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Article #580Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: John Richards
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:00
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:00
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"Peter Lawrence" <hummbaby@aol.com> wrote in message news:i1ktio$9q1$1@news.eternal-september.org... > On 7/14/10 5:32 AM, SMS wrote: >> >> 3) increasing power helps for transmitting but not receiving. > > But that's were the most help is needed. The biggest problem with today's > tiny cell phones is not that they can receive a signal from a cell. tower > but that they are not able to transmit back a signal that can reach the > cell. tower. Not so. The receive antenna on the tower is not under the tight size restrictions you have on a hand-held. The towers employ high gain antennas and complex (physically large) receiver circuitry. -- John Richards
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