Mobile Phone Antenna

[menace 2]

My "car" phone like its owner is as dumb as dog shit (DADS) .
All it can do is make/recieve phone calls and sms (which is pretty piss poor for a mobile phone eh).

DADS battery lasts for up to a week between recharging
DADS has an external antenna jack and a 6dB antenna gives at least 33% more range (guesstimated but it's heaps)
DADS costs $25 on Ebay and is Telstra blue tick approved.
I use a prepaid sim in DADS so if it gets stolen/lost/run over/dunked/irradiated or bio contaminated I just go Pffft and buy another $25 phone.

What has that got to do with smart phone reception and this thread?

Lots, because all I do is divert my "smart" phone number to my "dumb as dogshit" phone, turn my smart phone off and leave it safe or even at home and then my "smart" phone has heaps of range because as others mention Induction Cradles are very inefficient.

does that mean you just use a cheap phone that has an ariel jack and Bluetooth ?.

[the evil twin]

does that mean you just use a cheap phone that has an ariel jack and Bluetooth ?.

Yep, ZTE T100. Gazillions of them around so accessories and the phone itself are cheap as chips.

From memory the patch lead (phone jack to FME connector) was $1.99 delivered and it happens to also fit the Telstra badged Sierra Wireless Internet dongles so that is my wireless internet taken care of as well