Booop!

I too hate AT&T’s ser­vice (or lack thereof). Almost every­where I’m at (Palm Springs), there is hardly any bars… what the hell is all that “more bars in more places” bull­shit? That said, I still love my iPhone, just wish it was more usable now and then.

I per­son­ally think AT&T is over­selling their net­work, caus­ing all of this to hap­pen. But I also hate Verizon, so I am glad Apple didn’t go with them because I prob­a­bly wouldn’t have bought the iPhone. At one time, I hate Verizon so much that I started to hate James Earl Jones by proxy.

Yeah, the only way Verizon would be bet­ter is that their “faux-horror-movie-dead-zone” com­mer­cials would be more fun to mock.

I don’t know about you, but per­son­ally I wel­come any tele­vi­sion ad that calls all non AT&T sub­scribers “dill weeds”.

I remem­ber the phrase “dill weed”. I used to call peo­ple that when I was a kid when I was jeal­ous of some­thing they had.

@josh: At the end of one of the more recent ones (the chick obsessed with the swim­mer) I’m pretty sure you can hear her say “bitch.”

Yeah, our neigh­bor­hood blows for cov­er­age in a lot of places. I have the same prob­lem at my house. Oh, and for­get about using it inside Casey’s thanks to the cop­per roof.

Where did you finally find one BTW?

@Bryan Payne: Amusingly, the AT&T; sig­nal starts to pick up right about where my WiFi drops out.

I ended up get­ting mine at the Biltmore last night. Turns out you can hack the avail­abil­ity page by chang­ing your local sys­tem time and they had all 3 mod­els in stock; plus they’re halfway between my office and home. 90 min­utes of wait­ing and 10 min­utes of acti­va­tion later was was all iPhoned up.

I too have no ser­vice in my house (weak ser­vice all over my side of town really,) but the iPhone fea­tures some­what make up for this fact. So a cou­ple months after I got the iPhone I got a phone from Verzion I use exclu­sively to make calls. So I guess I now have a really expen­sive iTouch with a monthly fee.

Btw, I live in Baltimore, MD

Tgats really the biggest deci­sion regard­ing any phone pur­chase – does the ser­vice suck ass by you. It’s why my friend had to leave Sprint. It was my biggest poten­tial issue with AT&T. I’m still on the “test­ing” phase, but it looks fine. I’m not 3G, so a part of me really wants that old plan, though. Hehe… At least I’m on the road enough in places I can take advan­tage. Performed well at the last Hilton I was at. Now if only a good teth­er­ing app would hit the store…

wha…? OK, seri­ously, how does “tgat” seem to con­tin­u­ously slip by in-auto-corrected, when I can plainly see that it DOES auto-correct! That’s three sep­a­rate occa­sions for me now.

Hrmp.

In gen­eral, I’m quite sat­is­fied with the cov­er­age I get on my iPhone. I get any­where from accept­able to really good recep­tion most places I go, which in the year since I bought it includes San Francisco, Los Angeles (I even got a call out from right under the Hollywood sign), Paradise, CA, Oklahoma, Israel, and of course my home­town of Modesto.

That being said, how­ever, for some rea­son there’s some­what of a dead zone in the neigh­bor­hoods around and near my house. It’s as if you step over the thresh­old and all recep­tion is sucked out of any cell trans­mit­ters that enter. It’s really annoy­ing when I can’t make calls from the com­fort of my own toi­let, and con­sid­er­ing how pop­u­lated the dead zone is, I would think it would be a good idea for AT&T to erect a nearby tower. But they prob­a­bly won’t, and since I’m mov­ing soon it’ll be largely irrel­e­vant for me.