We examine the antenna designs that provide GPS functionality to mobile phones and why most phones ... on the fact that location will only be needed when the phone is in the user’s hand or an in-car ...

Antennas were installed on the roof of a car – the location for greatest performance. These were coupled to a standard Cel-Fi Go unit for in-car calling. This handy device is like a mini mobile tower ...

Cellular signal boosters use big antennas to improve the coverage in your home or car. These are ... I’m one of PCMag’s mobile analysts. That means I check out phones, hotspots, and mobile ...

There are still some mobile high frequency operators that have respectable car-mounted antenna farms, but they have nothing on Alfred H. Grebe. In 1919, he fitted a medium wave transmitter in his ...

[Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)] is at it again with the foil tape, and this time he’s whipped up a stealthy mobile sunroof antenna for the ... a slot in the roof of his car, [Ben] created a “virtual ...

But one major blemish kept it more geek than chic: that stray-dog-ugly and easily broken external antenna. At first, phone manufacturers thought the face-lift would be easy: Just stick the wire ...

During all of this, your phone is unable to enter a deep sleep. A-GPS (Assisted GPS) partially solves this, by sending the navigational message to your mobile ... the GPS antenna or avoiding ...