Customer Reviews

Universal Cell Phone Reception Antenna Booster

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This is as effective as putting magnets on your fuel lines. It does nothing. I got one free with an accessory pack, the case and charger worked. Anyway, I tried the thing with three phones and it made zero difference. Not a single tiny difference. But I am an electrical and electronic engineer with 25 years experience, I make wireless internet gear for a living and I'm an Extra class amateur radio operator, so I knew it not only wouldn't but couldn't work. Basically you can't stick something inside the case of a phone and expect it to improve the signal for an antenna it has no attachment to. In many phones, like the Motorola v60i and Krazr I tried, this thing is inserted between the metal back cover and the metal chassis of the phone, there is no way it can do anything to the signal.

Laugh and move on. Keep your money. In Europe the vendors would have been fined tens of thousands of dollars for selling these things.

I've used these in 5 different phones since 1996. I live way out in a mountainous development. The low signal and dropped calls don't change one single bit when I add one of these to my phone. They are completely useless in my 12 years of experience.

I found no difference whatsoever in signal strength after using this devise. I think its a total waste of money! If this actually worked, all the phone manufacturers would have started installing this before selling their devices.
SCAAAAM !!!

I bought one three years ago, and I notice no difference at all. I recently bought a new phone with horrible reception (a Motorola RAZR; yeah, don't buy one). So I switched the little antenna booster from my old phone to the new RAZR thinking since the antenna booster didn't do a thing for my old phone, maybe now it would finally be useful!! BUT NO, the RAZR still sucks, and the bottom line is this: the reception on your cell phone is going to depend on the cell phone itself. A little rectangular piece of tape with gold paint on it isn't going to make any difference...

The premise is silly, that you can improve your antenna with a decal that cost them 2cents to manufacture. If it was that easy, don't you think that the world class RF engineers that design these cell phone would have already done it?

If it costs a penny, and worked, likely all cell phones would have one. The antenna is within the cellphone case and is of the proper length for the wavelength of the frequency used. This gold painted plastic sticker sticks on the inside behind the battery. There is no way possible for it to do anything at all. "If it sounds too good to be true, it ususally is." I received one of these for free and compared my "stickered" cell phone with an identical "unstickered" cell phone in rural MT with 0-1 bar reception. Both phones worked the same with or without the sticker. Save your pennies, and dollars of shipping. Use a Wilson cell phone antenna plugged directly into your hidden antenna port, or better a Wilson booster kit, for a real difference. Amazon is the best in selection and pricing and I have one for the office, home, and 2 cars, and they get me 5 bars where there were 0-1. Simple hook-up.

Simply put, this product was not worth the $1.99 I spent. It is simply a gold sticker. I tried this product on three seperate occasions in three different areas and still nothing. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!

I bought this exact same item on ebay, I didn't put much faith in it since it was only $1.00 for 5 antenna boosters. I am glad I didn't waste more than a dollar on it or I would have been really mad.

I purchased this for my GSM phone to get my Amazon order up to the level required for free shipping. The only use I can think of for this plastic and metal sticker would be to purchase a few hundred and make a pretty picture.

Save your money.....although the sticker was only .01c ....shipping and handeling was $2 for 2 gold "stickers".....I could have used a "gold star" sticker and got the same effect. both my husband and I tried these. We live in hill country, so not too good reception here...it did nothing. Husband works in city areas....nothing better then what he already had.