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Wi-Ex, a company making indoor mobile phone boosters, has carried out a survey into the things people do to get reception.
Apparently 62% have done something special to improve reception with 46% having to go outside to use the phone.
Below are some of the ways mobile phone users have tried to boost their reception:
"Stood in the closet with the light off"
"Stand in my daughter's room while touching the chain from her ceiling fan"
"Stand on higher things like a couch or chair"
"Stood by metal [stuff]"
"Lay perfectly still without moving"
"Run back and forth"
"Moved my arm around"
"Held my head at a funny angle"
"Gone upstairs"
"Hang out the window"
"Kept moving my cell phone until I got a signal - and ended up pulling a matrix move as I tried to keep the signal"
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Posted: 2007-03-14 12:57:43
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Why has it been entitled "11 stupid ways..."?
Some of these are quite practical and technically appropriate...
"Lay perfectly still without moving" - quite true in my bedroom where I have a weak 3g signal. I have to lay down in one particular spot on the bed.
"Gone upstairs" - again in my house true. O2 had good reception downstairs but crap upstairs. T Mobile on the other hand is completely the other way around!
"Hang out the window" - this works a treat in my house where I literally (and until I experimented I thought this was a joke) can step out the door or hang out the window and I can make a video call.
All 11 seem very fair to me...
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Posted: 2007-03-14 13:34:45
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luks like tht guy is giving some passer by a finger!!
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Posted: 2007-03-14 14:45:42
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One of the best is to keep your hand off the antenna area. Everyone knows it but a few go by it. I have personally experienced it. Call quality improves greatly.
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Posted: 2007-03-14 14:50:00
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if i am at home, i have to go in the garden... i go into the greenhouse if it's raining!
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Posted: 2007-03-14 15:10:31
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Trouble is that when your hand isn't over the antenna area, you don't (at least me) get good grip on the phone so you might drop, someone might run up and grab it etc.
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Posted: 2007-03-14 21:30:43
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better reception there? reception was the first main benchmarks for phones now it seems to be taken for granted with the implementation of todays technology
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Posted: 2007-03-15 20:35:28
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