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Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended

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From: SMS
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:53
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On 17/07/10 9:01 PM, nospam wrote:

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> nope. bag phones were limited to 1.2 watts and handhelds to 0.6 watts.
> only carphones could do 3 watts.

Not true. The bag phones were a car phone with a big battery. You may be 
thinking of the later handheld AMPS phones.

> however, none of that matters. if you were close enough to a 'cheater
> repeater', the transmit power of the phone would have been
> automatically ramped down, regardless of its maximum.

Also not true.
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:53:51 -0700
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