No iPhone 4 Recall Coming Today, WSJ

Wall Street Journal is reporting that a person familiar with the matter"has said that Apple will not recall the iPhone 4 with its faulty antenna at today's Apple news conference. The Wall Street Journal also says that instead of the 14 weeks of testing, the carriers were given far less time and a lot less testing devices than usual.

When the iPhone 4 reception problem first appeared, Apple suggests people buy a case or hold the iphone differently. A week later, they said that the problem lays in a software glitch that has been making signal reception look stronger than it is in all of its iPhone's since the original iPhone about three years ago. This explanation, however, only a few discontent, particularly after the product-quality watchdog Consumer Reports change all assertions, saying that Apples iPhone 4 has a hardware problem.

So it's anyone's guess what jobs will say and do it today's news conference, perhaps free bumpers? Free gift cards? We'll all find out today at the Apple's news conference.

"Apple Inc. released its newest iPhone despite internal concerns about its antenna reception, and gave wireless carriers far less time to test the phone than is typical, according to people familiar with the matter.

Since its release June 24, Apple's iPhone 4 has been dogged by reports of reception problems, yet demand for the smartphone has outstripped Apple's ability to keep it in stores.

The Cupertino, Calif., company has called a news conference at its headquarters to discuss the issue Friday. Apple doesn't plan to recall the phone, a person familiar with the matter said.

Apple engineers were aware of the risks associated with the new antenna design as early as a year ago, but Chief Executive Steve Jobs liked the design so much that Apple went ahead with its development, said another person familiar with the matter.

The electronics giant kept such a shroud of secrecy over the iPhone 4's development that the device didn't get the kind of real-world testing that would have exposed such problems in phones by other manufacturers, said people familiar with the matter."

Source: The Wall Street Journal