[Gllug] iPhone 4 or Android phone

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 16 July 2010 09:22, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> Nobody seems to have asked the only important question so far. What,
> aside from being able to make phone calls, is important to you in your
> mobile?
>

Well, "What, aside from being able to make phone calls" seems to be
only what the reviews are interested in.
I have not seen any that measure how good the phone is at making calls
in marginal circumstances.
I have a Nokia smartphone and also an old Nokia 6310.
In my office, I have no problems making calls with the Nokia 6310.
The Nokia smartphone has problems all the time with voice cutting out
and stuttering.
Colleagues in the office also have problems with other smartphones,
E.g. Samsung ones, Blackberries etc..
So, I conclude that the reception problem is fairly common amongst all
smart phones.

There is a very good reason for this, and I don't think the
manufactures will be able to cure it any time soon, which is, I think,
why everyone is keeping quiet about it. It is a very simple reason;
The CPU in smart phones is faster than old Nokia 6310 phones, and that
gives off more interference so as a result the signal to noise ration
for smart phones is always going to be worse than the Nokia 6310.
Hopefully, these iphone4 signal problems will start reviewers testing
other phones.

There is a way round the noise caused by smartphone CPUs, and that is
by moving them to a new CPU technology called async clocking instead
of sync clocking.
Async clocked CPU are somewhat expensive at the moment, but hopefully
soon this will improve. If more reviewers measures the S/N ratio for
mobile phones, maybe the manufactures would start seeing demand for
phones that can actually make calls where other phones cannot.

Kind Regards

James
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