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Article #585Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: Peter Lawrence
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:41
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:41
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On 7/14/10 11:00 AM, John Richards wrote: > "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. It doesn't matter how high gain the antennas on the cell towers are if the radio signal from your cell. phone is too weak to reach it, or if its signal is so weak that its signal-to-noise ratio is too low to make the signal usable. - Peter
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