Thread: Ouch... Android is making my n900 look bad.
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colnago is offline colnago
2010-01-05 , 23:37
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Your distance to a Verizon store and to Verizon central offices is irrelevant to your reception to the nearest Verizon supporting cell tower. That being said, however, I do notice that the voice quality is lower than when I had been using Sprint but the data rate seems to be excellent and compares VERY well in comparison to iPhone speeds.

Your proximity experience sounds anecdotal and doesn't accurately reflect the experience my brother and I appear to be having. So far, it seems to work consistently very well for us. That is also anecdotal, though.
But given "an entire town" with such a heavy Verizon presence (3 Verizon stores, one of first towns in the state to get Fios, etc), I shouldn't get total loss of signal in 4 different areas, within an 8 mile radius...nor go from full bars 3g to no signal, and then to 1x, without moving the phone an inch while it sits on my desk. Again, less than 2 miles from a tower where I get -53dBm signal? With 37 towers and 200+ antenna within 4 mile radius, 1-2 of them would have to be Verizon?

One would also think that they would get better than "half bars" in the parking lot outside the Verizon store? That said, other phones in the store were not losing "half signal" just by picking them up off the cradle "inside the store".

I think its the "Phone", and posted these findings after making an antenna "mod":

http://androidforums.com/motorola-dr...light=homemade



...unless we live in the same area, I don't see how you and your brother's experiences would be considered the baseline.