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Survey Claims Fewer Dropped Calls for iPhone 4 Than iPhone 3GS

My iPhone 3G occasionally drops a call, same with my wife’s 3Gs (although a little less frequency). My iPhone 4, before I returned it, was dropping calls left and right. I returned it and went back to my 3G and all is well in the world again. Don’t get me wrong I would rather have the speed and beauty of the iPhone 4 but I am not paying that much money for a defective product. Now, not that BlackBerry could ever touch an iPhone for web browsing or media content but both my BB 8800 and now my BB9700 (work phones) NEVER drop calls, they are damn near bullet proof devices….oh and they are on AT&T as well. As much as I do love the iPhone and think they are great all in one device I have personally never thought they were that great of a “phone” in general. Just my 2 cents.
 
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I talk to a lot of people who like their iPhone 4 in general - for the features and the fact that they want an iPhone... BUT ALL, not most, ALL that I have spoken with commented that they get more dropped calls, with or without a bumper.

Hey Apple, if you want to pay me (like you pay these survey companies), I'll say nice things about you too....errrr maybe not.
 
dernhelm said:
Speaking of that, who are these people that wait on a dead line for over a minute before hanging up?

"bzzzht... Joe, you there? Joe? bzzzzhsht.... Uh hello, I can't tell if you're there or not, so I'll just hang out here for another 45 seconds..."

Sit there on a dead line with a phone to your ear for 60 seconds and tell me that it's a normal thing to do.
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Exactly, it makes no sense. There is no "dead line" in cell phones, is there? No dial tone. I don't have iPhone or AT&T, but when I lose a call, my phone is already dropped to ready mode within half a minute. I wonder what they are really measuring.
 
************. My iPhone 4 and ALL my friends' iPhone 4 are crap. They drop call after call all day long. We're in NYC; not exactly the desert. The iPhone 4 sucks as a phone. Period.
 
Popeye206 said:
Wow! I never thought I'd see someone trying to "put down" the Retina display on the iPhone4. It's an obvious improvement over the old screen and great clarity.
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Not a put-down. Just a comment that a user needs close to average vision or better for the Retina display to be an obvious improvement. Not sure what percentage of the population has 20/40 vision, but it's not zero.

The world isn't all black or white.
 
e-coli said:
My iPhone 4 and ALL my friends' iPhone 4 are crap. They drop call after call all day long. We're in NYC; not exactly the desert.
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Reports are that NYC was one of the worst places for any iPhone (not just the i4) in terms of dropped calls. In the desert, near a cell tower, you'd probably encounter a lot less interference from other users, or city zoning regulations prohibiting that tower from even being nearby.

In areas with feeble AT&T coverage, it really helps to "hold different" (grab the top of the phone, not the bottom.)
 
firewood said:
Not a put-down. Just a comment that a user needs close to average vision or better for the Retina display to be an obvious improvement. Not sure what percentage of the population has 20/40 vision, but it's not zero.
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Huh? My vision isn't 20/40, but I can still see a dramatic difference between the new display and the old. I think you'd have to be legally blind not to.
 
LagunaSol said:
Huh? My vision isn't 20/40, but I can still see a dramatic difference between the new display and the old. I think you'd have to be legally blind not to.
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Agreed,even though I returned my iPhone 4. I need reading glass to read the screen and the iPhone 4 screen, to me, was a 1000 times better than my 3G version. It was so much clearer and easier to read. I dont know how you can not notice the difference.
 
e-coli said:
************. My iPhone 4 and ALL my friends' iPhone 4 are crap. They drop call after call all day long. We're in NYC; not exactly the desert. The iPhone 4 sucks as a phone. Period.
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YMMV greatly - on the Upper West Side, signal is consistent, no dropped calls.

LagunaSol said:
Huh? My vision isn't 20/40, but I can still see a dramatic difference between the new display and the old. I think you'd have to be legally blind not to.
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Very much agreed.

20/20 - regardless, the clarity and vividness of the display are truly remarkable - markedly better than that of the 3GS.
 
MacRumors said:
claiming that AT&T systems only register a call as dropped once its network automatically terminates a call due to loss of the connection, a process than can take over a minute. In doing so, AT&T misses counting as dropped those calls manually ended by one of the calling parties after voice transmission has been lost but before the network terminates the call.
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I find this hard to believe, can someone in the US test this out:

1. Call a wired phone from an AT&T mobile phone.
2. Wrap AT&T mobile in tinfoil / aluminium foil
3. Time how long it takes before wired phone registers the call has dropped.

Try step 1 the other way around out of interest too.

It takes less than 5 seconds on any Australian network btw.

Thanks
 
I live in Northern rural Minnesota and have never even once had a dropped call. I feel the call quality is great and am not sure what all the fuss is about.
 
Didn't Apple already admit that the iPhone 4 drops more calls than the 3GS? I think so!! They wouldn't admit to this if it wasn't true. It just shows that people believe who they want to believe to make themselves happy, even if it means disagreeing with Apple!!

This isn't just an AT&T problem. I'm on o2 in the UK and drop calls almost daily where as I don't recall dropping any with my 3G or 3GS.

Some people really need to open up their minds. Just because they're iPhone doesn't present the defect in their location doesn't mean that everyone else is making it up or going out of their way to show the defect. For ME the iPhone 4 is far worse (as a phone) in MY LOCATION than my old 3GS. I don't need any made up statistics to tell me otherwise.

The display is fantastic, and that goes for the camera too!
 
That could be true...

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after updating to IOS 4 my 3GS, not just drops more calls, but even switches off on every tenth call.
So, I understand now, how "Researches" do interpret those fresh problems.
 
iPhone 4 here, with Rogers in Canada.

Never experienced dropped calls with my 3G - okay, maybe one or two since August 2008, let's be fair. But none so far with my iPhone 4.

We might pay big $ for our plans up here but at least our networks aren't garbage. Granted, there's only about 36 million of us up here, so . . .
 
9secondadidas said:
I dropped more calls in one day with an iPhone 4, than I have in 3 years of using 2g, 3g, and 3gs. I guess I'm in the minority. My two coworkers have both dropped a lot of their calls. I suppose they are in the minority as well.
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Same here! Mine even drops when I'm using the speakerphone so I'm not even holding it. I wish I had my 3GS back :(
 
Come on MacRumors! A survey with 213 users for a product that has sold millions?
That is a highly inaccurate and unprofessional survey and you should be ashamed to actual post something like that on the news site!
 
Fewer dropped calls... HA! I live in a major city and drop calls all the time. Instead of one per month... Try 5 a day! Way more than my 3G. That said, I still prefer this phone over my old one.
 
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