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re: Taking... Took the Essential Phone plunge [update #1]
Posted on 11/22/17 at 10:37 am to lsu223
Posted on 11/22/17 at 10:37 am to lsu223
I just got mine yesterday but was at work last night and just had the chance to set it up. My signal performance is a lot weaker than my note 5.. Gonna use the tail period as much as I can to see if it's usable in all the locations I travel, if so I'll deal with it! Other than that I like the size of the phone and haven't experienced and lagging like in the Reddit thread yet! I haven't upgraded to Oreo beta and probably won't. So far so good for me!
Posted on 11/22/17 at 2:28 pm to CENLALSUFAN
Couple of places I go I realized I don't have service. Thought it was odd since my wife's Moto had service and in out house our signal strength was identical. Downloaded LTE discovery app and realized that I was on band 12 while my wife's was on band 4. Because the essential couldnt latch on to the faster band 4 it had to drop back to the wide band 700mhz. Her phone beside mine on identical bands is 12dBm higher signal strength, which is a pretty significant difference. My phone is almost always on the slower 700mhz band while hers is on the faster band 4. Then when I go into a building I'll lose band 12 while hers drops from 4 to 12 and keeps coverage while mine loses coverage. Love the phone. Love the screen. Software works just fine. Battery life is great. But if I can't rely on a signal then it is pretty much just a fancy brick.
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