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Iphone 6 antenna
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The two white plastic strips on the back of the 6/6+ are more receptive. I read somewhere that the Apple logo on the back is also an antenna.
I noticed this as well. I would hope that the antenna bands on the back of the phone improved it 
I noticed this as well. I would hope that the antenna bands on the back of the phone improved it
Pieces of plastic improved the signal?
Regardless, the signal reception needed improving because the i5 and 5S were lousy on that front.
I thought they were there b.c the antenna cannot pass through the metal frame. In the past, they had the splits in the frame.
my experience has been mixed coming over from an iPhone 5 up to an iPhone 6.
i think the 6 does hold LTE longer and operates better at slightly lower dbm levels; however, when LTE is non existent, the iPhone 5 seems to have a more sensitive antenna that can pull in 4G better. (compared against the iPhone 5 which my wife is now using) the 5 can show marginal service (can be unusable or usable, dependeing on the situation) while the 6 shows "no service."
i think the 6 does hold LTE longer and operates better at slightly lower dbm levels; however, when LTE is non existent, the iPhone 5 seems to have a more sensitive antenna that can pull in 4G better. (compared against the iPhone 5 which my wife is now using) the 5 can show marginal service (can be unusable or usable, dependeing on the situation) while the 6 shows "no service."
Umm yeah...it is a improved design, their most advanced iPhone ever made so far, with the best possible antenna design that they could come up with at the time, I would expect it to have better service, going from 4/4S to 5 gave better signal and service, same thing with this, superior antenna design
I believe that the metal top and bottom case sections are the antennas. (Just as with the original HTC phone that used the same setup. Apple has a cross license with HTC.)
The plastic strips isolate the two antennas from the middle piece of the back.
According to the FCC SAR report, the bottom is the primary antenna, but either one can be used for any band.
FYI I don't think doing a speed test of two phones directly next to each other is very scientific at all....theres a ton of reasons but one being that one device is always going to be blasting its signal back "louder" than the other device and even minor interference will cause dropped packets....I mean these phones can put out a max of what 1-1.6watts?! Plus to get the right comparisons you'd need to make sure they were both on the same serving cell....
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Makes sense....the bottom of the phone is a popular spot for antenna placement to meet the SAR requirements. I did not know Apple had a cross license with HTC...pretty interesting, I knew about the HTC Antenna design and figured Apple "got around" the patents somehow but I guess they didn't need to. I've heard the NFC antenna is just behind the Apple logo, not sure how accurate that is though.
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Makes sense....the bottom of the phone is a popular spot for antenna placement to meet the SAR requirements. I did not know Apple had a cross license with HTC...pretty interesting, I knew about the HTC Antenna design and figured Apple "got around" the patents somehow but I guess they didn't need to. I've heard the NFC antenna is just behind the Apple logo, not sure how accurate that is though.
