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Where are the antennas ?
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They are on the bottom people! All Many phones are putting them on the bottom to make the sar rating appear lower. The iPhone does this also. Plug yourself some headphones into your pc, make a call on your phone move the wireto your headphones around, and see where the buzzing is the loudest... The bottom
also I belive the wifi antennia is on top, one of the semiconductor Corp tear downs pointed the wifi chip and it's antennias as being on top.
also I belive the wifi antennia is on top, one of the semiconductor Corp tear downs pointed the wifi chip and it's antennias as being on top.
This is correct. The main antenna module for the phone is on the bottom. GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth on the top. It is deceptive to say that the antennas are the bezel, ring around the camera, headphone jack etc. or imply that these are the main antennas because they are not. The marketing here is talking about the enhancement and/or reduction of interference that these metal features can provide (they use the word integrate). It is like wrapping a TV antenna in tinfoil. If these features were truly the only antennas as some people in this thread seem to believe, there would be no reason for the plastic back and we could have a an entirely aluminum phone like the 2G without the plastic antenna cover at the bottom.
I am not sure which side of the argument you are referring to as wrong, but there are a lot of facts in the FCC documentation which states the distance between the wifi/bluetooth antenna and the WWAN (cell) antenna is 7.5 cm, the distance between the edges of the top and bottom antennas. The metal bezel is not 7.5 cm away from anything on the iPhone. I trust the FCCs definition of the antenna location vs marketing which has been removed from the US Apple site.