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Old 09-20-2008, 12:29 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Default Metallic painting

You know.. if you cover a case which has an antenna in it (BTW the iPhone has separate antennae (around 10 I believe)for the receive, transmit for 2G and 3g , bluetooth, wifi ,gps ) with metal powder paint, you have to be blocking some of the RF transmissions to a degree ! . Don't think so ?.. some new car windshields have a very very thin metallic coating in them to help block heat and sunlight and because of this, a dash mounted GPS can thus suffer from poorer signal strength. True , the windshield coating as well as metallic paint on the iPhone won't completely block signals but with ,it seems everybody complaining of wide spread poor cell signal strengths, why would you want to take the chance and make it even a little bit poorer ??!!
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