Already posted countless times

[NFS4]

I ordered a hands free kit and a car charger for my new Kyocera cell phone (can't beat $10 total on ebay shipped...damn hands free was $16.95 and charger was $29.95 at the AllTell store:|)

Anyway, included with the car charger and hands free kit was a free AB Antenna Booster. It's a razor thing gold looking thing that you are supposed to put it nearby the battery or near the antenna.

My question is, do these things really work in your experience?

 

[pulse8]

I've wondered this, too. If anyone has any info on it, it'd be appreciated.

 

[GoldenBear]

There was a thread on this quite a while back and TechTV did a report on it (I think it was on Fresh Gear), and both came to the same conclusion.

It does nothing.

So you were ripped off.

 

[perry]

There have been several threads on these little things in the past couple of months. I would go find em but I'm lazy. They're snake oil. Sending the money to me will yield as much improvement in reception as those gold stickers.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Suprised you haven't seen this before but to answer your question NO.Its just a gimmick,the only way to increase signal strength is to make sure the antenna is fully extended.

 

[NFS4]

<< There was a thread on this quite a while back and TechTV did a report on it (I think it was on Fresh Gear), and both came to the same conclusion.

It does nothing.

So you were ripped off. >>


If you read my post, you'd see that I didn't pay for it. It was just included in the box.

R.I.F

 

[GoldenBear]

My point exactly

 

[yakko]

It makes a big difference. It will usually increase your signal strength by about 100 times. Motorolla, Nokia, Erickson and all the other companies only spend a few million on R&amp;D so they do not really have the resources to find a simple solution such as this.

 

[Maximus96]

i bought one of these POS on ebay for $5...didn't do sh!t to my phone...no increase whatsoever...$5...not a huge loss

 

[Amused]

I've seen a lot of people say it's worthless. But I've never seen an actual test or review done on it.

I'm curious about that.