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Dead Zone Doldrums for iPhoners

f38urry

Apr 29, 2010, 10:27 AM
Some excerpts from the full April 29, 2010 NY Times article that can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/persona ... »

Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers

By PAUL BOUTIN

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs’s touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone’s cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it’s impossible to connect.

If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge of the financial district in San Francisco, you are likely to miss calls from the office. Some owners can’t use their iPhones in their own homes. Even...
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sunilsonia

Apr 29, 2010, 11:39 AM
f38urry said:
Some excerpts from the full April 29, 2010 NY Times article that can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/persona ... »

Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers

By PAUL BOUTIN

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs’s touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone’s cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it’s impossible to connect.

If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge of the financial district in San Francisco, you are likely to miss calls from the office. Some owners can’t use thei
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WonkotheSane

May 3, 2010, 2:27 PM
I have a Tilt and live in DFW. I never have deadzone problems. A call will drop occasionally on transition from one cell to another, but no dead zones. OTOH, back when I had VZW and worked downtown, my office was a deadzone.
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Sigma1570

Apr 29, 2010, 12:09 PM
They forgot to mention that in general the iphone gets crappy service compared to other at&t phones. Try reporting that NYT!
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sunilsonia

Apr 29, 2010, 12:48 PM
Sigma1570 said:
They forgot to mention that in general the iphone gets crappy service compared to other at&t phones. Try reporting that NYT!


The Samsung Touchscreens were no better. They were just as bad, if not worse! I had the Eternity and had more than my handful of dropped calls. Not to mention the device would auto Power Recycle itself, on many occasions in midst of a phone call. Imagine that frustration my friend!
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Sigma1570

Apr 29, 2010, 1:09 PM
I bet that did suck. If only we could get back to the reliability of the nokia 6010!
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sunilsonia

Apr 29, 2010, 1:39 PM
Sigma1570 said:
I bet that did suck. If only we could get back to the reliability of the nokia 6010!


What's funny is the mind games I am undergoing right now, even a month later after ditching at&t no less! I pickup the phone or dial from my Garmin's Soft Dialer to what I know to be a land-line number. I stop and hesitate for a minute and then I'm like, "Duh! No more at&t and it's after 7pm." I then continue to dial and press the talk/send/dial key depending on where I am dialing out from (i.e., Handset or Garmin while driving). LOL, freedom is priceless!
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mdlamotte

Apr 29, 2010, 2:33 PM
My Iphone works fine no dropped calls, great coverage. I am interested in an android based phone if at&t would get a good one and not cripple it. Live in Colorado Springs.
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sunilsonia

Apr 29, 2010, 2:42 PM
mdlamotte said:
My Iphone works fine no dropped calls, great coverage. I am interested in an android based phone if at&t would get a good one and not cripple it. Live in Colorado Springs.


Here are your choices considering the BackFlip is crippled with Y! Search instead of Google Search.

http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=a ... »

I'd move to another carrier if I were you for better Droid choices.
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Anxiovert

Apr 29, 2010, 8:08 PM
As soon as AT&T releases the Xperia X10 this July it'll blow all other Android smartphones out of the water.

Talk about a "Droid" killer..... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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This_Troper

Apr 29, 2010, 8:30 PM
Droid-killing Device fixes Dead Zones!

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
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sunilsonia

Apr 29, 2010, 10:26 PM
Anxiovert said:
As soon as AT&T releases the Xperia X10 this July it'll blow all other Android smartphones out of the water.

Talk about a "Droid" killer..... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣


More like Mortgage payment killer. I hear that device will up their in price. Somewhere around $750 - $800. Sorry but that's my P&I on my mortgage. I'm not going to drop that kind of money only to have at&t's worthless warranty service tell me that I have to shell out extra $$ money again when this device starts to crap out a.l.a my Samsungs when I was with at&t. The proof is clearly in the performance. It is fact based off of my experience with carriers including at&t that other carrier's clearly have "mor...
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hrmles1

May 1, 2010, 9:35 PM
I have a good friend who I speak with on the phone several times per week. Last week our conversation did not go so well. There was a ton of static and his voice was all garbled. He called back and we got the same thing. I said, dude, where are you?? What's going on with your phone? He said that he switched to AT&T and got the Iphone and he was living it! He may be loving it but it's the rest of us who are suffering. Without fail, almost everyone I speak to who has AT&T I get a terrible experience. Not that way with any other carrier.
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WernerCD

May 2, 2010, 12:28 PM
have been for years. We have no issues. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

Great call quality, coverage, data coverage... there are a couple places we go where we have to use 2G, but rest of the time we are on 3G.

No carrier is perfect. There are spots where Verizon sucks and AT&T has better coverage. Vice versa.

And there is 90% of the us where it's more or less the same. Pick your poison.
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hrmles1

May 2, 2010, 2:49 PM
I agree with your post. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. My point was not coverage it was the fact that the quality of the call I get when speaking with someone who has AT&T is horrible. They are often not aware of it.
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WernerCD

May 2, 2010, 12:40 PM
to imply that Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile don't have turds... your either blind, dumb or a fanboi.

Env Phones? tons of horror stories. Storm1/2? etc. That's just a couple of the phones I *KNOW* have had consistent issues. *AND* I'm an authorized dealer so I barely touch repeat offenders.

Phone companies don't make the phones. AT&T doens't make the phones. Verizon don't. They sell *SERVICE*.

LG, Samsung, Nokia, etc... *THEY* make the phones.

How is a Samsung on Verizon any better than a Samsung on Sprint? AT&T? Why would Samsung rush to make AT&T phones yet take their time on Verizon?

You make no sense. Your argument confuses me and makes me sad for humanity.
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asiatic1982

May 2, 2010, 10:29 PM
Where have you "heard" that the phone will be 750-800 with ATT? That's the unsubsidized pricing you are talking about - with ATT the most expensive subsidized phone i've ever seen was in the $400 - $500 range - nowhere near the 750-800 you are talking about.

Also, your statement that other carriers have more "reliability" built into their equipment is absolutely ridiculous. I'll take hard, cold facts over your "experiences" any time - show me one credible study that proves that an ATT branded device fails more often than that same device on another carrier - I have yet to see one. (oh and no, i'm no ATT fanboy, i currently have both ATT and Verizon devices - I just can't help but point out your complete stupidity when you post items like...
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sunilsonia

May 3, 2010, 10:41 AM
asiatic1982 said:
Where have you "heard" that the phone will be 750-800 with ATT? That's the unsubsidized pricing you are talking about - with ATT the most expensive subsidized phone i've ever seen was in the $400 - $500 range - nowhere near the 750-800 you are talking about.

Also, your statement that other carriers have more "reliability" built into their equipment is absolutely ridiculous. I'll take hard, cold facts over your "experiences" any time - show me one credible study that proves that an ATT branded device fails more often than that same device on another carrier - I have yet to see one. (oh and no, i'm no ATT fanboy, i currently have both ATT and Verizon devices - I just can't help but point out your compl
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asiatic1982

May 3, 2010, 2:13 PM
Since you value "experiences" over "facts" I will give you my experience - I travel for my job, all over the country, and the reason I use ATT and Verizon is b/c both of them are considerably better than Sprint in almost every area I travel in. Are there areas in the country where Sprint would be better? I'm 100% sure there are places like that, but for the places I go to, that isn't the case. To make a broad statement that one carriers coverage is better than another is just that, a broad statement.

The bottom line boils down to each customer's experience - and right now, ATT and Verizon are adding customers with low churn, and right now Sprint is bleeding customers out. Coming online on a forum and saying "my company is better than you...
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