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GSM Cell Phone Reception Quality?
A not-so-anonymous reader asks: "I am about to buy a new cell phone and my primary focus is on good reception quality, as I have bad network coverage at home. I made some tests using some phones I have access to and got a subjective rating of T610 < K500i < 6520 < V600i, where T610 means 'nearly no service' and V600i gives 'service even in the wine cellar'. Googling around did not give any useful hints. Has anyone compared the reception quality of current GSM phones via simple locations testing, or better yet with commercial GSM testing equipment?"
...and I found that GSM, by and large sucked. So did most other digital cellular phones. My finding determined that analog phones provided the best sound quality, without exception!
In case you hadn't figured it out yet, digital communications of any kind is better for the provider than the consumer. For the consumer/quality, analog is always the better choice.
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