Boeing says the procedures it developed can reduce the time it takes to test wireless signals from two weeks to just 10 hours.

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In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test engineers connected the phones to our base-station emulator, a device that simulates carrier cell towers (seevideo: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed).

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This test is designed to address situations where neither social nor algorithmic signals are sufficient.

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There were some faulty technical signals late last week, and today we can have a real test of this accelerated uptrend.

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With around four years to go at that point, it is doubtful that red warning signals were flashing over the 2014 hosts Brazil. (Some may argue that with the test event of a Confederations Cup in 2013 the organizers had less time).

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