On 30 Oct, 22:06, Tim+ wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
Tim+ wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:04:40 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Also, even when I do have 3 "dots" of coverage showing, I still can't
send a text. *Do the dots only refer to Voice coverage rahter than
Text?

It's an iPhone, get used to it. They are designer poser objects rather
than a practical, functional, communications tool.

More ********.

Not totally. Few folk would argue that when it comes to basic signal
reception, they're pretty crap compared to most other phones (or at least
older Nokias).

I take it you mean "few folk who have never used one". Because I get as
good a signal on mine as with my old Samsung and Nokia phones on the same
network.

Nope, I mean my wife and myself who, when on the same network can get a
good usable signal on an old Nokia and "No signal" on an iPhone. Not an
isolated instance either. A repeated observation. *Don't have to look far
on the net to find that this is a common phenomenon.

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Thanks for all the replies, I tried setting it to o2, but it didn't
seem to make any odds except it occasionally came up with a message
saying it couldn't find my chosen network (mostly when going through a
train tunnel) annoying if you're trying to watch a downloaded Iplayer
programme.

I have turned off 3G and I think it may have improved matters, but as
my daughter is at home at the moment, i'm not doing that much texting
from home (which is the main problem area).. As an aside, downlading
emails doesn't appear to be much slower with 3G turned off. Though
accessing uk.d-i-y (Google groups) does :=(( FWIW I just upgraded
from a Nokia (5140? (The rubberised one)), it had similar issues with
coverage, and was no good for email or web access at all!