Tim Cook announced Apple’s new iPhone 7 this week — and its wireless headphones BECK DIEFENBACH/ReutersSmartphone owners get better reception when they use their right hand to make calls. The effect is especially strong for iPhones, research has found. The Danish study found that the phone with the biggest hand differential, the iPhone 6S+, packed 20 times more signal strength when used in the right hand. The researchers said that the problem with the worst-performing phones was not with their transmitter technology but with how users’ hands blocked the antenna. Four of the most recent iPhones — including three variants of the iPhone 6 — ranked at the bottom of the table of 26 popular handsets for…

Source: The Times September 08, 2016 23:02 UTC