I have T-Mobile and had my 7 Plus delivered on launch day.
I'll be honest. I don't use my phone that often as a phone. Since getting my 7 Plus on launch day I've used it maybe 3 times from home as a phone. Today was the first time I've used it from work to make a call. On all my previous devices, going back to 5s, the calls were perfect from work.
However on 2 different calls today it cut out non-stop to the point of having to end both phone calls. I'm getting the same signal strength (looking at bars only not DB). I'm not in too densely an area. Meaning, I'm not in an area Pasadena for work with thousands of others tightly packed in. I'm in a large city but not as packed in.
Anyone else have issues with the actual phone on their 7 plus?
Yes, I do have an issue with call quality.
In another thread, I said that I took the time to compare call quality in two places along my commute where I perceived subjectively that the 7 Plus was not making very good phone calls.
In those two places, the 6S Plus (AT&T Qualcomm) made perfect HD Voice calls. Just perfect, crystal clear.
In the exact same places, the 7 Plus (AT&T Intel) was warbly and static, and it was clearly not HD Voice.
Signal strength in both places was about -115, which the iPhone should be able to handle perfectly well.
So we can argue that perhaps AT&T needs to provide better signal; however, my point is that the 6S Plus (Qualcomm) will work perfectly well in places the 7 Plus (Intel) does not work very well.
I'm really just very disappointed in Apple that I'm going to have to spend close to $1,000 to get another iPhone that'll perform well in those places along my daily routine that do not have the signal for which they've evidently released the device.
Now, having said this, I want to back up and say that the iPhone 7 Plus is just *incredibly* powerful in almost every other way. Memory speed, camera, doing several things at once....
I usually don't even put the MacBook in the car anymore, with the 7 Plus in my hands.
So it's a great, incredibly powerful device overall. They've just screwed up with releasing the Intel modem without checking it thoroughly in places with -100 to -120 signal, places where we got used to being able to make solid calls with the 6S Plus.
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Yes, I do have an issue with call quality.
In another thread, I said that I took the time to compare call quality in two places along my commute where I perceived subjectively that the 7 Plus was not making very good phone calls.
In those two places, the 6S Plus (AT&T Qualcomm) made perfect HD Voice calls. Just perfect, crystal clear.
In the exact same places, the 7 Plus (AT&T Intel) was warbly and static, and it was clearly not HD Voice.
Signal strength in both places was about -115, which the iPhone should be able to handle perfectly well.
So we can argue that perhaps AT&T needs to provide better signal; however, my point is that the 6S Plus (Qualcomm) will work perfectly well in places the 7 Plus (Intel) does not work very well.
I'm really just very disappointed in Apple that I'm going to have to spend close to $1,000 to get another iPhone that'll perform well in those places along my daily routine that do not have the signal for which they've evidently released the device.
Now, having said this, I want to back up and say that the iPhone 7 Plus is just *incredibly* powerful in almost every other way. Memory speed, camera, doing several things at once....
I usually don't even put the MacBook in the car anymore, with the 7 Plus in my hands.
So it's a great, incredibly powerful device overall. They've just screwed up with releasing the Intel modem without checking it thoroughly in places with -100 to -120 signal, places where we got used to being able to make solid calls with the 6S Plus.
Although the evidence must be considered more or less anecdotal because it is coming from individual, private users, there is just *so* much evidence piling up now that I think we just have to believe that the Intel modem is just weaker with voice calls in areas of less than optimal signal strength.
The older 6S and 6S Plus iPhones and the 7's and 7 Plus with the Qualcomm modem just don't seem to have the same issues in the same places that the 7's and 7 Plus with the Intel modem are having.
If it's "defective" units, then there sure are a lot of them, and it's quite a coincidence that they all seem to have the Intel chip.
