HTC Phone Has 35 Times Fewer Complaints Than iPhone4

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HTC Corp. said its phone model named by Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs as having antenna signal problems received 35 times fewer complaints than for the iPhone 4.

“The phone that was called out in the Apple press conference, the HTC Droid Eris, has experienced a customer inquiry of less than two-one hundredths of one percent - 35 times less,” than the iPhone 4, Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg News questions today. Jobs said July 16 that 0.55 percent of customers of Apple’s newest phone called with complaints about radio frequency performance.