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Article #394Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:01
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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. 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.
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