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RE: AT&T coverage stinks
By Targon on 5/8/2010 10:49:19 AM , Rating: 2
Many people seem to forget that there will be differences between phones, not just between carriers. There are a number of phones that just are not good on ANY carrier, so you have to take that into account.

The iPhone itself may not have great cell phone reception and reliability compared to other phones, and since so few people are willing to do side by side tests to see which PHONE gets the best reception and reliability, it opens the door to a lot of flaws in these sorts of comparisons.

If you had problems with calls, what phone do YOU have? Is it known to have problems overall? Have you tried replacing it with another phone to see if the problem may not be device related?

Think back, if you can remember, to the days of land line phones. You had some PHONES with problems, and people wouldn't know the difference between problems with their phone, and problems with the phone service. You would even have people who had two phones, one would work, the other would not, and people would still blame the phone company when it was clear that either the wiring in the house or the individual phone was at fault.

So, use that land line example, and apply it to cell phones. If you take a phone with GREAT reliability, and you use it to test the network, you get a better idea of how good the NETWORK is. If you get something that has a claim to fame of tens of thousands of downloadable apps, then you really can't know how good the quality of the cell phone circuitry is.

