Re: [SAGE] ATT Phones

[Yves Dorfsman <yves@zioup.com>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Dave Close wrote:

> This discussion might also benefit from the February issue of Consumer
> Reports. It evaluates and compares both phones and carriers in various
> cities around the US.


Then Steve's cell phone reviews should be mentioned here:

http://www.arcx.com/sites/PhoneReviewsList.htm

I always uses his comparisons before buying cell phones, and am glad to
have done so... I've bought two Motorola P280 (GSM) based on the fact that
they are one of the best phone for RF and audio quality, and have had
numerous examples of other people using other phones but the same network
provider not able to use their phones in specific spots while I was having
no problem whatsoever. I can phone and receive phone calls with near
perfect quality with just one bar on my phone. I use Rogers AT&T by the
way, which provides very good quality and coverage, at least in western
Canada.  Rogers used to be known to have bad coverage and poor service but
all that has improved tremendously since they were bought (or merged ?)
with AT&T, which is quite ironic reading people experiences in the US with
AT&T on this list.


Note that in some of my recent discussions with Steve (from the above web
page)  about quality when I was expressing my surprised that the P280, an
old phone by today's standards, is still one of the best for RF and audio
quality, he said that one of the main reason most phone manufacturers
don't build audio and RF quality in their phones is because there's no
money for that, most people buy a phone because of its look and what
gadget it has, very few enquire about quality. Never thought of it as I
tend to research things to death before buying, but it make sense when you
see ads on TV for cell phones, or listen to people raving about the latest
game of song they have on their phone.

There's some pages about phone locked by network providers on his page as
well (since that came up in this thread).


Yves.
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