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Originally Posted by tyche
Why can't the antenna be placed along the top? I don't understand how placing it on the lower side of the device helps reception.
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The entire metallic rim running around entire phone is an antenna.
There are two antennas in fact.
One for cellular signal, GSM and other stuff,
other for WiFi, bluetooth.
The antennas meet in lover left corner and at the top of the phone. So, if you hold phone naturally in your left hand (just like Steve Jobs held it several times during the presentation, while poking with right index finger on screen) your palm comes into contact with the thin gap between two antennas and you short-circuit the two antennas and drop a bar or two if the reception was not good to begin with.
I just do not understand what a "Bumper" is.
I thought, that according to description, it was a simple rubber (or perhaps plastic) band running around the edge of phone. It that is so, how is it possible that a strip of rubber, or whatever material it is costs $30?
I am really confused. Are Americans really willing to pay 30 hard earned, honest dollars for a flimsy piece of rubber with an Apple logo that contains $0.2 worth of material and $0.8 worth of labor?
Another thing that somebody needs to explain to me is: what the hell is a "dropped call"? I have been using mobile phones here in Europe for a long time and when you make a call, anywhere, anytime here you stay connected until you finish the call. Period.