Apple IPhone 4 Fails to Get Consumer Reports Backing

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Consumer Reports said it isn’t recommending Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 following tests confirming the handset has a hardware flaw that causes signal quality to degrade.

“The problem seems to be a design flaw, and it is significant,” Mike Gikas, senior electronics editor for Consumer Reports, said today in an interview. The publication has recommended the three previous iPhone models.