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I need to boost reception in my area and would like to know is there a way to do this with my iphone 4 or 4s. Do these work because the phones antenna edge is exposed and makes contact with. However, application support for ios 7 has become more and more of an issue since it was discontinued. First they were trying to gain room inside the iphone 4 so that they could make it thinner and have a larger battery, and secondly, they were trying to get the antennas outside of the device.
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