal.”
“Due to this problem, we can’t recommend the iPhone 4.”
The Consumer Reports conclusion sent shock waves through the industry as sheeple Apple owners everywhere worried that their precious iPhone 4s might be recalled.
The most talked-about phone in the U.S. — Apple’s iPhone 4 — has a design flaw that’s best fixed with a sliver of duct tape, according to Consumer Reports.
“It may not be pretty, but it works,” writes Mike Gikas on that nonprofit consumer group’s electronics blog.
The patch — which sounds like it’d be more appropriate for kitchen plumbing than for a phone that retails for $200 to $300, plus an AT&T contract — is supposed to correct an apparent problem with the iPhone 4’s metal antenna.
…if you slap a piece of duct tape over that antenna connection, the reception problems go away, the group says. READ MORE…
