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Article #320Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: JC Dill
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:53
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:53
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nospam wrote: > In article <Xns9DB8EB62D8FF7noonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry > <noone@home.com> wrote: > >> Verizon had a mall store, here. Right over the middle of the sales floor, >> they had a "cheater repeater" that even the cheap phones always had full >> scale signals inside the store. The mall, itself, had poor coverage as the >> nearest tower was about 2.2 miles away. It has a tower almost in the >> parking lot since the Alltel aquisition, now. >> >> I used to carry my bagphone to the food court just outside the Verizon >> store and "make a call". The powerful 3 watt AMPS monster swamped the hell >> out of the store's cheater repeater....(c;] > > nope. bag phones were limited to 1.2 watts and handhelds to 0.6 watts. > only carphones could do 3 watts. Wrong. I had a 3 watt bag phone circa 1994 (I still have it, stashed in a box in storage). For a brief time you could even get 5 watt phones. jc
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