VZW phone antennas
Why is that most VZW phones have the extendable antenna? Unlike Cingular's stub antennas....
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buy an LG 😁 as far as I know all of our LG phones have stub antennas. They're easy enough to replace as well, so if it bothers you that much buy a stub antenna(probably for less than 5 dollars, with shipping) and swap it out
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Lg 8000 and 8100 have retractable antennas, I have the 8000 and the only way I can get it to work in my local walmart is to pull up the antenna
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wfine81 said:
Lg 8000 and 8100 have retractable antennas, I have the 8000 and the only way I can get it to work in my local walmart is to pull up the antenna
Your inside a metal building with a massive amount of computer interference it would not matter if your antenna were 20 feet long. Wal-Mart has those little wireless computers that they carry around that conflicts with cellular signals.
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I always get full signal inside my local walmart, on both phones Cingular and Vzw.
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One walmart near by I have full reception EVERY where, the other as soon as I walk in the reception walks to zero, I have to pull up the antenna just to make a call, my point was that pulling up the antenna helps a little bit, not drastically but sometmes it is enought to get a call out
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wfine81 said:
One walmart near by I have full reception EVERY where, the other as soon as I walk in the reception walks to zero, I have to pull up the antenna just to make a call, my point was that pulling up the antenna helps a little bit, not drastically but sometmes it is enought to get a call out
I agree
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Thats strange...if i touch my antenna on my 8000 during a call, the phone can go from full to no service, and drop the call! Its unfortunate that i forget this most of the time.
And I do think its strange that there are no internal antennas on verizons network, except for maybe the blackberry, but only the nextel blackberry has an external antenna
And I do think its strange that there are no internal antennas on verizons network, except for maybe the blackberry, but only the nextel blackberry has an external antenna
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I replaced the antenna on my vx7000 and couldn't be happier. It's now 1/3 as long as it used to be. Once I get my new 8100 I will be fitting it with a shorter antenna as well. I've never had a coverage issue so I could care less about the antenna. In fact with the replacement one in there are 3 bars, I just took it out and it went to 2 with no antenna at all! Doesn't make a bit of difference to me.
That's the only gripe I have about VZW phones is there isn't one with an internal antenna. I used to have a T68i and then T68m and kind of miss the overall size of it. But so what. The keys were microscopic and so was the screen. Playing blue-tooth multi-player games was cool though.
That's the only gripe I have about VZW phones is there isn't one with an internal antenna. I used to have a T68i and then T68m and kind of miss the overall size of it. But so what. The keys were microscopic and so was the screen. Playing blue-tooth multi-player games was cool though.
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I forgot about that phone. I've never even had someone ask about it. I have little faith in that screen holding up for more than a year though. All it is is a 6015 with a screen that's likely to break and no analog. Maybe if the price were about half it might be more popular.
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