Which android phone has great reception?

[MSIC]

I'm posting this on behalf of a colleague of mine who is compaining that his iphone (on Orange i think, or maybe T-Mobile) gets hardly any signal either at work or at home, and that he (being quite a senior management chap) needs to be contacted for important stuff regularly.

Although he likes his iphone in other respects, he said that his wife has an android phone and was impressed, so is happy to change.
With that in mind, he asked my opinion, and although I recognise that the carrier can clearly be a big factor, wondered if any one phone was noted as being significantly better at picking up / holding a signal than any other.
Thanks.

[TheAnimus]

All of the ones that have the antenna on the inside.... Oh wait, thats all of them.

[capt_cornflake]

Aparts from the iPhone 4 "antennagate" issue, I'm not sure it's going to make any significant difference.
I'm sure there are some which are slightly better or worse, but if his reception is that bad, I'm not convinced a different phone will make that much difference?

I have the same situation with my work Blackberry on Vodafone. I'm currently trying to get a SureSignal box set up at home, basically a local cell which routes traffic over your broadband.
May be worth checking if Orange or T-mobile or whoever do something similar?

[Funkstar]

Only Vodafone do femto cells in the UK. And they are a really bad deal at the moment. You have to pay for the box which is cheeky as you are improving their network. It runs over your broadband, using your bandwidth, but if you use 3G data through the femtocell, it counts towards your monthly allowance as well. I can understand why it charges you for calls and texts, but not data!

[Lee H]

Only Vodafone do femto cells in the UK. And they are a really bad deal at the moment. You have to pay for the box which is cheeky as you are improving their network. It runs over your broadband, using your bandwidth, but if you use 3G data through the femtocell, it counts towards your monthly allowance as well. I can understand why it charges you for calls and texts, but not data!

Epic fail... that's cheeky charging for data when it's using a persons broadband for the data!

@ OP - since Orange and T-mobile did their merge a few of my friends on orange have experienced issues with their signals dropping to the point you cannot ring them if they are at home, only out and about. I've noticed my own signal drop from 3 bars to 2 bars at home. I'm on virgin which uses t-mobile for their signal so maybe this is related as well.

[capt_cornflake]

Only Vodafone do femto cells in the UK. And they are a really bad deal at the moment. You have to pay for the box which is cheeky as you are improving their network. It runs over your broadband, using your bandwidth, but if you use 3G data through the femtocell, it counts towards your monthly allowance as well. I can understand why it charges you for calls and texts, but not data!

Yes the charging does take the piss really. At least they only charge £50 now for the box rather than the £150 when I looked early last year.
But as it's to be able to use a work phone, and it's only necesary because they insist on Vodafone, they've pay for the suresignal box (and the phone usage). As long as it doesn't use stupid amounts of bandwidth (and as it will only be used for emails and the odd call I find that unlikely), it doesn't cost me anything personally...