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Article #350Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:24
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:24
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In article <4c433fa3$0$22140$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote: > > 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. there were three classifications, handheld, bag and car. since the car phone had an antenna on the roof or rear window and nowhere near your body, the power could be higher. > > 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. wrong. the cellphone only transmits so that one cell tower can hear it, not multiple cells. power *is* ramped down, which also saves on battery. that's why your phone gets very warm when it can't find service, it's at full power, hoping that it can ping some distant cell tower.
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