The dead spot in town...

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halfwayhome22

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I have a customer who I am trying to help. We live in a small town, and Cingular is the only network present...and he has Cingular service.

He has a Motorola v551 and it's a nice phone that gets good reception...everywhere but his house. He lives 150 feet from the center of a cell dead spot in our town.

I loaned him my old Nokia (unlocked T-Mobile) and it gets 5 bars in his house. His Moto get 0 or .5 bars at best. (It's not the Moto phone...he's had 2 of the same model, same results. And, friends have the same results, in his house) He appreciates the fact that the Nokia works, but the old Nokia sounds tinny, has no features, and he insists he wants a flip phone.

Do any phones get that kind of good reception, and yet have the flip form factor? I'm trying to help him narrow his search.

-- Chuck Knight
 
Not to my knowledge. I do not have (nor do I want...style over substance, and not much style) a RAZR, and I am the one trying to help him with this.

If the RAZR is actually better at pulling in a signal than his current phone, then I'll suggest it. Maybe our local Cingular store will let him borrow one and see if it'll work.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-- Chuck Knight

P.S. What about the new Nokia flip phone? How is it?
 
I'll second the suggestion for the Nokia 6102. I have one of those in addition to my Razr, and I've found the reception to be almost as good as the Razr's.
 
The key word from yuyi64 is 'almost'. The RAZR performs very well in low RF areas. If you can, lend your friend one of each and see which one works best for him. RAZR is not style over substance. It had a good feature set when it came out over a year ago and the V3i is comparable with today's feature sets. Not the best, but comparable...

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