What cell phone gets the best reception?

[Gerald S]

Once upon a time, I was a sales manager for a mobile phone company. The phone itself can and will make a difference, however, there is more to it than that. Cell towers have different carriers for the same company. That means, if Sprint, for example, has a tower up, they will push out 4 different signals and your phone is programmed to pick up an individual signal (carrier). If your phone is programmed for carrier 1 but carrier 4 has the best signal, you get hosed. So, spending money on a new phone may or may not help you out. Hope this makes since.

For the record, Nokia does seem to pick up better...for some phone service. Cingular runs a different type network and Nokia is great for them. On the flip side, nokia sucks on the CDMA (Sprint) network.

I'm boring myself now...

[BigL]

I have Cingular (now AT&T) because it was the only one that I could get reception at my property. I have no problem in Texas with it.

[happy bowhunter]

Cingular ATT Nokia phone works better than others i have had

[huntmaster]

I just got a RAZR and it works. Devin showed me on his phone that there is a #(I think 4 digits) you can push to get better service in a particular area. Anyone know anything about that?

[bearintex]

I just got a Nokia N75 (AT&T service). While I rarely had any problems getting signal with my old, 1st generation Razr, this one is leaps and bounds better as far as sound quality. If you have any signal, you've got a clear canversation, just as if you were face to face. Only problem with the phone is that the battery life sucks balls.

[Cur_Dog]

Huntmaster, that sounds interesting. Anyone? Nokia sounds like the phone. I know Blackberry's are good too.