iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

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• RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

  Not to drop calls? :-)

  

  mrdelurk@...

  17 August, 2011 13:21

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @mrdelurk@...
    I keep seeiing this on lists -- I have had my iPhone 3Gs for two years now with AT&T and have one dropped call so far. The guy on the other end went through a tunnel where there was no reception. What gives? I do not understand.

    

    oterrya

    17 August, 2011 21:14

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    • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

      @oterrya I agree! I have a 3Gs and never have problems with it.

      

      brighteyes459@...

      18 August, 2011 09:58

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    • Where do you live?

      @oterrya
      Had the 3G, 3GS and i4.
      I travel all over the US, Canada and Caribbean.
      Call quality is poor and dropped calls are the norm.
      This is on any gsm network, not just ATT.
      
      I will say the i4 is an improvement over the 3G/3GS for drops, but the quality is still sub-par.

      

      rhonin

      18 August, 2011 19:36

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    • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

      @oterrya
      Totally agree, I've had a 3GS for 2 years (and still have it today) and have yet to experience a dropped call when I have at least 1 bar of reception; usually have 3-5 where I live/work :)

      

      MrElectrifyer

      18 August, 2011 21:50

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    • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

      @oterrya Springfield Illinois, Chicago, and St Louis MO and have a few family who are required by their employers to use at&t, I have uscellular and virgin mobile, and often take trips to the aforementioned cities, I never lost data through virgin mobile hotspots, and am often on the phone the whole time, I have never lost a call, exception is the bluffs along Mississippi basin where no device gets reception. My family member's at&t phones, razor, iPhone, Droid global(?) Would often drop calls and the call quality is questionable only opinion. Their data was unreliable also the phone might say it has 3g but any browser within the phone or any device using it's data would show an empty network response or server timeout. BUT what many people don't take into account is that all carriers cover different areas better, when on longer trips I've noticed that at&t were better than uscellular or sprint or both, in Nevada at&t was best, in Sebastian FL virgin mobile(sprint) was the best with at&t about the same quality as uscellular. I wont be buying an iPhone unless its offered on uscellular or sprint and their affiliates, or if I move to an area where at&t is better

      

      Feds Against Guns

      31 August, 2011 13:30

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @mrdelurk@... The Verizon models doesn't have this issue.

    

    Champ_Kind

    17 August, 2011 23:56

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    • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

      @Champ_Kind
      
      Oh, yes, it does. The problem just hasn't been written about as much as dropped calls on AT&T.

      

      marilynwins@...

      18 August, 2011 22:04

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    • Neither does the AT&T version

      @Champ_Kind
      
      Only the Android user version really has this issue. I get the occasional dropped call but it does not seem any higher than it did with my RAZR/Verizon VS Sprint/StarTac VS iPhone 4/AT&T.

      

      Bruizer

      19 August, 2011 09:30

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @mrdelurk@... Dropped calls is not just a phone problem but also the coverage of the provider. The number of dropped calls is quite negligible for me.

    

    cklsg

    18 August, 2011 01:04

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• RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

  So what you are saying is that you want the new iphone to be an Andriod phone?

  

  armageddon6

  17 August, 2011 15:03

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  • Pretty much...

    @armageddon6
    If it cannot at least match Android phones capabilities, it will be even further behind next year.....
    
    For me 4+" screen and 4G minimum if I'm doing a 2yr contract.....
    ;)

    

    rhonin

    18 August, 2011 19:43

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @armageddon6
    exactly what I thought when i read this. Apple should go Android then they would be leap and bounds ahead of what they have now

    

    brad1000

    21 August, 2011 16:12

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    @armageddon6 I don't think iPhone needs android, I think it needs OSX or at least a fully functional OS that allows to share data without charges(why pay for the service twice just phucking stupid gouging) allow flash(full not just ported) expandable storage, I don't want to buy a new phone for more space, a replaceable battery, a few times I have had to go more than a day in poor signal area while using GPS(+AGPS) without the ability to put in one of my fresh batteries and charge the dead with solar no phone would last more than a day like that. I am sticking to android for now, though a friend just started testing a modified JUlinux on hummingbird and snapdragon processors, if it works well and is able to still be a phone then I might switch to that, or windows 8 if I can get it on my phone

    

    Feds Against Guns

    31 August, 2011 13:51

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• RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

  This is Mr. Rourke calling come back to Fantasy Island! Doubtful but good to dream

  

  smarticus

  17 August, 2011 15:27

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  • hervé villechaize

    @smarticus
    The screen needs to look big next to Tattoo
    
    :D

    

    rhonin

    18 August, 2011 19:44

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• RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

  [sigh] wish there was a slide-out keyboard in the works to enjoy the entire screen.

  

  Roger H

  17 August, 2011 15:42

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @astrogeek
    I have had one and like the on-screen keyboard much better. It saves a lot of weight and when I am typing, I am not looking anyway.

    

    oterrya

    17 August, 2011 21:04

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  • RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

    @astrogeek Ditto that. I'm still on a Torch because I'm not yet ready to part with the keyboard. It's much easier to do the no look typing when there are real buttons to push.

    

    borntski

    18 August, 2011 07:01

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• RE: iPhone 5 wish list - 20 new features we want the most (photos)

  Customisable sms tones, and ability to directly use a song on my playlist as ringtone.

  

  joyeux0

  17 August, 2011 20:28

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