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Article #327Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: JC Dill
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:29
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:29
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nospam wrote: > In article <i1u8ij$7h1$3@speranza.aioe.org>, JC Dill > <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> yep, i have one somewhere. i can't believe people carried those things. >> I didn't "carry" mine - it lived on the center of the seat of my truck. > > i remember seeing people carrying them. > >>> as i recall, the fcc limited output power to 0.6w on a handheld, 1.2w >>> on a bagphone and 3w on a car phone. >> You recall wrong. Circa 1992-1994 you could buy a 3 watt bag phone. > > as i said in the other post, it had to have been more than just a bag > phone. You are mistaken. It was a bag phone. It looks like one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Bag_Phone >> I'm told that circa 1990 you could buy a 5 watt bag phone. > > specific model? I never saw one in person - was just told about them. (The reception I got in the mountains with my 3 watt phone was good enough that I didn't go hunting for a 5 watt model.) Here's a reference to one: <http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1201533-external-antenna> jc
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X-Google-Thread: 110038,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fa874,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidd668eef4dc,gidaa617e85ca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!open-news-network.org!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet Subject: Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:29:28 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: <i1uhhl$i0c$1@speranza.aioe.org> References: <Xns9DB610031F9CCnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <i1m8iq$q7u$1@news.eternal-september.org> <2gd246h1dm904pbp9mm4a6hse2hk6hqfmp@4ax.com> <Xns9DB8EB62D8FF7noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <180720100001450673%nospam@nospam.invalid> <dbw0o.19896$lS1.7928@newsfe12.iad> <180720100149520637%nospam@nospam.invalid> <i1u8ij$7h1$3@speranza.aioe.org> <180720100339265088%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: OMIq7WZIH71VZQpBoAm01Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228)