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you know what I realize I've been clapping wrong my whole life I'm always trying to do a symmetrical clap like this like uh but in reality the much better clap is to angle it so that your hand hits the palm it's a thicker so that's the real flat in case you were interested jack so today I'm going to try to solve your problems and you got a lot of them I'm gonna start with this one no cell phone signal who is not hurting for more signal better signal better reception quick disclaimer I have no idea if this thing is going to work but it claims to so we're going to find out if the link case clear is the solution to your problems or maybe it sucks I've got an iPhone here I've got the case we're gonna see about the reception of the phone without the case and then with the case we're gonna find out if it's the real deal or not no fancy contraption you don't need power for it or anything it's just it's got a weird kind of design going on I mean they say it's patented technology but one thing I want to mention before we crack this open I sort of switch the way that the iPhone displays its signal strength so normally you have those those little dots at the top you can change those dots to an actual numerical readout here's how you do it on a keypad dial star three zero zero one hash one two three four five hash star then you hit the call button you can get all kinds of data in here regarding your cellular connection on the iPhone just hold down the power and then once you get to the power screen like this you want to hit the home button for about five seconds and then you'll see what happens when I release boom so in this case I've got minus one one for the smaller the minus bigger the better so like minus 50 for example would be good minus 100 not so good minus 114 not ideal at all this would be similar to either one or two dots lit up so not great signal strength where I'm sitting right now which makes this the perfect location for this test we are going to check if that minus 114 number goes up after I put the link case clear onto this device is there English anywhere in here I mean what am i doing what what's going on right now to optimize your battery life use EMW when accessing data or during calls the signal enhancement is instantaneous however iOS may need some time to display the change I'm still seeing minus 114 what happens is when you lift it up and slide it you'll notice it lines up with the antenna on the iPhone it's almost an extension of the phone's built-in antenna Oh Oh baby we are now at minus one zero two Jack do you see that almost a 10% improvement now obviously there are a number of parameters at play here it's not just signal strength it's also the signal tech like are you on LTE and so on and so on but nonetheless for the most part you see a better number up here a lower number up here you're in better shape what does it mean for data what does it mean for voice I'm gonna launch a speed test right now to find out so we'll do the speed test with the antenna extended and the case on first eight point seven three megabits per second download and six point six one megabits per second upload now keep in mind this is strictly the LTE network from in this case Rogers minus one zero two is the signal strength I'm going to remove the case now and do the same speed test so the case is off and I just discovered something kind of cool once you've enabled this you can just tap in the top corner and switch back to the little dots and then back and forth back to the speed test now and let's see how we compare 8.33 megabit per second down five point four six megabit per second up it's slightly worse eight point seven three to eight point three three and six point six one two five point four six is it incredibly substantial no like this isn't gonna solve your problem if you have no signal at all and if this is any kind of indication you improve me you could expect to see in an environment with a somewhat weak signal might be in the neighborhood of 10% maybe a little bit more a little bit less it looks here from a preliminary perspective like it does do something I thought maybe it was all smoke and mirrors but it did do something so the first step is do my little trick at the front of this video check what kind of signal you have enough first place get rid of little dots and if you're constantly in a situation with a weak signal this could give you a little bump so no I can't say that it sucks maybe you hold on to that one phone call just a little bit longer with the one you love who knows what this might do for you