my iphone is a phone?

[WeatherWeasel]

When I am in the mood to annoy someone at Apple or Verizon, I ask a simple question, "So what improvements were made for the phone part?" I get that famous deer in the headlights look.

With all the updates on the phone, we get little if anything on the phone. You know you press the hyperlink or press numbers and talk to someone ? We never hear that if the sound in the ear part is fuzzy to suck out the crud in the thing, or that the voice quality is going to improve. Often it is difficult to hear anything someone is calling or they can' hear me. With 5G Wideband I certainly should be able to get a call equal to the quality on my land line ( we have dsl).

So that would be one area that should be investigated, what is the company doing to have better calls.

Next whine, Siri, Even if I speak slower than a sloth, Siri will screw up things. Doesn't seem to be able to recognize a persons voice patterns.

Ok, those are my beefs of the moment.

 

[MajorFubar]

As a phone my only wish is it had better cellular and 4G reception. Maybe I'm just unlucky enough to live in a poorly-served area, but I don't see Android users struggling to get reception nearly half as much as me, no matter what iPhone I've owned and no matter which service provider I'm with. Lost count of the number of times I've been on a train where the person behind me is holding a full-on zoom call via their Android phone with half a dozen colleagues and my iPhone is sitting there with 'No Service' at the top. It's like the legacy of antenna-gate has never fully gone away. Out in the open I'm ok, but in any enclosed space, first to go is cellular so people can no longer call me except through internet services like WhatsApp or FB Messenger, then when it's really bad (in multi-storey buildings for example) I lose the internet as well.

I almost miss the days when mobile phones had little plastic-covered antennas on the top.

 

[now i see it]

iPhone telephone calls have historically been really bad. No reason to expect anything different.

 

[Ladybug]

I’d have to agree that Apple needs to improve the quality of voice calls and the signal as well. I’m a basic user so voice calls are most important to me. I often struggle with calls cutting in and out where we are still connected but we can’t hear each other. Calls drop sometimes as well. I get so annoyed sometimes I’m tempted to get a land line.

 

[eyoungren]

I’d have to agree that Apple needs to improve the quality of voice calls and the signal as well. I’m a basic user so voice calls are most important to me. I often struggle with calls cutting in and out where we are still connected but we can’t hear each other. Calls drop sometimes as well. I get so annoyed sometimes I’m tempted to get a land line.

Call failures are why we are with T-Mobile and not Sprint anymore. In 2015 they made my wife want to throw a ~$1000 phone through a wall. Since we ditched landlines a very long time ago its essential we have cell service.

I've always blamed that on Sprint but OTOH, I've never experienced LTE or 5G making me speak faster, make my call faster or anything like that. That stuff only seems to work for data!

Not even VoLTE seems to give me faster calls and faster conversations and that's using speedy LTE for voice!

Oh well.

 

[Canyda]

I wish they'd made FaceTime audio between iPhone the default "call" mode. Much better sound quality.