DeFuniak Springs, FL

[DRNewcomb]

Although Compass shows a new site and new coverage in northern DeFuniak Springs, FL, I'm here and I can't tell any difference. Seems, like Port St. Joe, it's just so much good intentions not followed up with action.

[DRNewcomb]

I took a drive around the northern part of town. There is now coverage up US 331, which is an improvement and there is 3G. Still, any place shown on Compass as "moderate coverage" might as well say "no coverage."

[danska]

Although Compass shows a new site and new coverage in northern DeFuniak Springs, FL, I'm here and I can't tell any difference. Seems, like Port St. Joe, it's just so much good intentions not followed up with action.

From the time it shows up on compass and actually live could easily be a few weeks.

[DRNewcomb]

12 years ago I had fair coverage (1 bar standing in a particular spot) at the vacation house with DigiPH's original service. T-Mobile did not change towers but the service got worse. Even the directional outside antenna stopped working. I think they reaimed the antennas or lowered the power. Anyway it's been a big source of frustration; always have to set the conditional forwarding whenever I go to the lake. I hope they get that new tower at the fairgrounds active soon. It should provide service here as good as ATT's (I hope but I'll settle for a couple of bars.) I sat where the map shows a red "T" and had no service.

[DRNewcomb]

From the time it shows up on compass and actually live could easily be a few weeks.

Well, it's going on a few months now and the new site in DeFuniak Springs is still vapor. No improvement.

[jarrodpd]

Well, it's going on a few months now and the new site in DeFuniak Springs is still vapor. No improvement.

I have no idea whats up with them now, for the last month Compass has been "broke" and they aren't really giving much updates about their network. Maybe they're planning to announce everything at once or launch a website like Sprint or At&T.

[reedacus25]

With the new it shows DeFuniak on the 3G side as lit up like a Christmas tree and 2G pretty dimly lit. Nothing too different from the old compass map but it made the cut thru the new maps redesign.

Any updates here Dr. Newcomb? And did you ever decide on/get your new phone?

[DRNewcomb]

Any updates here Dr. Newcomb?

It's been a month since I was in De Funiak and I saw no change at that time.

And did you ever decide on/get your new phone?

I've pretty well decided on the Nokia N8 but I just returned home from a 24-day, 3988-mile vacation and have yet to add up all the receipts. I may be eating PB&J sandwiches for a while to pay off this trip. (It was a lot of fun.)

P.S. Looking at new maps it seems that they may have deployed AWS in DeFuniak Springs and Port St. Joe without adding any GSM.

[reedacus25]

I love the N8 in theory, never held one, but the on screen keyboard is pretty tough I hear. Surprised you didn't go with the E6 for the keyboard and battery. I will always love Symbian, and Nokia for that matter, but Windows Phone really intrigues me and when it came down to my last decision it was the HP Pre3 and the Dell Venue Pro, I saw your post in the WP forum. I went with the Pre3 to match my firesale Touchpad, but also because it was much more pocketable, but I still look on the auction site every once in a while to see if DVPs are coming down in price.

I think if you wait just a tad longer Nokia is going to have had time to get a device up to their par and not as rushed as the 800 was. By that I mean penta-band, good non pentile screens, excellent battery, and WP8. I still think it might be worth picking up a backup E73 atleast for UMA's sake. They're out there for ~$75 and it gives you an AWS stop-gap. Very interested to see where this phone journey takes you.

Anyways I'll leave you with an interesting article with some impressive EDoF captures E7 Macros

[DRNewcomb]

I love the N8 in theory, never held one, but the on screen keyboard is pretty tough I hear. Surprised you didn't go with the E6 for the keyboard and battery.

The E6 was the one I was looking at first, both for the keyboard and reasonable price. However, I really want to have a barcode scanner app and was told that an autofocus camera is pretty much required for these to work. So, I figure I'll be able to live without the real keyboard.

[jarrodpd]

The E6 was the one I was looking at first, both for the keyboard and reasonable price. However, I really want to have a barcode scanner app and was told that an autofocus camera is pretty much required for these to work. So, I figure I'll be able to live without the real keyboard.

Are you sure your going to need a barcode scanner? I have one on my android phone and may have used it three or four times. I mainly use my iPhone which I could download one on their I just never have the need to scan anything.