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Their opinion carries a lot of weight, especially with the non-tech oriented audience Apple is trying to woo, and Consumer Reports have finally weighed in on the Apple 4. After their legendary rigorous testing, Steve Jobs is not going to be happy to hear this from them…

It’s official. Consumer Reports’ engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal. Due to this problem, we can’t recommend the iPhone 4.

Ouch. So much for the claims of several Apple focused blogs (and some Apple flaks) that this is just a problem for hyper-critical geeks.

However, Steve Jobs is going to be even less happy to hear the solution Consumer Reports suggests…

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

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.

Duct tape????

Somewhere in Cupertino, a man in a black turtleneck is crying himself to sleep.