Hello, Bill Motzing. On Wed, 09 May 2007 23:49:39 -0400 you said:
> I worked for years at a leading consumer electronics industrial design > firm. We designed phones for LG. Our understanding was always that no > antenna on any cell phone has ever been functional--purely aesthetic. > > I'd be interested in any actual proof to the contrary... When using phones with extendable antenna, I have always gotten better reception with it extended - even when there were contacts on both the top and bottom (so it would functional either fully extended or fully collapsed). Maybe the phones YOU designed had internal antennas resulting in the external one being purely aesthetic, but that has not been the case in any such phone that I've used. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol Tips for Evil Geniuses: 1. I will not experiment on myself.
