Bluetooth / Phone Antenna Location

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The Legend
 Exiled Scot in Maidstone
Can anyone tell me definitively where the antenna for the phone is in a roadster ? I have seen several different answers, and am a bit concerned as my BMW Sports stubby was snapped so I have ordered a new one that is shorter... The FM reception on the current (broken-but-still-attached) one seems okay, possibly slightly degraded, but I have had a number of calls drop out over the last few days that I don't think should have - shorter stubby may be a mistake. Anyone know, or have experience of this ?
 
You have a snap in adapter for your car? The bluetooth bit in the heading has thrown me off a little as the snap in adapter which uses the aerial (which i have heard is in the rear bumper) wouldnt use bluetooth.
 
I have the adapter, doesn't fit my Berry though so it is just connected by bluetooth to the car. So does that mean that it is just using the phone's antenna, so I should have no more probs than normal with a shorter stubby ?
 
Aerial for BT is behind the rear bumper. Can't see how it could work though if the phone isn't connected via a cradle.

My old ericsson phone in the cradle actually made a physical connectin to the aerial and BB's use a senor pad from memory to connect the aerial.
 
My phone is definitely paired with the car and can be used through the nav and control buttons, but if it is not physically connected then I guess it is not using the BT aerial from what you guys are saying ? If so, I have no worries, and even if it is I have no worries either, so I think my concerns aout a shorter stubby have been answered :thumbsup:

Cheers guys.
 
Yeah, shame the cradles are so damn expensive :(

I am partial to a bit of aerial amplification :P
 
Haven't had a cradle since my old E46 between 2005-2007, but most of that time the phone I had wouldn't fit.

TBH though I'm not sure what advantage you would actually see, phones seem so good these days.
 
Being in the telecoms industry I know that actually the main problem nowadays is the providers' coverage... Unles you got an i(phone) 4, which of course didn't work very well as an actual phone because of bad design. I hate using the phone with customers whilst driving anyway - I have to be tame with the loud pedal :D
 
I think the only advantages of the snap in adapter is that the signal is boosted and it charges the phone. The main disadvantage is that i have to take my phone out of my pocket/ bag and snap it in... only to forget when i leave my car and leave it in there :headbang:

so i dont think the benefits of a snap in adapter out weigh the benefits.
 
My phone sits in the indentation under the handbrake, plugged into a lighter charger - we have so many devices charging in the house I can never find a plug socket... And anyway I'd only forget to take it when I left the house :roll:
 
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