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| Reception (Signal strength)
I find the iPhone lacking in Reception (Signal strength)
My wife and I own two of the phones (8 gig & 4 gig). In the "city" we live in the reception is OK. Not stellar but serviceable. Now down at the lake house it's really BAD!!
I also have two Motorola Flip Phones and have no reception issues with them. Only reason we keep the Motorola's is to be able to take calls at the lake house.
IPhone 1 bar - (sometimes)
Motorola 2-3+ Bars (always)
Da - Same AT&T network!!
Also the Motorola has the ability to use an external antenna as a backup so we use one of the "cb" style antennas and go from 2-3 bars to full scale. Be nice is the iPhone would allow an external antenna...
But the gist of my comments is the iPhone reception leaves a lot to be desired. Sitting on the porch at the lake house the wife can take and make calls (with or without the extra antenna) on her Motorola phone. I can't do squat with my iPhone. No web, no email, no phone service. I grab the other Motorola phone and it works. Least I can take and make calls..
Unless At&T plans on beefing up their signal strength I don't care about 3G and it's not worth the $399+ to swap out phone for another one with crappy reception!!
All the hype is not worth beans if you can't use the phone to web surf or even talk on it. Like to reduce my phone expense (2x $9.99+tax) but so far the iPhone is not a suitable replacement. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| My iPhone's reception is equal to or slightly better than most of the other phones I've used, including Motorola.
I'll be very interested to see how iPhone's 3G works compared to my blackjack. Because virtully everywhere I use my cell is on the "fringe" of serviceability, my blackjack seemed to have all kinds of trouble deciding whether to use 3G or Edge, and seemed to often drop calls as a result of it.
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