[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agoDoes more expensive phones have better reception?message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down12
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareDoes more expensive phones have better reception?[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-square00L10@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoWell you can definitely impact the reception with the antenna design, and the quality of the hardware also plays a role to some degree. Wasn’t there a thing with one of those iPhones where the reception was drastically worse depending how you would hold the phone in your hand.
minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoYeah, iPhone 4 was notorious for having antenna issues if you held it in a certain way
minus-squarevladmech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoThe iPhone 4’s Antennagate, yeah! Holding it in your left hand would bridge a gap and cause reception to crap out, wild stuff
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoYeah but that was our fault for not talking with our arms stretched straight up.
Well you can definitely impact the reception with the antenna design, and the quality of the hardware also plays a role to some degree.
Wasn’t there a thing with one of those iPhones where the reception was drastically worse depending how you would hold the phone in your hand.
Yeah, iPhone 4 was notorious for having antenna issues if you held it in a certain way
The iPhone 4’s Antennagate, yeah! Holding it in your left hand would bridge a gap and cause reception to crap out, wild stuff
Yeah but that was our fault for not talking with our arms stretched straight up.