![]() God forbid I should drive into an area where the Samsung might be at -110 or so, still good enough to hold onto a call but if I was using the iphone in that area, I might be at around -120 or worse, dropping calls like mad. Still no terrible, but the difference is meaningful. With the iphone mini that I have been using for the past week, it's been anywhere from -85dBm to about -95dBm. But my average dBm measurement with my Samsung has been between -70 and -83 or so in the room I am sitting in right now. Androids have always had better reception than iphones but it's never really been a big enough difference to deter me from owning an iphone from time to time. ![]() I've been using and paying attention to phones and their signal strengths for many years. Don't confuse speed tests with reception though as speed can vary by an enormous amount based on several factors the most common being network congestion. On the other hand, speed tests have shown it to be much faster. ![]() That said, in comparing the results with a couple of Android phones that I have and with what I remember getting the last time I owned an iphone, in spite of the bad field test, I can honestly say based on many many measurements over the past week that the reception on the mini is about the same, maybe a bit worse than previous iphones I have used. Signal strength can vary greatly from moment to moment. It just does not update frequently enough and one measurement that you see when you run it, may or may not be very indicative of what's really going on over the course of several minutes. Unfortunately, Apple has rendered field test mode almost useless in its latest form. The way to measure signal strength is by going into field test mode and looking at the dBm measurements. A phone can show 4 bars and actually have worse reception than a phone showing 2 bars. What I've noticed is that the phone displays more bars but this is no indication of anything as bars are arbitrary.
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