External cell phone antennas and how to connect them to your mobile phone.

External cell phone antennas are basically indirect and direct connection types. These are very similar to what we have talked about up to now. The big difference is that these are not repeaters or directly plugged into your cell phone.

Instead they require another type of attachment to your phone, usually a piece of velcro or rubber pad on the back of your phone when a antenna plug is not available.

These have been on the market for the last few years!

The cell phone antenna designed for these is quite clever! It is an adhesive pad made of rubber made with wires inside of it so as to pick up your cell phone signal from your phone without a direct connection!

When you are in an area where you need the additional signal gain from external cell phone antennas, then this works really well. I've had people tell me that this works about as well as a direct connection when they need it most!

A really good example of these types of antennas is in the picture below.

Can you see the little ribs in the back of the pad going form side to side in the picture above? These are the little wires in the adhesive pad acting as the signal conductors for your cell phone!

Note that the phone on the left doesn't have an antenna sticking up. Many are made this way now and neither of these has a antenna port on them, yet this type of antenna works very well. There is no antenna port on the back of your phone to break and this type of antenna is really ideal for these type of phones.
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