More important to me than Consumer Reports not recommending it, is I don't recommend it. There is enough independent evidence
now that any informed person would stay away.... UNLESS they plan to use a case... which most people do anyway.....
The whole reason this is news is because it is Apple. When HP has a problem with a laptop their forums fill up with anger, and no one outside really knows or cares. I had a laptop a few years ago that had a slew of known issues, nothing was ever done about it, and no one outside of us forum whiners even knew or cared. Every company has plenty of issues with their electronic products, sometimes it gets fixed, and sometimes not. But with Apple's ability to sell more of a phone model in two days then even exist in most other phone models.... it's news. Add to that the fact there are blogs, raving lunatics and insecure forum hounds that
LIVE for anything negative about Apple.
My advice: Don't buy an iPhone 4 unless you want it in a case.
My buying advice: Get an iPad, and an older iPhone or Android phone to tether
