Woops.

Consumer Reports just published their review and testing report on the iPhone 4. Not only do they recommend against buying the phone but they pretty much call Apples recent "explanation" BS.

CR iPhone 4 Review

"...we can't recommend the iPhone 4.

We reached this conclusion after testing all three of our iPhone 4s (purchased at three separate retailers in the New York area) in the controlled environment of CU's radio frequency (RF) isolation chamber. In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test engineers connected the phones to our base-station emulator, a device that simulates carrier cell towers (see video: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed). We also tested several other AT&T phones the same way, including the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. None of those phones had the signal-loss problems of the iPhone 4."

"Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software that "mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength."

"The tests also indicate that AT&T's network might not be the primary suspect in the iPhone 4's much-reported signal woes."

Interesting that the iPhone 4 was the only phone they have tested to have this problem which undermines greatly Apple's claim that all cell phones have this problem.

Not to worry though, there is an immediate solution,

"We did, however, find an affordable solution for suffering iPhone 4 users: Cover the antenna gap with a piece of duct tape or another thick, non-conductive material. It may not be pretty, but it works."

So there you go, no problems. I wonder if Apple's next batch of phones will include a strip of duct tape?

What am I saying, "include". Packages of iTape will no doubt soon be available for purchase; three stips to a package for $29.95.