Geek Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iphone-reception-boost-glass.jpg" alt="iphone-reception-boost-glass" title="iphone-reception-boost-glass" width="620" height="434" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13917" /></p> <p>Here’s one of the stranger tips I’ve seen to boost your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> reception; put it in a glass. Yea, like a water glass. I can imagine a surge of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/05/iphone-4-humor/">funny pictures</a> featuring people talking to water cups, but apparently for some people this actually works.</p> <p>The tip was discovered by an author at <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/03/15/the-weirdest-but-working-iphone-4-reception-trick-i-have-ever-heard/">TheNextWeb</a>, who found that they had no reception in a dungeon-ish restaurant:</p> <blockquote><p>a few years ago one of the waitresses… discovered (how?) that if you put a phone in an empty glass it dramatically improves the reception. The Pasta e Basta restaurant is basically stuck in a concrete basement so reception has always been awful. But since they found out about this trick they at least have had enough reception to make and receive calls.</p> <p>The waiter gave me glass, I put my iPhone in, reluctantly, and lo and behold: I got 3 bars and no 3G but some GPRS. Not perfect but a huge improvement from the ‘No signal’ message I got earlier.</p></blockquote> <p>Who would have guessed? </p> <p>I decided to try it out myself. I have AT&T and live in one of those famous reception dark spots, so it’s pretty easy for me to find a place where the iPhone has no reception. I put the iPhone in a glass and… still no service. Just for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/fun/">fun</a> I went to a place where I usually have a few bars and it did increase one bar of reception, but I get the same effect from setting the iPhone on a table and just not holding the iPhone at all. Not too impressive. The next step was to beat the dead horse, so naturally I took this a step further and tried to make a phone call with the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> in a glass. Big surprise, it’s a terrible experience. You can’t talk normally (hint: there’s a reason phones aren’t made to resemble a water glass) so I put the iPhone on speaker mode instead, this caused the calls recipient to hear themselves talk in a super annoying echo chamber.</p> <p>No dice for me, but maybe it’ll work in a bind for you.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/591_l01MIQSy0vTpRWlx7C-pZck/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/591_l01MIQSy0vTpRWlx7C-pZck/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/591_l01MIQSy0vTpRWlx7C-pZck/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/591_l01MIQSy0vTpRWlx7C-pZck/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5WEFYq4KrHM:_7h05dA_uT4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/5WEFYq4KrHM" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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