Electromagnetic engineer: Consumer Reports’ iPhone 4 study flawed

“Let me start off by saying that for much of my career, I worked as an electromagnetic engineer working on exactly the kind of issues that now face Apple on the iPhone 4,” Bob Egan blogs. “But this isn’t about me. It is about Consumer Reports and its not so scientific testing on the iPhone 4.”

Egan writes, “From what I can see in the reports, Consumer Reports replicated the same uncontrolled, unscientific experiments that many of the blogging sites have done.”

“I’m not saying that Apple has no h/w problem and they surely have a s/w issue. But I’m still wondering that if the software signal algorithm was not AFU’d in the first place how many, if anyone would talking about this ‘problem,'” Egan writes. “I also don’t know what part of this problem is Apple’s and what part is related to the AT&T network. And we don’t know how the observed effect is, or is not, similar to other devices.”

Egand writes, “We also don’t know if placing a finger on the antenna bridge is detuning the antenna or detuning the receiver itself. And neither does Consumer Reports.”

Full article, which explains in more detail why Consumer Reports’ iPhone 4 study was flawed, here.

MacDailyNews Take: We couldn’t be less surprised.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dale S.” for the heads up.]