My iphone 3GS is about to be replaced. It's always struggled with signal strength at work in Tewkesbury. It's only Edge, never 3G. It looks like the industrial estate is in a bit of a black spot. There's crappy 3g for orange, o2, voda...

Do newer phones have better antenna and be more likely to get 3G?

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Romantic BDSM

Would you raise a hand to Evana? She'd kick your ass. Then insert stiletto heels up it.

Yes to an extent...but a black spot is a black spot. Have you checked the carrier's maps on their sites to see if any report they give good coverage where you are?

Voda is ok where I am but drops off 300m away. Orange is awful. O2 and 3 are similar to voda.

I'm less than 100m from the M5 and close to j9 so I would have expected something better.

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Romantic BDSM

Would you raise a hand to Evana? She'd kick your ass. Then insert stiletto heels up it.

A useful trick is to look to see what network the phone falls back to for SOS calls once the provider network is lost. E.g. at work when I lose network in the lift area then I can see that it's defaulted to orange for SOS, so presumably orange is the strongest signal around that location.

I found my ipron4 had consistently better signal than my 3G everywhere despite the grip of death stuff.

Can't comment much on 3G as hardly ever get it anywhere around here

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cheers,

Harry

Too many old sheds.

Jimmy Choo said...

I'm less than 100m from the M5 and close to j9 so I would have expected something better.

The antennas can be very directional and the planners will tend to point the coverage down the length of the road rather than just blasting it out in all directions.

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