A lot of thing can impact how well your telephone set is working , but it might be news program to you that one of those thing is your own body . A recent news report ( PDF ) commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers see the antenna performance of different smartphone models and found that both the hand you hold your phone in and the spike you bind it up to can dramatically change how well it ’s picking up radio signals .
In the chart below — created byQuartzand shared byDigg — you could see some of the specifics ( dBm abide for decibel - milliwatt ) . In brief : iPhonesdo not get along well . The iPhone SE , 6S , and 6S Plus all rank pretty poorly overall , and those model operate particularly poorly if you hold them in your left hired hand and to your remaining spike .
While this might seem like some 21st century insidious discrimination against southpaws , it ’s actually just a failure of tech when it comes to antenna positioning , which varies from phone to sound . It ’s not all bad news , though . The Microsoft Lumia 640 has the sound call contagion strength overall , regardless of which hand you agree it in , and some phone — like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge — do in reality act better in your leftover hand . In general , though , the right hand and right spike compounding is your best bet for a clear call .
So next time you ’re in the midsection of a conversation and switch hand , only to find that the call has suddenly become a little fuzzy , it ’s not just in your point . We might not be able to manually futz with the feeler like we used to , but it ’s still a quicksilver composition of hardware .
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