2018 iPhones May Feature Liquid Crystal Polymer Antennas For Faster LTE Speeds

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According to KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a well known researcher of future apple technology, the 2018 iPhones will have Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) antennas. In addition to that, he believes the phone will support 4X4 MIMO standards that when used with the LCP antennas will allow much higher sustained speeds on the iPhones. If true, this will be much welcomed by the Apple fan base. Who wouldn't like better LTE speeds?

This new research note follows on from Kuo’s predictions last week that Apple will upgrade to Intel’s XMM 7560 and Qualcomm Snapdragon X20 modems in its next wave of smartphones, a move which is designed to enable faster LTE transmission speeds. Both of those modems offer support for 4×4 MIMO technology.
 
Who cares, put the fingerprint scanner back on the phone. No way in hell I'm using the facial stuff.
 
Merc1138 said:
Give me reception. Gigabit speed with no data cap means fuck all if you can't get signal.
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It been years since I had any kind of reception issuse outside a odd ball day here and there where they proably doing maintenance or something.
 
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I would just like the ability to understand what the other person is saying, especially over blue-tooth.
 
vegeta535 said:
It been years since I had any kind of reception issuse outside a old ball day here and there where they proably doing maintenance or something.
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SF bay area, SJ and the entirety of silicon valley, SF itself, Oakland, North Bay(Santa Rosa and such) I'm all over the place in and out of buildings due to my job, reception sucks. Hell, at home right now I've got two phones on different carriers, one of the phones bounces between 1 and 2 bars where I'm sitting the other is at 4, I walk over to the bathroom the 4 bar phone barely gets 1 bar and the 2 bar phone gets 3-4. I go to the office and I can walk around with phones on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, and find constant dead spots of no service every 10-15 feet on one phone or the other(although I know which restroom is a cellular black hole, so I use that one when taking a crap so the phone can't ring and bother me). Visit a half dozen job sites in the south bay throughout the day just last week, reception is all over the place. I can pick up two of the same model phone on the same carrier and see the same results in the same spots at the same time. The cell networks are terrible. Just yesterday I had to order a microcell for a job site because it's such crap.

What region for you is "here" that you don't have issues?
 
almalino said:
Liquid antennas? Will it spill when I break my glass iPhone?
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This, as time goes on im slowly leaning to eventually getting an iphone to try out (been rocking my galaxy s5 for the last few years). i really dont buy phones that often so the price of the iphone doesnt bother me, but there is no way i will touch a phone thats body is partially made of glass. give me all metal or dont bother with a phone of that price. Tired of form triumphing over function in computers/electronics nowadays
 
bigboymuscles678 said:
(been rocking my galaxy s5 for the last few years)
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The S5 is a not an ideal phone, but with a few minor changes and updates it could be. I'm on my second one. If they put a bigger battery in it, dumped the heart rate sensor, fingerprint sensor, selfie camera and updated the guts, I'd probably love it. Oh, and it has to have Qi and a removable battery. I've been waiting for a better phone FOR ME for a long time. Not seeing it, so I'm keeping this old thing and somewhat enjoying not spending more money.

Doing stupid crap like making the back out of glass, removing the headphone jack, sealing the battery in and rounding the edges of the displays makes me look elsewhere. Plastic backs are fine with me. One display is plenty. One camera is plenty.
 
The all new iPhone XS now with more, bigger antennas giving you more ways to hold it wrong!
 
Merc1138 said:
SF bay area, SJ and the entirety of silicon valley, SF itself, Oakland, North Bay(Santa Rosa and such) I'm all over the place in and out of buildings due to my job, reception sucks. Hell, at home right now I've got two phones on different carriers, one of the phones bounces between 1 and 2 bars where I'm sitting the other is at 4, I walk over to the bathroom the 4 bar phone barely gets 1 bar and the 2 bar phone gets 3-4. I go to the office and I can walk around with phones on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, and find constant dead spots of no service every 10-15 feet on one phone or the other(although I know which restroom is a cellular black hole, so I use that one when taking a crap so the phone can't ring and bother me). Visit a half dozen job sites in the south bay throughout the day just last week, reception is all over the place. I can pick up two of the same model phone on the same carrier and see the same results in the same spots at the same time. The cell networks are terrible. Just yesterday I had to order a microcell for a job site because it's such crap.

What region for you is "here" that you don't have issues?
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Inside or outside? If you are seeing deadspots outside then it's definitely on the carrier to fix the issues with their coverage. If you're having issues inside of a building, then it really comes down to the building owner to have someone come in and fix the signal issues.

One of our buildings is basically a glorified bomb shelter. Very thick outside concrete walls, steel roof and steel paneling that supports the concrete between floors, and then interior concrete walls as well. If I opened one of the exterior doors, coverage would come into the building and you could talk on a phone without issue and I want to say have around -70dB signal at that. As soon as you shut the metal door, you can only pick up around -115dB near the door, and you'll just have no service if you wander more than 10 feet from where the door is. At that point it doesn't really matter what any RF has for signal outside, you're not getting it to penetrate the building. In order to have cell service inside, we had to install a cell repeater on the roof and put in indoor cones. That costs a decent chunk of change, and we had it quoted by a cell company and it was very expensive for them to do it. We did it ourselves for much less, but unless someone goes out of their way to actually fix the problem, you simply can't get coverage inside of certain buildings.
 
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