Is there a phone out there with better reception signal than the rest??

[donmezz]

I am still convinced that there must be phones out there which have better signal reception 'power' than the rest...

Can anyone suggest any good phones? A car aerial kit isn't really what I'm after


Cheers!!

[JPreston]

Whether or not you have coverage really just depends on your network*, and you are out in the sticks, it's hilly, always raining torrentially....so you will have patches with no coverage regardless of your phone.

How did people manage to drive anywhere 10 years ago before they had mobile phones anyway....?



*And anyone saying "network x has better coverage than network y" based on their perceptions of their own statistically insignificant experience of coverage in a completely different area of the country will get beaten with a chair

[donmezz]

same can be said, how did we survive without the internet....and without net forums...and DVD players and Core 2 Duos and 8800GTXs and digital SLRs....


Times move on.

[donmezz]

Sorry, but you have got me started.....


Firstly I am sure there are phones with varying ability of reception as I saw an advert a while ago about a phone designed for sailors with strong reception power or whatever, however sadly I cannot remember it, so here I am asking...

Secondly, I appreciate all the help from Hexus forums and in the past, the people who have suggested good things have been great, however, as you can see this is a question that I have put accross. Not a general discussion or asking your thoughts and comments regarding the technology change experienced in the last 10 years.

I find it quite frankly irritating people who say things like 'how did we manage years ago without phones, pcs etc etc' as I am sure these people too use exactly the same technology as everyone else and probably have the latest gear themselves




Thank you

[Funkstar]

Yes you get cheap, poorly designed phones that have bad reception.

If you get a good quality phone, as suggested in your other thread (there was no need to start a new one) that is about the best you can do.

Or you could get a satellite phone.
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Works any where in the world... but not inside.

[donmezz]

crumbs....

what is wrong with these people....thank you for pointing it out, but there was no need to point it out....Yes I have started another thread, because there is no rule about starting more than one thread....

Also, this is different, that one lead onto signal boosters and this one is about actual mobiles

[donmezz]

also if i had not started this thread, I would not have got these new replies....humm...maybe I should have not started!!

[JPreston]

crumbs....

what is wrong with these people....thank you for pointing it out, but there was no need to point it out....

you're the one asking about phones for sailors - which are satellite phones - so no need to get narky, is there?

If your wife doesn't have network coverage on her way home, then it makes an insiginificant difference which phones she has. She might at best be able to change being out of coverage for (say) 62% of the journey, to 65%.

What's the point of that? She'll still have to think "Oh, I don't have coverage on my entire commute". If she commuted on the trains instead, would you be looking for a phone to last those extra few metres into the tunnels before dropping the call?

You'd make much much more of a difference by changing to the best network over her route - but have no way at all of knowing which network that is

[MadduckUK]

get together a payg sim (you can pick them up for free or almost free) for each and an unlocked phone. then test test it out

[Blitzen]

My N95 on '3' is top banana. 3G all the time (even out in the sticks)

I think (but dont know for sure) they use Orange transmitters.

Firstly I am sure there are phones with varying ability of reception as I saw an advert a while ago about a phone designed for sailors with strong reception power or whatever, however sadly I cannot remember it, so here I am asking...

Its called INMARSAT. (International Maritime Satellite Communication). All our fleet have them (last time i looked)
You will need a second mortgage to pay your monthly bill though.

[hodge132]

No it all depends od radio station and your signal. All radio is in 64 bps so no sound quality is different just strenght of signal

[donmezz]

thank you for the suggestions guys, very appreciated.

I will have a look at the N95, just read some other reviews about and they seem to say the same thing.

Thank you also for the satellite phone, I suppose, yes that is an option.

not too sure where you were going with the thread regarding triain etc...? However she had quite a serious car accident a month ago and could not get trhough to me apart from using a passer-by's phone so this is quite important to me.

thanks for all the help! keep them coming!

[Dreaming]

If you look on eBay there is a signal booster you can buy for most phones. Just adds a bigger aerial inside the phone (you just put it behind the battery). I have no idea if it actually works but 'testimonials' seem to think it does.

Bigger aerial = better reception. (well, I bet some clever person will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my logic )

A lot of mobile networks piggy back off each other anyway so they're mutually beneficial in that their customers can get signal everywhere, and in theory reduces the need for 5 signal boxes to cover the same area when one will do. But I know it's not always like this.

This might help as well:
The 5 Phones With The Best Cell Phone Reception

[onyxguapo]

i have had lots of phones, mostly Nokia (1110, 1112, 1600, 2310, 2626, 3110c, 3120, 6020, 6030, 6300, 7260, 7610, many more) and i must say that the one which had the strongest network signal reception is the Nokia 2626, since it was able to pick up at least 2 bars of network signal in areas where all my other phones would be dead.

oh, not to mention it has superior battery life, too (you're gonna need it if you'll be using it on a network with poor signal).

it's a Superbasic phone by Nokia and at just 70 dollars it really is a steal.

[jimbouk]

Sony one's have really high SARS ratings, must be good for reception...

[Tobeman]

[snip]the strongest network signal reception is the Nokia 2626, since it was able to pick up at least 2 bars of network signal in areas where all my other phones would be dead. [snip]

New Scientist Technology Blog: Signal bars - what are they for?

Seems there are no set standards for signal bars you see on one phone to the next...