How is the quality as an actual phone? I'm not really in the market for one since I do have 3 excellent Android phones already but I'm still very interested in the quality that can be gotten for this price point. If I ever catch a stunning discount on it I might pick one up to play around with, poke around in it more than I would with a phone I rely on for daily stuff.
I use my current Androids too much to experiment with them too much.
I'm having a bad day. And I'm dismayed by my expensive iPhone. My husband paid through the nose for the top of the line specs on this one and so far we've had two phone calls between his iPhone 7 Plus and mine and I could barely make out what he was saying. The other day we experimented with VoLTE and AirPods and calls between iPhones and Samsungs and every combination and setting and type of call we could think of and eventually our connection between the iPhones was bell clear and perfect. But that initial call was garbage.
So, today, my dog was sick. Poor thing needed to be hosed down outdoors--fortunately it's a hot day and the dog likes water. And she needed it...major mess. Bedding had to be thrown out, the whole works. She's older and has a delicate digestion like my previous dog had when he got about this age. Once something upsets it, that's it for a few days, I'm on doggy nurse duty. We just deal.
I had to call my husband for instructions to locate and turn on a water valve to the back yard, since it was shut off during the winter and we have a mess of valves going everywhere. So there I was stressed and under the gun to get everything under control and try and get instructions from my husband to make sense of the plumbing maze in front of me.
We had the most ridiculously garbled connection. It was clear in the sense that there was no static or anything like that. And if he talked for a couple of words at a time like "Hi honey, what's up" it was fine. But when he had to launch into detailed instructions it sounded like "blurp blurp valve blurp garble wall pop blurb garble". I complained and my husband put in his AirPods and then I could understand him better. Then we face timed and that was just so sad. There was such lag. Phones this expensive should be clearer than that especially with full bars of signal strength and usually great connections on my other phones.
90% of the time my iPhone 7 Plus is aces at what I need it to do. But when I need to actually talk on it, dammit, I need to actually talk on it. Is that too much to ask? /rant
So yeah, I'm massively curious about how a phone half the price of mine functions as an actual bleep blurp phone.
AT&T is the carrier, right? Have they given you a signal booster at all? If that doesn't help, it's definitely the crappy Intel modems Apple uses if it's an AT&T iPhone model. That's why I am done with the iPhone for the foreseeable future. I got rid of mine intel modem T-Mobile model since it's pure crap with call quality.
