New to T-Mobile, picking up GSIII tomorrow, worried about signal?

MattMJB0188

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Apparently the device suffers from death grip when you grip the left side of the phone. However, the device is not dropping the signal completely, its just going to EDGE. T-Mobile has very good coverage here but I am worried about this issue.

Can anyone comment on this? Is this likely to be corrected in an OTA update? I left T-Mobile last year for the iPhone 4S on AT&T and that was a mistake in more ways than one.

I also tried out AT&T's Galaxy S III and found it to be excellent. LTE speeds weren't that great in my area but nonetheless, it was a very good device. The signal on the AT&T version seemed fine.

If I go back to T-Mobile tomorrow, I don't want a device with a poor signal. Never good to have.
 

jaymzb0nd

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Re: New to T-Mobile, picking up GSIII tomorrow, worried about sig

I haven't experienced the death grip issue, especially since I use my bluetooth headset the majority of the time, but this phone sucks in terms of service. My 6 year old Blackberry has better service in certain places than the S3 and it's frustrating.

At my home I connect to the Wifi to make sure I have service but the S3 also sucks at that, constantly dropping calls and being unable to send messages because of a poor connection that my last phone, the MyTouch4G, never had a problem with.