This has been discussed in other threads and no need to reinforce that Jesus Diaz is an idiot.
We all know he is an idiot.
The fact that he called Applecare to confirm something that Apple released a press release to say, does not say much for his investigative abilities. That he tried to create a story out of confirming a press release is even worse. That some monkeys out here are actual rehashing and spreading the story of a wanna-be journalist confirming a press release.. well it is just sad.
Let us recap again. Apple never said there was a problem with reception on the iPhone 4. Apple said they were implementing a software fix to better display the bars that represent the available signal so people have better information about this.
Jesus Diaz, being the idiot he is calls Applecare and asks them if this software update will fix reception issues. Which is a weird question given Apple just said there are no reception issues, and they said exactly what the software update would do.
So basically he called up Applecare and annoyed them for no reason and then published a "story" about it on his kindergarten blog.
Kudos to him and for Gizmodo for their standard of consistently sucking.
Let me reiterate this again, because clearly many people like the OP did not read the press release or not understand it.
Apple did not say there is a reception problem. Apple did not say their software update would fix the reception problem which they do not even say exists.
Apple said that themselves. They published in a press release. No need for any third parties to call applecare and verify this like they were breaking a story. JESUS H DIAZ!