Engineers for Consumer Reports has confirmed that the iPhone 4 does have antenna problems.  

This may be a comfort for all iPhone 4 owners that are having problems with the AT&T warranty department, as I have been having with my Blackberry.  (I have had five replacements and the Warranty Department says they can only send refurbished phones.  Trust me, they're not refurbished.)

Apple says it discovered that an old software glitch affected other models.  The Consumer Reports engineers, who tested three iPhones,  disagree.  

"Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software that "mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength."

As mentioned in another blog title here, a judge just approved a monopoly lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over alleged abuse of locking consumers into questionable two to five year contracts. 

Finally, Dick Cheney's solution to war survival is feasible for something. Duct tape!  Until users can get a refund on the phone, the engineers recommend covering the defect with duct tape. See Consumer Reports here