I hate this message board app. The like and thanks buttons need to be moved!
Anyway, I've never had any trouble from tower switches and changes in data speed with my iPhone if that's what you're referring to.
There's a lot of different phones I've had and reviewed in the past. Some great and some awful but the honest best experiences with prior handsets were when the hardware and software both came from the same manufacturer which at that time there were three. Apples once new iPhone, many different BlackBerry devices one of which a personal favorite was my old Bold 9700. Finally, the pre-Microsoft Nokia smartphones that while stylish, were feeling more dated and hard to manage than a legacy BlackBerry 6.0 phone from any provider.
I had used my my Bold 9700 (T-Mobile branded 3G/AWS with UMA (WiFi calling in indoor areas that easily handed off to 3G without dropping your call) later Android phones had the WiFi calling feature but would not hand off to mobile when out of range. Lose your WiFi, your call drops like a bad habit.
This feature was on top end phones such as my previous phone, the Galaxy S3. Only T-Mobile models supported it despite having nearly all the same internals as every other GS3 device on every other carrier still it wasn't seamless like the old BlackBerry was.
Now with the second iPhone I've used on T-Mobile, (an iPhone 5) which literally blows away the GS3 I had in network speed and call clarity.
Sure there's plenty of haters out there but I look at it as having the best of both worlds with my Tab 3 and my older iPad 2 and with the iPhone with LTE speeds (my GS3 lacks LTE so it saw the way of craigslist from a die hard Apple hater) I found it funny as he's talking trash about the iPhone he never realized the speed I was tethered at provided by my iPhone 5 and provided him temporary access over an Apple device.
Needless to say, he was blown away at the speeds of the internet access and was still pulling data when I got a call and answered it. His tune changed a bit as he never seen such quick speed before from an Apple iPhone. I could only imagine if I had a 5S.
The sale of my GS3 did lose me a nice point & shoot camera of which I loved the real time effects filters and the larger display but the change is for the better.
The old S3 would barely last me a day on a full charge. On the other hand, my iPhone will easily last a day and a half under the same conditions.
It's obvious that I'm no brand fanboy or I'd be typing this on a iPad Mini. I simply see more value in the T210 despite the dated OS. It is fast and responsive in most all situations and the value is great even with the largest MicroSDXC card I could stuff in it and the official Samsung book cover.
I've never bothered with rooting it and quite happy with it overall.
I'm curious what you're getting at with ***** phones...?
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 3 via tin cans and string.
Last first, there are problems with LTE band switching on several phones and tablets INCLUDING my single-lte-band Tab 3 7.0 LTE. If it drops back to 3g you sometimes have buggy data and cannot reestablish 4g/lte without toggling Airplane mode. Heck for my region the desk jockey said "it's a bad time to have the Note 3 around here", because network updates were confusing the poor beast. I think this problem is strongest in Sprint multiband markets, but have heard of similar affecting other networks to a lesser extent.
If you can believe, my G Flex has better battery life than my 7.0 LTE under most circumstances. I have been listening to music on my bluetooth over a constant data link for hours now, while browsing. I haven't even used 40% of my battery since I got up this morning. Put it in airplane tonight I could do the same thing again tomorrow. Best life is three days practical thus far, not as miserly in that sense as my 7.0 LTE can go five days at an hour of screen time per day. If I find that my wakelocks are from an unneeded app and get a tad more miserly, I will be able to go four days of web and calling with charge left over.... YES.