I don't get why people object to antennas. If it gets you better signal strength, why not have it? I guess I must be abnormal, since I want the best signal and the farthest range available, whether it's on WiFi or cellular, regardless of the need for an antenna stub.
Because the GSM community gave them up quite some time ago, so they're not used to it.
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If it gets you better signal strength, why not have it? I guess I must be abnormal, since I want the best signal and the farthest range available, whether it's on WiFi or cellular, regardless of the need for an antenna stub.
Agreed 100%. The last two CDMA phones I've had have both had antennas, and after a short while you don't notice their presence. Considering how good Verizon's coverage is, too, I don't mind. CDMA has a greater propensity towards antennas because of its power use -- the better the reception, the less power CDMA uses, so the longer the battery life. (GSM does something somewhat similar, but the power savings are less AFAIK.)
All that said, internal antenna design is steadily improving as the years go by. Still, even on the newest internal-antenna phones I notice little instructions to avoid holding a phone by a particular area. <shrug>
I don't get why people object to antennas. If it gets you better signal strength, why not have it? I guess I must be abnormal, since I want the best signal and the farthest range available, whether it's on WiFi or cellular, regardless of the need for an antenna stub.
I can understand the argument for WiFi. Perhaps external aerials are more necessary in the USA because of the cr@p mobile systems/coverage they have there? ;-) I haven't noticed a problem with battery life or signal strength with my MDA Compact on GSM due to having an internal aerial!
Its a matter of personal choice. Personally an external aerial just looks so 90's, adds to the bulk, gets caught in pockets, is a potentially fragile projection, and is UGLY. Look at the XDA1 against the later XDA models.
I don't get why people object to antennas. If it gets you better signal strength, why not have it? I guess I must be abnormal, since I want the best signal and the farthest range available, whether it's on WiFi or cellular, regardless of the need for an antenna stub.
I can understand the argument for WiFi. Perhaps external aerials are more necessary in the USA because of the cr@p mobile systems/coverage they have there? ;-) I haven't noticed a problem with battery life or signal strength with my MDA Compact on GSM due to having an internal aerial!
Its a matter of personal choice. Personally an external aerial just looks so 90's, adds to the bulk, gets caught in pockets, is a potentially fragile projection, and is UGLY. Look at the XDA1 against the later XDA models.
Agreed. Plus take it on an airplane and you get a totally different reaction from flight crews...."Ah-ha, an antenna. You can't use that onboard."
I can understand the argument for WiFi. Perhaps external aerials are more necessary in the USA because of the cr@p mobile systems/coverage they have there? ;-) I haven't noticed a problem with battery life or signal strength with my MDA Compact on GSM due to having an internal aerial!
While I don't personally like exteranl antennas, you have to understand that carriers in the USA have to deal with a a much larger coverage area than the UK, or Europe. US carriers have to try to cover a lot bigger area, in many cases, sparsely populated, with the same type of signal. It's not that the US systems are cr*p, they just have to try to cover about 5 times the area of your carrier with roughly the same number of subscribers.
It's not that the US systems are cr*p, they just have to try to cover about 5 times the area of your carrier with roughly the same number of subscribers.
Agreed :wink: , but the only problem in North America is that its tooo behind europe in the telecommunication technologies :evil:
Agreed :wink: , but the only problem in North America is that its tooo behind europe in the telecommunication technologies :evil:
Not really. We've got substantial EVDO employment (at least in the US) and Pocket PC phones actually available on the market that can leverage that EVDO. It's not quite the same for UMTS in Europe.
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