Apple Blames iPhone 4 Reception Issue on Faulty Formula
Trapped Like A Rat!
Overstating signal strength is an old trick used to by manufacturers to make their phones appear powerful. Sanyo did this about four or five years ago and got a jump on their competitors by doing that same thing. Back then, everyone was saying how great the reception was on their Sanyo phones, but it was all BS. Now, Apple got caught doing the same thing. Apple says that they were surprised to learn that they were overstating their own signal strength! Oh, please....really? lol Every dog has his day!
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And Nokia and Ericsson and.. and.. and...
Old trick. People should know that the bars are a relative estimation of signal, not an accurate measurement
Old trick. People should know that the bars are a relative estimation of signal, not an accurate measurement
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Yeah when it shows full bars and you drop a call or no reception it will be AT&T fault. Way to pass the buck.
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I'm not passing the buck. All of those handset manufacturers have at one time been chastised by governments for this.
On the technical side you need to ask why a call drops. Is it because of the phone or the network? Often calls will drop because the network is taxed beyond its ability to transmit data. AT&T has more bandwidth than Verizon and T-Mobile So the real issue is the amount of data being put through the network.
This is because of the iPhone users out there. Put the same amount of iPhone users on Verizon's or T-Mobile's network with half of the bandwidth and it would burst at the seams.
Calls can also drop because the phone has bad settings that dismiss the network when the signal threshhold is set improperly.
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On the technical side you need to ask why a call drops. Is it because of the phone or the network? Often calls will drop because the network is taxed beyond its ability to transmit data. AT&T has more bandwidth than Verizon and T-Mobile So the real issue is the amount of data being put through the network.
This is because of the iPhone users out there. Put the same amount of iPhone users on Verizon's or T-Mobile's network with half of the bandwidth and it would burst at the seams.
Calls can also drop because the phone has bad settings that dismiss the network when the signal threshhold is set improperly.
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lol not true, bandwith aint the only important thing, tmobile and att have more backhaul available to their towers which is why they would be able to handle the iphone data better than att. Att has talked about adding backhaul to their towers in areas where service was "subpar" looks like they will have to add it everywhere.
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The capacity issue markets for AT&T have been identified and the backhaul has either been fixed or it is in process.
Bandwidth on the RF layer is a huge issue. If my channel is only 1.25mhz wide I have fewer options on a CDMA system. HSPA uses a 5 mhz wide channel so there are more options to the network provider. If your license is only 30 mhz in the market how many 1.25 mhz channels can you use? keep in mind voice commands a portion of this as well. Since the CDMA providers stopped at rev a they are stuck with 1.25 mhz channels. Had they gone to rev b they could link multiple channels. I don't believe a 3G network is the ideal environment for the iPhone. It would be much better on a WIMAX or LTE network.
Bandwidth on the RF layer is a huge issue. If my channel is only 1.25mhz wide I have fewer options on a CDMA system. HSPA uses a 5 mhz wide channel so there are more options to the network provider. If your license is only 30 mhz in the market how many 1.25 mhz channels can you use? keep in mind voice commands a portion of this as well. Since the CDMA providers stopped at rev a they are stuck with 1.25 mhz channels. Had they gone to rev b they could link multiple channels. I don't believe a 3G network is the ideal environment for the iPhone. It would be much better on a WIMAX or LTE network.
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