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Which phone offers STELLAR reception?
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Posted by: outside_n_wnc

Which of the current offered Cingular phones offers the best reception? I live in a mountainous region with sketchy service and every bit helps. For instance in my area on the same carrier the side-by-side difference between Moto and LG is significant(Moto rules).
Tethering to laptop is important, speakerphone, bluetooth- nothing else really matters.

Thanks in advance.

kb

Posted by: tuolumne

Samsung A707 Sync.

Posted by: vietalogy

either krzr or sony 810, samsungs dont get good RF i think.

Posted by: othmichael

SLVR l7 has excellent reception, maybe even better than the beloved RAZR.

SLVR or Razr would be your best bet.

Posted by: swiftbmx

In my opinion, the SLVR reception is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I went through 4 different SLVR's before I finally concluded it was the phone. I kept trying diff sim cards, locations, and obviously slvr phones and none were able to hold a call when it got to 2 bar or less and every single person I spoke to said I'd go in and out a lot.

Posted by: bodeh6

Sony Ericsson W810i.

Posted by: Maverick05

my razr was great...the slvr while better than other phones consistently got 2 bars less reception and would drop calls continously...if u look at smartphones my 8525 gets even better rf than my razr...I mean I'm holding calls in basements and elevators underground that not even my razr could

Posted by: b0stonirishguy

RAZR is the choice.

Posted by: tuolumne

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Originally Posted by vietalogy

either krzr or sony 810, samsungs dont get good RF i think.

Blackjack and Sync are great.

Posted by: UNOBizStudent

I think it really depends on where you are. Do you want 3G of 2G. Where I am GSM is now on 1900 and 3G is on 850, thus a 3G phone works better than GSM for coverage. GSM can barely get reception inside while 3G works even deep in hospitals and elevators. I've tried all of the 3G phones out now and they all are working the same for me. While GSM phones are iffy here. Nokia always worked best for me.

Posted by: Arden

blackjack has the best reception i have ever experienced in any phone i have ever owned.

Posted by: bikemanj7

Sony Ericsson W810i hands down.

Posted by: daftgem

Wirelessly posted (Nokia E62: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

I have been blown away by the reception, voice clarity, and loudness of the speaker phone on my Nokia E62. Also the build quality is top notch. I have had over 50 phones in my life, and this one really shines.

Posted by: Rcadden

I can't believe only one person has suggested a Nokia. Nokia is known for their phones' reception quality.

Any Nokia.

Posted by: anubis9278

my 4 watt bag phone

Posted by: tuolumne

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Originally Posted by bikemanj7

Sony Ericsson W810i hands down.

Only EDGE though. He said he wants to teather.

Posted by: DonaldMick

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Originally Posted by Rcadden

I can't believe only one person has suggested a Nokia. Nokia is known for their phones' reception quality.

Any Nokia.

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Originally Posted by daftgem

I have been blown away by the reception, voice clarity, and loudness of the speaker phone on my Nokia E62

Whoops

And if you're not in a 3g area and want to go on Cingular's current lineup, I've had no problems with the w810.

Posted by: George Knighton

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Originally Posted by outside_n_wnc

I live in a mountainous region with sketchy service and every bit helps.

I bought an unlocked Krzr K1 from Motorola and I am very impressed with the RF signal capture so far.

Although it's very rare to have a zero or one-bar signal in my normal travel area, I did notice recently that I was able to have a fifteen minute conversation inside a very old building with just a one-bar signal.

I live in Culpeper, at the base of the Blue Ridge, and travelling up Route 666 into the mountains, it seemed to do a little better than the last iteration of the V3i, which was also a phone well known in my part of the world for being able to make calls where other devices would fail.