From perfect to dropping the call.

Switched in 2006 from Verizon to ATT. With Verizon I was constantly having dropped calls and was not able to use my phone inside my mobile home. ATT is much better... ..rarely have dropped calls, consistantly get 5 bars

3G, always have great reception, no dropped calls in 7 years at home. Sometimes have lost calls going over West Hills or Germantown Rd.

Full bars on my new Nokia e71. I think there are 7 bars on this thing, and all 7 are lit up. Granted, I am right next to the Fire Station and they have a ton of towers all around them. I just got the "PDA Personal" "Pay as you Go" data plan with unlimited data, no phone minutes (its extra for that). Its $35.00 per month plus ~$5.00 in taxes. I can do Skype in place of a phone plan with them. I can also add text minutes, if I want, which I do not. I will be entering more cell reception reviews for the local area (Banks, OR tonight - trip to the midwest in the next month).

As always, Verizon never fails me in reception on my Nokia camera phone. I drive all over the state, and all over the country for that matter. Verizon is "the bomb". I just have to hunt high and low for quality phones that I like (that don't suck), but once I found my *cute* little Nokia 6236i camera phone? I bought it outright and have been very happy.

Solid performance on voice. I don't use text or internet, but the signal indictor is 5 of 5. I don't like dealing with the company, but cellular service in Portland area is very good.

I've got to let folks know that my $49.99 phone from Cricket outperforms my wife's phone from AT&T hands down. I haven't dropped one call and that includes inside my house and in my office in downtown Portland. My wife continually complains about dropped calls in the west hills and on Scholls Ferry road. The only area I had some interference was on West Burnside going up the hill from downtown. Cricket seems to be a very good deal.

cricket is an awesome plan, I get great reception everywhere, and every year when I go to Michigan, I just get some cheap roaming minutes, and the roaming coverage is great too.

Good reception in most parts of Tigard, including where I live (near Summerlake Park).

I must disagree with the January 3rd 2006 comment. I get pretty good reception in the same area that person is. My phone is not supposed to be that great of one, but I have no problems whatsoever. My wife has the Nokia 3210 and she doesn't seem to have any problems with reception either. These are our only phones, and we also have good reception in our basement, which I can't say the same for my parents in our basement with Qwest. They were on roaming for some reason.

Best cell reception I have had! I rarely drop calls. I used to have to watch where I went, but lately I have coverage everywhere.

The only places around town where it drops calls are in underground garages and inside a large building (like in a hospital). This is in sharp contrast to when I used to have AT&T wireless a couple of years ago, when calls were dropped so frequently that my friends thought I was developing antisocial personality traits.

My cell is my only phone and it works at all time.

I have had no problems with T-Mobile reception anywhere in Portland. I always seem to have a good signal.

My cricket phone is the cheapest one they had and it works great. I had a razor with T-Mobile that dropped calls all the time and barely worked in my apt. in Tigard. Plus, my bill is always the same! Hands down... .. BUY CRICKET!

Always get 5 Bars around the neighborhood, sometimes 4. I never had 2 bars in this area. Great voice quality, great reception.

on my last post, I said that this phone is vary accessible to blind and visually impaired people who can not read the phone's screen as far as caller ID, and knowing how many bars of signal strength they have. This phone will announce all that including the menu options you scroll through, as well as announcing if you are out of the servis area or not. Every where I go, I have 6 bars total. But even at 2-3 bars the phone picks up the signal vary vary well. But, in order to have the phone announce caller ID, and menu options out loud to you, it must be in announce mode. There are several ways to do this. go to menu, voice, sound modes, and select announce mode, and highlight on or off. Press OK. Or press the left voice command key and scroll to that option and press ok. Note. The phone will announce the command option you are scrolling to. Or say announce into the ear piece or speaker. Then you should hear the phone say, announce mode activated if you turn it on or deactivated if you turn it off. Conclusion. For thoughs of you sited people out there who have this phone, I am sorry that you guys were having so much trouble with it. This depends on a variety of things. either the phone was dropped on a hard serfis that made it degrade performance over 3 months, or it just was defected in general. But Over all, this LGVX4650 from Verizon wireless is a beautiful phone that helps out blind people like me in thoughs ways that I have said before. This is a grate beautiful phone that works well, and because you sited people had so much trouble with it, I'm vary sorry to here that. If you have not done so already, call Verizon and let them know you would like to upgrade to a better phone that will suit your needs. but wait until your new every 2-year registerd comes along.

I have very good reception, I give the service Verizon Provides a 5. I did not have very good reception when I had Qwest, and Cingular. My phone calls with Verizon don't drop, but it did when I had Cingular.

Always good reception, no problems around town (incl. tigard, tualitin, I-5 / Barbur, clackamas, beaverton, etc..). Some issues on 'Bonny Slope' area west of downtown over the mountain / hill thing (thompson road). No other carriers work there, either, however. Text messages do, but no voice.

Cingular is awsome all round. I hav't had many problems and even used to have them when they where ATT! They where good then, I had a simiens phone. Plain an simple though. Cingular RULES! CDMA (Limited use technology) GSM (Used Around World) So if the world uses it. Why keep somthing that is going to go away soon? bye bye CDMA!