Despite attenuation issues, 8.4 million iPhones were sold in the three month period.

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Simultaneously, outstanding passive noise attenuation guarantees undisturbed listening whatever your environment.

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Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas.

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One of the next steps for the team is to determine whether the attenuation is unique enough from person to person to make for a useful security system.

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Samsung claims that its transceiver technology overcomes large atmospheric attenuation.

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There is significant atmospheric attenuation in this band.

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