Mobile Radio / Call Quality Report - Excellent, So Far

[texinwien]

Just setting up my HTC one (International version running on T-Mobile's network in Austria).

I'm thrilled to say that for the first time in 5 years living in this flat, I can make a phone call with excellent call quality from inside my flat.

I've lived in the same flat in Vienna for a little more than 5 years, and have had a number of cell phones during that time (Nokia and Sony Ericsson 'dumb' phones; Samsung Galaxy S 4G & HTC Sensation 4G). My girlfriend's had a number of phones during the same time period. Additionally, I've had a number of friends with different phones on every single Austrian network try to get reception inside my ground floor flat with practically zero luck. Reception inside the flat varies from 0 to two bars on most phones, and unless I'm standing directly by a window, at least 50% of calls dropped, and probably 90% of calls cut out.

That's all changed today. I'm getting between 2 and 3 bars on my HTC One X from every location in the flat. I just finished my first relatively long phone call ever from inside with 100% call quality.

My report's anecdotal, and could be a temporary fluke, but so far it's looking like the mobile radio on the HTC One X trumps that of every other mobile phone I've used in this flat.

Will report back as I get some longer-term experience.

--tex

 

[texinwien]

Follow-up #1:

After 10 hours of use in my flat, I'm getting the same excellent results consistently on my mobile signal reception. At the time of my first report, we had clear skies in Vienna. Now it's cloudy with rain storms on the way, so the initial good reception didn't have anything to do with the clear skies earlier today.

I'll watch it over the next few days and see whether it stays the same - looks excellent, so far.

-tex