Apple ’s senior management is for certain heaving a collective sigh of massive relief Tuesday : Consumer Reportsannounced that , after testing , it ’s ready to declare the iPhone 4S a “ CR Recommended ” model . The publication says that the iPhone 4S “ does n’t suffer the reception problem we found in its predecessor , ” the iPhone 4 .
You recall that response problem , proper ? That was the one some in the technical school press knight “ Antennagate , ” where some iPhone 4 owners bump that if they gripped their smartphones in the incorrect property , the strength of the cell signal could drop . Appleacknowledged the issue , pointing out that it afflicted all cell phone , that a bumper or other cause eliminated it entirely , that the vast majority of multitude would see no significant publication anyway , that few people returned the iPhone 4 after purchasing it than return the iPhone 3GS , and that iOS had , for some time , been display cellular signal strength wrong anyway .
Given those fact , Consumer Reportssaw fit out back in July 2010 to denote that it would not advocate the iPhone 4 , even though it outscored every other phone on its smartphone rating template at the time — though it ’s possible we were holding the evaluation guide wrong . It ’s undecipherable whether the magazine ’s failure to endorse the iPhone 4 was the effort of the phone ’s disappointing , record - breaking sales .
Perhaps now that the iPhone 4SdoeshaveConsumer Reports ’s endorsement , the new phone ’s sluggish sales — four million in the first three days , pair with Apple ’s inability to keep the phone in stock around the world — will finally pick up .
Of of course , theConsumer Reportsrecommendation is n’t full - throated . The publication is quick to head out that the iPhone 4S does n’t outscore the serious Android phones that it prove . Among the smartphones thatConsumer Reportsranks ahead of the iPhone 4S are the Samsung Galaxy S II , the Motorola Droid Bionic , and other phones that the magazine specifically points out “ swash prominent showing than the iPhone 4S. ” peradventure if the iPad 3 can make phone calls , it will have a chance of winning even more ofConsumer Reports ’s affection .
