7/26/2010 by mountainviewcellphones.com

Apple has gone bananas. They are now posting “fake” test results for other competitor phones in an effort to show that their phone is as bad as everyone else’s device.  Sure the signal changes but not dramatically and that doesn’t necessarily effect the end result of a dropped call.

PC Magazine tried to recreate Apple’s result and found the Apple tests were overhyped.

 I think this is a serious lack of executive judgment here.  They are covering up their poor engineering decisions with smoke screens.  This one falls all on Steve Jobs and his executive team.  They goofed.  They are trying to avoid an all out recall.  People pay good money for a phone that doesn’t work…it’s a recipe for disaster. 

I’m wondering if these moves indicate in anyway the level of returns for the IPHONE 4.0  (or just the “I” as it’s not really a good “Phone”).  For whatever reason, customers now have an excuse to just give it back without justification and there may be some intense pressure on ATT as well. 

Lastly, this IPhone 4.0 antenna issue may really mess up the launch date of the IPhone 4.0 on Verizon and other carriers.  No internal testing group in Verizon or probably Sprint will allow this mess up to get to their customers without a rework of the device or inclusion of a fix from the point of purchase.

As the video makes clear (from the PC Magazine test) Android’s star just keeps on rising with the free advertising.      

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