Same here - Rogers is really strong where I live, even though TELUS has a lot of CDMA towers in Calgary.
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So my girlfriend says, "Dump the iPhone!!!"
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Same here - Rogers is really strong where I live, even though TELUS has a lot of CDMA towers in Calgary.
Keep the iPhone!
When she says, "I asked you to do XXXX the other day. What happened?" You now can say "Oh sorry. I didn't hear that -- it must have been the iPhone!"
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Just kidding!!!
When she says, "I asked you to do XXXX the other day. What happened?" You now can say "Oh sorry. I didn't hear that -- it must have been the iPhone!"
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Just kidding!!!
It's not the iPhone problem, you can't hope for the better reception because it already has that. I use mine with Fido (Canada) and the reception is crystal clear, blame ATT for your problems. (Tell your GF that)
That girlfriend of yours should talk more in person and care less about the phones.
He already mentioned that their lunch breaks are too short and their offices are too far apart to meet in person.
Quit reposting the same non-useful drivel over and over. It's not helping.
I agree with daneoni.
Although, if you are keen on a Blackberry you should probably wait a bit for the Blackberry Storm 2.. If rumours hold true (HA!) it should be released a little later on this year.
Just to supply some more information: my lunch break tends to be on the later side 1:45 or 2, so these conversations would be slightly after a "lunch rush hour" if the cells are full. We talk because we like to talk with each other and no my girlfriend isn't demanding in our relationship. This thread is simply a reflection on how bad service from a provider, in this case ATT, can effect people's lives.
I don't think it affects peoples lives that bad. We lived just fine before cell phones and when I do have a hard time talking to my wife I just say I love you and I'll talk to you when I get home. I find it strange how people are so lost with out a cell phone now a days. I admit I love my iPhone, but if it didn't work in an area, it's not the end of the world.
The fact you two call each other like that at lunch is cool. Keep that up, open communication is great to keep a relationship going.
Walk to the nearest starbucks and hop on their wifi network, it should be much less saturated than the cell towers. Get some pre-paid minutes on skype and call her that way. Cheaper than buying another phone to have, and it'd probably work. It'd be the first thing I'd try.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)
Or get iCall. It's free to call and even shows your number in the recipient's caller ID. Works great!
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Or get iCall. It's free to call and even shows your number in the recipient's caller ID. Works great!
Dump her!
If he loved her at all, he would get Verizon.... especially since she didn't command and was nice about it.
hahhhhahahahah
Is that how people show love these days?
"baby, for you I would switch cell service providers."
If the ability to have a clear call with you is the only thing keeping her with you, then there are bigger problems than your having an iPhone.
For fun I looked at this, So for $9.95 I can make unlimited US and Canadian calls? So I can go on my wireless router and make calls using this? Is it a 1 time $9.95 or do I have to pay that monthly or anything?
http://www.icall.com/plans/
Aren't there any wired, landline phones around? If you are indoors there likely is. Use that. Or,....
Buy a pre-paid Verizon phone. Put $100 fill into it and the minutes don't expire for a full year. Not a bad deal at all $100/year for a cell phone.
Save your $2,000 iPhone contract for web surfing and games. Make important calls on the $100 pre-paid phone
I agree with the above 2 comments. Now that Starbucks have shifted their WiFi provider to the O2 Cloud (in the UK think this is the same state side) you can hop on a WiFi network and make the calls, thus also saving money which you could spend on her to make her even happier
When I was in Manhattan a few months back I noticed there is a massive array of free WiFi networks to hop onto. This would be a good solution.
Yep of course
Also people generally dated and married people that lived and worked 2 minutes from each other. The world has become more accesable these days which means using technology we are able to meet different people. As iPhoneNYC mentioned there are time constraints that prevent them from doing this so the solution is a phone call.
Hmm girl or iPhone. No brainer there.
I'd take the girl.
No phone is worth more than a solid relationship... period.
This is by far the most sound advice, technology is just gadgets that we all use, I'd take a relationship with a person any day and if the person was right and "the one" etc then there is nothing I wouldn't give up for them.
If you listen to her, next thing you know is she'll be dressing you in the morning, telling you when and when not to speak, and asking for you to do her laundry. You pick the path to walk down.
This seems a bit extreme, she is asking him to dump the iPhone because it affects their conversation not because she wants to change him
Mate, this statement says it all, your GF is far more important to you than the iPhone and that's something really special.
Try the above advice (WiFi/Skype) or find a phone on Verizon that you really like and keep the iPhone as a WiFi device
Hope you find a solution that works for both of you Am I really the only one who sees something wrong with 99% of these posts:
OP: Hey guys, my iPhone is not so good in the actual calls department. I have a hard time making calls.
Everyone: Get a second phone specifically to use for calling!
Wait, what? He bought an iPhone and now has to buy a different phone to actually use as a phone? That's ridiculous.
EDIT:
I own both the first iPhone and the iPhone 3G and both have terrible calling issues (dropped calls ALL the time and it's not the network). I luckily don't make a million calls a day so it's not a huge issue but if I had to use the phone portion constantly I'd be pretty upset. The first generation iPhone has unbelievably bad speakers. So bad that after using any other phone for more then a day I can't hear anything out of the first generation iPhone and can't use it for calls.
OP: Hey guys, my iPhone is not so good in the actual calls department. I have a hard time making calls.
Everyone: Get a second phone specifically to use for calling!
Wait, what? He bought an iPhone and now has to buy a different phone to actually use as a phone? That's ridiculous.
EDIT:
I own both the first iPhone and the iPhone 3G and both have terrible calling issues (dropped calls ALL the time and it's not the network). I luckily don't make a million calls a day so it's not a huge issue but if I had to use the phone portion constantly I'd be pretty upset. The first generation iPhone has unbelievably bad speakers. So bad that after using any other phone for more then a day I can't hear anything out of the first generation iPhone and can't use it for calls.