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2009-12-04
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@ Pennsylvania, USA
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Threads merged.
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2009-12-04
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Originally Posted by Rushmore
Where I live and work only Verizon Wireless has reliable reception. I have friends who cannot use their cell phones in the building where we work and others who have to walk outside of their homes to make a phone call. I, of course, have Verizon.
My poor reception issue in low 2G areas almost made me make "the call" to Dell to return the N900. The all of it's sexiness lured me away from the phone:
1. Great web
2. Lots of fun Flash games play great
3. Music sound quality and nice volume level
4. Killer codec support for video
5. New Maemo interface and its interesting newness
6. Current emulators show great old school potential
7. Quake 3 and other future ports- you KNOW Duke Nukem must be coming.
8. Cool, though sometimes "lovingly" sarcastic Maemo Talk forum folks.
The N900 is like a sexy lady who you know will eventualy screw you over (in this case, probably getting stuck on a remote Kentucky road- not able to get a signal), but you can not turn away from its beauty.
I also feel like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings, muttering about "my preciousss".
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2009-12-10
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@ Surrey, UK
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Hi All
Just thought I would give me experience on the GPRS issue.
Picked up my N900 yesterday - absolutely love it! Coming from HTC Tytn, you can imagine the difference. (although do have N800, so used to N900 already).
So, at the bus stop this morning standing 30 meters from a mobile tower and I had 2g reception with 1 bar, then I lost connection altogether. This made me think the phone call be faulty.
On the bus, whilst sitting in traffic, I had 3.5g. Downloaded and installed OMWeather, countdown and message viewer. So thinking maybe not a faulty phone but software issue?
Then when I got to work, sitting in the coffee shop reasonably near a cell tower - I had a steady 3g signal and has been for the past few hours.
The only things I did to my phone was to turn off automatic search of WLAN.
Therefore, I'm hoping that the issue could be a firmware/software one.
I'm not techy, I don't really know how these things work but thought I would share experience to try to balance the faulty phone assumption.
Phil
ps. was slightly annoyed at no Exchange2003 support out-of-the-box, though am I right in assuming this is coming?
Just thought I would give me experience on the GPRS issue.
Picked up my N900 yesterday - absolutely love it! Coming from HTC Tytn, you can imagine the difference. (although do have N800, so used to N900 already).
So, at the bus stop this morning standing 30 meters from a mobile tower and I had 2g reception with 1 bar, then I lost connection altogether. This made me think the phone call be faulty.
On the bus, whilst sitting in traffic, I had 3.5g. Downloaded and installed OMWeather, countdown and message viewer. So thinking maybe not a faulty phone but software issue?
Then when I got to work, sitting in the coffee shop reasonably near a cell tower - I had a steady 3g signal and has been for the past few hours.
The only things I did to my phone was to turn off automatic search of WLAN.
Therefore, I'm hoping that the issue could be a firmware/software one.
I'm not techy, I don't really know how these things work but thought I would share experience to try to balance the faulty phone assumption.
Phil
ps. was slightly annoyed at no Exchange2003 support out-of-the-box, though am I right in assuming this is coming?
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2009-12-10
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Originally Posted by Bratag
I got the same compared to iphone 3G and 5800XM.
Its so weird my signal is actually better with my N900
I know N900 is missing the att 3G freg, but is it missing some other frequency from the tmobile or att in there? Or do Europeans have this problem too? Interested about this.
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2009-12-10
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what is network selection? what purpose does that function serve? Mine was set to automatic so i switched it to manuel and it gave me the option of tmobile 3g or att 2g, I chose tmobile 3g.
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2009-12-10
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@ USA
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Originally Posted by phillane
I have had this issue with T-mo before. It is called palm tree effect. Too close to a tower and the signal goes over you...
Hi All
Just thought I would give me experience on the GPRS issue.
So, at the bus stop this morning standing 30 meters from a mobile tower and I had 2g reception with 1 bar, then I lost connection altogether. This made me think the phone call be faulty.
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N770, N810, N900, N97, N85, E71, 5800xm, iPhone(retired)
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Why I'm Here
N770, N810, N900, N97, N85, E71, 5800xm, iPhone(retired)
AT&T & T-Mobile
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2009-12-10
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Joined on Sep 2009
@ Kentucky
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This is indeed strange. My lab is in the badement where I get zero signal on my previous phone. But the N900 gets a solid one bar there, which is great for me.
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2009-12-10
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Originally Posted by x61
Thats the same experience I have had - dont ask me why but my N900 gets better reception than my G1 ever did. Even better now I have a new SIM
This is indeed strange. My lab is in the badement where I get zero signal on my previous phone. But the N900 gets a solid one bar there, which is great for me.
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Class .. : Power Poster, Potential Coder
Humor .. : [*********] Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Patience : [***-------] Weapon(s): +2 Logic Mace
Agro ... : |*****-----] Relic(s) : G1, N900