The iPhone has much better reception than Android phones?
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I've tried many, many Android phones and I am definitely staying with Android but something interesting I have noticed is that the iPhone has much better reception than Android phones?
For example, if I put an iPhone 4S right next to an HTC One M8, the iPhone gets a signal of -81dBm, whereas the M8 gets a signal of -91dBm.
Has anybody else noticed this?
For example, if I put an iPhone 4S right next to an HTC One M8, the iPhone gets a signal of -81dBm, whereas the M8 gets a signal of -91dBm.
Has anybody else noticed this?
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As you can see there are all sorts of variables in there that could easily make any comparison invalid.
Plus I suspect that the OS plays only a small part in this. If you could load Android onto the iPhone or iOS onto the HTC I suspect you would get similar readouts on each device whatever OS it is using. It's more the hardware in the phones that determines signal strength than the software.
To me that says the HTC One M8 has superior reception, at least on 1800/2100 mhz networks.
To say as a broad statement that the iPhone has better reception than all Android phones is a big over-generalisation.
That's perfectly fair enough
In my experience, iPhones have better reception than Android phones. But it's worth saying that I prefer Android as a platform hence I use it over iOS.
You cannot say iPhones have a better reception than Android phones and expect to be taken seriously. It's just so typical of this place to compare an iPhone "handset" to Android which is an operating system. It's like saying my computer is better than Windows 8.
It's makes no sense at all to anyone even slightly technically minded. You could say perhaps in your opinion iOS is better at receiving gsm/LTE or whatever than Android but the even that doesn't work.
You're also saying you've compared the 3 iPhones currently in production with the 5000 Different Android devices in production and found the iPhone to be the better. Which I strongly suspect you have not done.
The posts above, especially the second one contain the reasons why I disagree. I've used plenty of phones which have had a stronger signal than an iPhone.
Can you name one please? I'm just looking for an Android phone with stronger signal than the iPhone.
My LG G Pro 2 for one.
A lot of Motorola phones I've used have also had better signal, the Atrix and Atrix 2 were good.
I'll take a look at then thanks
Nexus 5. Seemed to be better than my dads old 5S when we sat in Costa for coffee. His new galaxy S5 gets a signal where his 5S couldn't as well.
One thing that may be of interest to you is the blue tick phone list from Australian providers like telstra and optus.
If you Google blue tick phones then you should be able to find a list of them. Blue tick phones are phones that work/perform better in rural areas and in fringe coverage areas. Aussies trust the list as the phones have only been given a blue tick if they perform above a certain standard.
I'll take a look.
Thanks a lot
Other thing is the physically larger phones can have more antennas within the case.
and looking at "bars" or "circles" is not a real measure, you have to use the dbm values, nice widget for Android I have on my Moto G and the iPhone gives them in Field Test mode.
iOS does an interesting evaluation of 'quality' as well as raw signal strength (since the 'Antennagate' furore), whereas all other phones just report strength - when deciding how many 'bars' to show.
Well, I suspect about this but have you looked down the Android devices, does both the devices have the SIM card from the same provider? I have also seen that if you are using Prepaid connection then the signal tower is different, and while you use PostPaid connection the signal providers are different I think that may be the reason behind this mismatch and yes one more thing I wouldn't think that this -10dBm is going to make any difference.
That's just what I was thinking.
You can figure it out though. Prepaid means.... prepaid (also known as pay as you go). Post Paid must mean 'contract', or pay monthly.
That's not what we meant.
The stuff about prepaid and postpaid accounts connecting to different towers and getting different reception isn't true in the UK.
I don't think its true in the US either though.
I think there was truth in it a while ago in the UK, but now the networks wouldn't want the bad publicity given the volume of prepay/PAYG customers is higher than contract.
The only thing I can think of is MVNOs getting lower priority on O2 masts but the masts they use aren't different.
That's correct. MVNO's are usually given a lower priority overall.