Is the iPhone a good Telephone?
I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
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I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
Both of these questions are highly subjective AND for the most part VERY VERY location sensitive... Me telling you how good the iPhone is in the mountains of NJ (yes we have them) would be of little value if your are in the middle of NYC in a hospital filled with electronics, monitoring devices, MRIs, CTs, over saturated 802.11, perhaps even cellular repeaters.. where I worked we had them all over the place for the Nextel phones, etc, etc, etc.
This is not unlike some random poster writing a post that says "Don't use cingular, their network sucks" and NOT having any location filled out nor telling anyone WHERE is his posting from.... How can anyone possibly take the poster seriously?
Okay not exactly the same but you get the point... In short without some additional details it will be impossible to answer your questions in any way that would actually help you.
Dave
Both of these questions are highly subjective AND for the most part VERY VERY location sensitive... Me telling you how good the iPhone is in the mountains of NJ (yes we have them) would be of little value if your are in the middle of NYC in a hospital filled with electronics, monitoring devices, MRIs, CTs, over saturated 802.11, perhaps even cellular repeaters.. where I worked we had them all over the place for the Nextel phones, etc, etc, etc.
This is not unlike some random poster writing a post that says "Don't use cingular, their network sucks" and NOT having any location filled out nor telling anyone WHERE is his posting from.... How can anyone possibly take the poster seriously?
Okay not exactly the same but you get the point... In short without some additional details it will be impossible to answer your questions in any way that would actually help you.
Dave
Not really, he asked 2 very simple and specific questions:
1. What is the call quality like?
- Well? Is the call quality you get on your iPhone during use any good?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
- This is a simple Yes or No answer.
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I live in the UK, so don't have an iPhone yet, otherwise I would have answered your questions HockeyDoc.
Both of these questions are highly subjective AND for the most part VERY VERY location sensitive... Me telling you how good the iPhone is in the mountains of NJ (yes we have them) would be of little value if your are in the middle of NYC in a hospital filled with electronics, monitoring devices, MRIs, CTs, over saturated 802.11, perhaps even cellular repeaters.. where I worked we had them all over the place for the Nextel phones, etc, etc, etc.
This is not unlike some random poster writing a post that says "Don't use cingular, their network sucks" and NOT having any location filled out nor telling anyone WHERE is his posting from.... How can anyone possibly take the poster seriously?
Okay not exactly the same but you get the point... In short without some additional details it will be impossible to answer your questions in any way that would actually help you.
Dave
To your question, my iPhone has better voice quality than my Razr on the same AT&T network. Yes, it gets a signal everywhere my Razr did.
I live on Long Island in NY. The iPhone also has far superior usability with all of its calling related features compared to the Razr,e.g, I could never go back to answering voice messages sequentiallly.
Not really, he asked 2 very simple and specific questions:
1. What is the call quality like? - Well? Is the call quality you get on your iPhone during use any good?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did? - This is a simple Yes or No answer.
If the iPhone itself was 'notorious' for specific quality issues that were not affected by network quality - like notorious low volume or whatever... we'd see an enormous amount of people posting about this obvious problem... so if you think 'call quality isn't location specific thats fine... you can continue to live in fantasy land... for the rest of us... call quality is quite dependent on your specific area.
A simple example...
To my brother who lives on a mountain-side facing New York City...
Q: How is the HDTV picture quality on that Sharp Aquos?
A: Fantastic!
To my other brother who lives on a mountain-side NOT facing New York City...
Q: How is the HDTV picture quality on that Sharp Aquos?
A: It sucks I can't even get a picture most of the time!
Dave
I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
Unless you get a discount for getting all 7 at once I'd just get one and test it out...IF you are getting a discount...heh...let me know and maybe I can convince someone around here its a good idea.
Vinea
I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
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You sound like a generous soul, but before you buy several iPhones, or even one, I would suggest that you check out the iPhone forums at MacRumors.com.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=322939
They've set up a discussion area for people to report problems they are having with the device, and they seem to be numerous. Some of the bugs will no doubt be fixed with software upgrades, but that may be as far away as October.
The issues range from repeated crashes, to the inability to record a greeting.
Like the the folks who post here, the people who go to MacRumors, tend to be tech savvy, early adopters, and Mac loyalists. None of the complaints sound like mere sour grapes, event though the forum runs to 4 pages.
It seems like Apple jumped the gun on the release of the iPhone. Personally, I'm going to wait until at least, for the second version.
The issues range from repeated crashes, to the inability to record a greeting.
Like the the folks who post here, the people who go to MacRumors, tend to be tech savvy, early adopters, and Mac loyalists. None of the complaints sound like mere sour grapes, event though the forum runs to 4 pages.
It seems like Apple jumped the gun on the release of the iPhone. Personally, I'm going to wait until at least, for the second version.
Seems mostly to be Safari issues and some iPod functions. Oddly my 5.5G Video iPod has some of the same issues with photos disappearing that requires a power cycle for them to return. Scary when these are your imported photos of your vacation off your camera and are your only copies...
Vinea
Signal strength on my iPhone has been on par or slightly better than my old phone. I generally didn't have problems there and haven't had any with the iPhone. This is at home in Berkeley, in San Francisco, in between, and on my way to Santa Cruz and back where I went for the 4th of July.
Regarding call quality, I feel that the iPhone is far superior to my old phone. I think I can heard some audio compression going on which I couldn't previously hear on my old phone, but I think that is due to the iPhone being better so now I can hear those artifacts. I think this is due to AT&Ts network. That said, no complaints and overall its better than my old phone.
My wife loves the phone and talks about it all the time. She tells me all the time she can't believe it sounds this good on At&t/Cingular.
I even called my mother the other day and she said I sounded much better than on our previous phone.
I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
I thank all of you who answer me.
Considering RAZR series is judged as the benchmark of RF signal strength (although audio quality honor is generally awarded to Nokia), I would say iPhone is in good company. On the other hand, many (including myself) found iPhone's speakerphone to be on the weak side. I normally use the Bluetooth headset myself, however.
I use the speakerphone for all calls and audiobooks when using the Ipod function. It is much louder than my Razr for calls. I have to crank the volume down from max level for audiobooks as they can be heard in nearby rooms.
(If it was acceptable, go out and get the 7 for yourself and your partners.)
You may as well- if you end up getting them for your partners first, you know you'll be in deep ^%$# !)
I am strongly considering buying 7 iPhones for my Anesthesiology group. We are salivating at the prospect of using all its features but we have a question. Is the iPhone a good phone? We currently all have RAZRs and we get reception in all of our locations and all of our operating rooms. So.
1. What is the call quality like?
2. Does it get a signal everywhere your old phone did?
Call quality on both ends - how they sound to me, how I sound to them - have been excellent.
It also gets a signal everywhere my old phone did.
If you already enjoy good reception, benefits outweigh the risk. Furthermore, since it is well known that anesthesiologists tend to be among the most laid back specialists in medicine, it is likely that unforeseen problems would be well-tolerated.