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Agreed....none are perfect, but for me, the switch has been working out. The overall call quality is better, I get more mins for the same money, and I have much better coverage in my home.

It's all good...I love that little orange Cingular guy... :biggrin:

 

Airb330, what bugs are you aware of with the Cingular V400?

 

The Tmobile V600 is only 99.00 from Amazon.

 

traitor........lol........

 

A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.

 

i hear ya.......

 

And I have been as giddy as a little girl since I switched....

 

LOL :lmao:

 

Hm i've never had any static on my GSM phone when i only have one bar of signal.

 

I have had a few times where the call was broken up some, so it hasn't been perfect. But overall, I like the call quality over Verizon.

 

GSM seems to get static-like when the signal is low. CDMA sounds more like a robotic sound, IMO CDMA let's more sound through in bad areas. GSM on average sounds better, infact Cingular2Cingular sounds even better than Cingular2landline!

Cwick, my v400 just does stupid crap. Like if I choose a ringtone, 90% of the time it does it correctly, the other times it *must* play the whole ringtone, even if I shut the phone off, it has to finish the ring before it shuts off. It's just odd. I get the 'call failed' crap more often now, just for no reason it seems, maybe once a week. The "Unable to charge" thing happens about once a week too, which is just plain retarded. Motorola has the dumbest chargers. No random reboots ala the LG 4400 though, but I have had the phone freeze during a call once. I couldn't hear the other end, and I had to take the battery out. I just don't think Motorola can make a stable UI, by no means is the v400 bad, it just has dumb little quirks.

 

I agree about the Cingular2Cingular call quality, I have noticed when I call my wife she sounds better on her cell phone then the land line.

I had a couple similar issues happen after I loaded a couple mp3 ring tones. A friend told me to scale them back...I changed them to 8 bit mono, they don't sound any different on the phone but take up a lot less space..plus I hack it to about 30 seconds. That has helped....I haven't had anything strange happen since I did that.

 

That must be a problem with the phone. GSM doesn't get static when signal is low. In fact, no digital technology produces static when in low signal conditions, or else it is NOT digital! Now, I did notice one time when a friend's T-Mobile phone got lots of static. He didn't hear the static, but others did in the other end. I asked him to get his phone replaced. After he did that, the static was gone for good. Obviously a faulty chip in the phone was producing that static noise.

When GSM is in low signal conditions, it behaves just like CDMA: Audio garbles and breaks up like any other digital technology, but there's never static, or else someone is using Analog.

 

Well the closest thing I can relate to is static. It does this on all our phones. The audio doesn't garble, though it will break up on occasion. There is a white noise that covers up the transmission. It has done this on Dobson, Cingular, and to a smaller extant ATT. With GSM, it's either 100% or crap. This is coming into my earpeice, the other people only hear audio breaking up....not the white noise. I have heard many, many people complain of static like noise with GSM. Mind you, this is in very low signal situations, not in everyday conversations.

 

Ok I see....I believe you are referring to the white noise some phone decoders create when in low signal conditions. I've noticed that in Nokias but it is very faint. It almost resembles the comfort white the network generates. It is nothing like the static you get in Analog. It is a vocoder noise. Needless to say, in AMR systems this does not happen.

To make this discussion more interesting, one day I was talking with my friend and his Sprint PCS phone went out of range and as the connection cut off and the call dropped, all I heard was static! and this was supposed to be CDMA! I was using a landline and his PCS phone was set to Sprint Only so there's no chance he was roaming on Analog.

Just an example of what digital data corruption can do. Have you ever noticed how it sounds when you download a corrupted MP3?

 

Yes, it's nothing like analog static. What you said makes perfect sense. Ugh, corrupted mp3's, god those are awful!

Isn't this a biotch? I buy a 3200 for 115 with shipping (arrives today), and boom, thanks BestBuy....which is now selling the 3200 gophone for 140$, and I can get a free unlock from techfury @ hofo. Damit! The att one comes new obviously, and has the paper insets for faceplates, as I want to make a UD one. Sigh...

 

The 710 is an awesome phone but its sorta big and ugly....