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Originally Posted by ifonline
This is your reason for not getting the Bold? Really?
I'm in a non-3G area and have great battery life. No complaints. Never bothered switching 3G off just in case I run across a 3G area. I also have WiFi on all the time, as well as bluetooth.
But hey... don't get the Bold because there is no option (on some devices) to turn off 3G. Sounds like a great reason.
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Originally Posted by ifonline
Again, I don't see this problem on my Bold, and I am in EDGE coverage (or worse) all day every day, except those rare occasions that I run errands in the next county (which has 3G coverage). I am also running WiFi all day every day and bluetooth all day every day. I don't see problems with battery life. If the battery life would be better not having the Bold search for 3G, then great. But as it stands, I find battery life on my device excellent.
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Ifonline - this is good info regarding your coverage in remote areas as I was under the assumption that if you don't have 3G the At&t Bold will just not work. So, if I am following you, if your in an area without 3G coverage, you will still be able to use the phone?
One of our engineers was in Atlanta last week, the home of At&t, and he has a Bold. He did not have a connection all day in downtown Atlanta! Not sure what was going on with this at the time or if it just happened to be an outage at the time but nonetheless interesting. We are reluctant to give the device to our upper managers who travel extensively as we are seeing some areas locally where the 3G does not work also.
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Originally Posted by Woodard2589
Wirelessly posted
Leave it tp ATT to find another way to **** its customers
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Woodard, I would agree about At&t except remember how long it took At&t to bring the Bold to market? I am thinking there is more to this than anyone of us will ever know as to why At&t would hobble or cripple the device to not switch to Edge unless there is a valid technical reason which as I said, we will probably never know.
Perhaps Rodgers users can shed some light on their experience like
Infoline is experiencing with how the Rogers Bold switches networks. It would appear that from some of the responses it is a seamless transition. Like I said, you would think that there is a valid reason to cripple the device if there is an known issue they don't disclose about At&t's own network. And then it would also seem that At&t has enough confidence in their present 3G network and know the device will work anywhere like
Infoline At&t Bold does.
A bit of a dilemma for us trying to figure out if the Bold is really ready for Prime Time...
H.