Questions for T-Mobile N8 Users

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Isabella V.

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I am switching from AT&T to Tmobile at the end of the month as my company will pay for it. I was thinking of unlocking my iPhone but now plan on purchasing an unlocked N8 to use. I have a few questions for Tmobile users:

- I briefly used the Tmobile version of the Nexus One and noticed it rarely stayed on 3G. It loved to camp on 2G and took a while for it to revert back to 3G. Do you N8 users notice the same behavior?

-How is the N8's reception versus other Tmobile phones you have used?

-A few N8 reviews I have read complained of stuttering on outgoing audio (faulty mic). How's call quality? Have people on other end complained of bad call quality?
 
I'm on Tmobile with my N8 and it works great, stays in 3G most of the time, depends on what area you are in, Tmobile has great 3G coverage in most major cities.. last two weeks for me i've been in smaller places so i've had spotty EDGE connections... heck this week i'm roaming on AT&T it seems.. on a EDGE connection :P

reception is the same as other phones i've had on tmobile but they've all been on GSM vs newer tech since they had the wrong frequencies ( E70, N95, N82, 5800 and E72... )

I have not had problems with stuttering or outgoing/incoming audio unless I only had 1 bar sitting in a server room or something.
 
I switched between my AT&T and T-mobile cards alot the first month I had my N8 now the T-mobile SIM stays in all the time. I get 3.5G 90% of the time (T-mo's 4g service). The Up / down speed are FAR better on T-mo than At&t and alot less dropped calls. I do ALOT of conference calls while i'm on the road and I've not got one complaint that my call has bad quality. Every once in a while I'll 'force' the N8 to go to 3G but I only do it for about 30 seconds then switch to auto and it stays on 3G. I've done that maybe a hand full of times since I got the phone in Oct.
 
im very interested in this topic, so the more folks that can talk about it the merrier! any and all details would be great. im an android my touch 4g user, rooted and overclocked to 1208mhz (advertised as 1ghz) how does this phone having only a 680mhz processor compare? i noticed the bb torch is a speedy device compared to my old storm 1 and storm 2 on verizon, and that only has a 624mhz in the torch, but i think blackberry is not such a memory pig compared to android.

would it be safe to assume that my internet speeds on this N8 would be at least close to my speeds on my mt4g or is the browser that bad that it seems crippled like a blackberry 5.0 OS browser? or would firefox or opera be a better experience on symbian.

anyone here use google voice on their N8? thats the make or break for this phone, along with how fast you get your gmail....
 
I am using N8 on tmobile and i have no complains so far, the only thing you will need is the mod to get full size mms images other than that you will be fine
 
I use a workaround putting the website on my home screen so I just open it and click on someone in there and I will get a call from Google and accept it and then it calls the number I clicked. With regards to 680Mhz it is actually 800 MHz and many think it will be changed to 750-800 something with a firmware update maybe with the 2.0 fw. Besides that, Symbian is much kinder than Android when it comes to using the processor and that is also why Android tend to be pretty bad when it comes to battery life.

Here is a multitasking test on the N8 running 13 apps at the same time. I use 15 minutes on my email there is also Mobile Documents which can be installed, apparently it is good for document handling and cloud computing. For now it is beta and free and you can set email to 5 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Z2fSBmptc
 
Hmmm. The HTC made g2 is advertised 800 mhz and is being overclocked as well. So the numbers you are telling me should be great. As for mms I'm not worried I don't use that much.

Tax return just came in. So I'm really thinking about it.

What's the best place to get the n8 so its warrantied.

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No idea :) in my 10+yrs with cell phones I haven't sent a single one.. it's basically a SMS + picture is it not? I send them via email and have not had problems.
 
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