| Good in Cleveland too It was interesting reading this thread...I feel for people in affected areas...but..
I'm also in Cleveland and have no problems, pop back and forth just fine..3G full bars most places..edge isn't too bad either...::::crosses fingers:::: |
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 BrushedToothRemember To Shop Smart Shop S Mart
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Westerville, OH | Cleveland area has a solid 3G and GSM network built out, well for the most part. Only network to top it probably would be Alltel.
I have a feeling Apple has the 3G radios power reduced to save battery life. People need to understand certain phones get better reception than others, at some of them it is a considerable difference. Also no matter how much testing is done, not all issues will be found. If things were tested to that point they would never be released.
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 MikePremium,Mod
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Pittsburgh, PA | So you're saying an Apple product was released way too early and the public are pretty much paying to test it?
I haven't heard this before at all. |
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| No, read what he said again. That's not what he said at all. |
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People need to understand certain phones get better reception than others, at some of them it is a considerable difference.
And also realize that "bars" mean nothing. Every phone interprets signal strength differently to produce the bars. Also, there is a different algorithm to decide when to update them. I could build a phone that only updates the bars once every 10 minutes if the signal goes down but if it goes up, update them every second. The result would be a phone that always shows service.
Where I'm at, I get 1-2 bars 3G on the iPhone (and full if I force to EDGE), but my calls are flawless. Go in the basement and it gets worse and probably will drop but that's to be expected in a basement.
So I just adopt this philosophy: Make the call and if it goes through, talk. If not, wait and try again. |
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BrushedToothRemember To Shop Smart Shop S Mart
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Westerville, OH | Very good point, suprised I forgot to bring it up. I would rather have the true rf reading that the signal bars but I think that would just confuse people way to much. Putting the ipone 3G int engineering mode and comparing it to another phone in engineering mode would be a better gauge of rf performance.
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BrushedToothRemember To Shop Smart Shop S Mart
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Westerville, OH | reply to Mike
I know people like to think that about Apple, but no matter how much a company may think something is ready it will be met with they should have tested it more. The problem is there so many testers you can actually have and so many problems each will find. So the question is which will hurt less ontime release with more bugs or a later release with less bugs and probably the same amount of complaints?
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