tomcat777
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Good luck! Either which way you go, The Note 9 is an awesome phone. As much as I liked my Note 8, the 9 just seems to go above and beyond in every way.
No, it's a combination of the modem (the same for all GSM carriers) and the signal strength. If you don't have great signal strength with AT&T, you're using the wrong carrier (and it's costing you battery).Tomcat777.. Now you have me rethinking this. Shoot... My coverage is not great. Wonder if I flashed Att firmware if that would make it better?
You can change thast tgo have the Google Voice number call your cellphone. Then give out your Google Voice number. No worry about porting anything if you change carriers, part of the country, parts of the world (planet, when we get to Mars and have Mars internet and Earth internet connected together), etc. I'm still not sure of my phone number, but I've been using my GV number as "my" number for years. When they ask if I want my old number ported, I say "no, don't bother, that's not the one I use anyway", then have to explain how GV works.- There is no visual voice mail (you have to manually dial in to vmail). I fixed this by signing up for a Google Voice number and having unanswered calls and busy calls forwarded to that and use that as voice mail instead. It is much better than AT&T visual voice mail, so I would probably do this even if I had AT&T visual voicemail.
Well, for me it was supposed to be the ability to switch to Verizon this fall. AT&T is terrible in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area, so I had a grand plan to get the free headphones and $400 for my Note 8 and then switch the whole family over (iPhone users) in October. I had no idea of the issues with losing features until after I had ordered the phone and the pre-order deals went away. It was then then I started coming across posts about unlocked phones, and that they are even worse on Verizon.
So, it seems to be working fine for me so far (we'll see how it goes when I travel in rural areas) and I plan on sticking with this phone for the next year. AT&T is so bad out here that I might not notice a difference! If it goes fine, I will stay with unlocked for the flexibility. If nothing else, I'll know a lot more about unlocked phones! Still might switch to Verizon this fall...
I thought ATT had a visual voicemail app available on the Play Store... I think I've read threads about it before.
Actually, I have used the Note 9 unlocked on both AT&T and Verizon and in my experience this is not accurate. Got my unlocked Note 9 last Friday and had it on AT&T until Tuesday. No VOLTE or HD Calling. You can talk and use data simultaneously but it drops you down to HSPA+ for data. With Verizon, VOLTE works and I have been able to talk and browse on LTE. Not that that is a deal breaker, I find HSPA to be plenty fine and I'm not talking and browsing at the same time very often.
Wifi Calling does not appear to work for either carrier. I've yet to try to set up visual voicemail for Verizon but I use Google Voice for my voicemail so there is no need for native visual voicemail.
No, it's a combination of the modem (the same for all GSM carriers) and the signal strength. If you don't have great signal strength with AT&T, you're using the wrong carrier (and it's costing you battery).
Can't you use wifi calling with Google voice?
Google Voice is just an app.
Mine shows it.
I just don't see it anywhere in settings. I guess that's why I never knew it was possible.