All of Consumer Reports’ ‘recommended’ smartphones suffer attenuation when held

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber wonders why Consumers Reports’ list of “Recommended” smartphones includes all of the smartphones suffering from ‘holding it wrong’ attenuation?

Palm Pre, HTC Incredible, Google (HTC) Nexus One, RIM BlackBerry 9650, Apple iPhone 3GS, HTC Droid Eris, and RIM BlackBerry 9700.

Curious.

Consumer Reports’s web page for this list is “behind a paywall that their coverage of the iPhone 4 antenna is not,” Gruber reports. “I’m sure they’ve been performing the exact same attenuation testing with all of these phones that they have with the iPhone 4, and that they have published precise technical standards regarding how much attenuation is acceptable to still qualify for a ‘Recommended’ rating.”

Full article – definitely on our “Recommended” list – here.

MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, at Consumer Reports, Apple’s iPhone 4 is held to a double standard.