I did a few tests at the East Lansing Starbucks. I start the call on
WiFi and walk out the front door. By the time I'm 20' away it has
switched over to a tower. I didn't detect any noise during the
switch, but I was outside next to a 3 lane road.
Unfortunately that doesn't work at my house. If I move out of Wifi
range (currently about 20' from my porch for this phone), it drops
the call. I need to move about 7 miles before I can reliably hit a T-
Mobile tower.
The Starbucks has a T-Mobile Hotspot, the phone usually automatically
switches over to WiFi there. (I think that is how it is supposed to
work) Still a few bugs in the system: sometimes I have to use the
phone menu to search for WiFi at Starbucks, then pick the Hotspot. It
automatically connects, don't have to enter a security code or
anything. And rarely I have to power cycle the phone before it will
connect via WiFi.
On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Felix A. Lopez wrote:
Nice write up John. I have Sprint network with Samsung
phone unfortunately locked in for 2 years. However,
the T-Mobile offering looks appealing. So you had
session persistance? Nice. Can you re-clarify that you
did not have to re-authenticate at all? For example
let's say you walk out of Starbucks. Doese the cell
phone seamlessly switch to the TMobile carrier
network? Thanks. F.
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