[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Neil L. Little]

Echo on a call has traditionally been a hardware issue involving telco 
circuits of 50 miles or more.
There are devices attached to these circuits to prevent these echos 
(really a standing wave issue).

73,
Neil, WA4AZL

Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 23:53 +0000, kwoodie at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Ok so I am thinking about switching from my blackberry curve to a Android based phone or an iPhone. 
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>>  Which is the best in the eyes of TriLUG?
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> I've had my iPhone for a year now and absolutely adore it...
>
> except for the actual phone quality which is pretty bad.  There are two
> issues:
>
> 1) Echoing on a regular basis - people call me and can hear themselves
> in a significant, non-ignorable manner.  We often call back to see if it
> will go away and sometimes it just disappears.  Happens iphone to iphone
> and iphone to non-iPhone.
>
> 2) Dropped calls.  My brother in Maryland can drive a particular section
> of I-95 and his iPhone will drop our call every time.  On a regular
> basis I lose calls for unknown reasons.  Before my beloved iPhone I
> never understood the advertising from others about "no dropped calls."
> because in the NC area on Sprint I never had those problems.  Now I just
> accept it.
>
> The iPhone is really about the apps and the overall environment in which
> those apps are available.. The consistency of the user interface and how
> individual apps form a well designed overall experience is the big WIN.
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