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To: carranza2 who wrote (11839)	5/22/2001 7:40:03 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

External FCC pictures shows no external antenna. Anyone who has an external antenna is considered slightly out of date in GSM-land. Extended antennas are like B&W television, few remember them, but used as an effect in movies,etc, signals "this happened a long time ago". That is: - Nokia was first, and still the almost only one, with handsets without a protruding antenna, instead integrated, inside the case, above the display of the handset. Something users like because the protruding antenna makes it easier to slip the phone in and out of a pocket, a purse, and if dropped, the antenna isn't broken. That extendable, always broken US-antenna (that narrow extra thing one pulls out from the external antenna) is .. well.. something difficult to remember, from the analog NMT time of the 80s. But, to strike a nerve, a longer antenna helps a little for coverage, so it is also a question on the coverage the operator knows he/she has, how dense the grid of base stations is. This hierarchically gets into the question of 900-1800 (1900) MHz and max transmit power, rural and urban stuff, investments and population densities and penetration. Anyway, no civilized person has a handset with an external antenna, and only mumies have this extendable and broken one. Civilized teenagers keep their 32XX or 33XX in their jeans pocket, no room for an external antenna. Same as service crews in the field, they do not want any external antennas broken when dropping their 33XX. (they like it better than the 62XX because it is easier to switch the broken plastic cover) Same for women, they don't like the external antenna hooked up and spilling whatever they have in their purse when fumbling for the handset. Ilmarinen That leaves some who like a really big antenna, although everyone laughs at the Ericsson variation makitorppa.fi yes?? (a picture is better than a thousand words, sometimes) Maybe Ericsson thought it was cute, that little thick thingy on the T29 and T39?? (all models of the link not yet available, the hope of the future the available models makitorppa.fi )