Reception Signal strength

[Guest goose]

I just got my new MPx200 two days ago and love it. I had an original SPV so all the quirks of the M$ OS do not bother me at all. Well... kind of...

I noticed the SPV had particularly bad signal strength, but it worked ok most of the time. I have had 3 altogether (1 replaced, 1 lost :roll:). It got noticeably worse in the past couple of months, which persuaded me to upgrade. No cell sites or whatever are currently down so it SHOULDN'T be an orange issue, I do get a good signal in other parts of the flat.

However, the MPx200 is WORSE than the SPV in my home office! :evil: This is really bad news and I am contemplating sending it back. A Nokia seems to work fine here...

I have sorted a temporary solution so that I can evaluate the phone (LOVE the form and performance otherwise... will be gutted if I have to send it back...) - basically I have put the cradle in a position where I appear to get at least one "bar" all the time, and am controlling it via remote display control for windows CE (which works a treat actually) and I will just hold down the answer key to put the phone on speaker phone without moving the handset as I hear speakerphone works well.

I would obviously love to use the phone as normal though and was wondering if anybody had any idea how to boost signal strength?

I fear it is a Smartphone OS thing as both SPV and MPx200 perform poorly in my office, whereas Nokias seem to be ok. Other than that the phone is amazing.... :lol: I REALLY want to keep it....

cheers

gus

[Guest gunark]

Yup - can confirm this too. Mate has a Samsung (the Beckham one) on Orange and they get 4/5 bars, where I struggle to get 1-2. Brilliant phone but if this is the case then it's unable t do it's primary function and therefore is well, useless.

Fixable?

[Guest goose]

yep, as I thought :lol:

I really does make me sad as I love everything else about the MPx200.

It's got to be the Smartphone 2002 OS, certainly had the same problems with the SPVs I owned.

Unfortunately I did ask about the 2003 OS to people with the E200, and they did say it was improved, but I don't really believe that as I also asked people who had upgraded to the MPx200, and they said it was improved too... if anything it's SLIGHTLY worse than the original SPV. I don't believe for a second that this is a Motorola issue although I would have believed it possible to be an HTC problem, it actually is Micro$oft at the end of the day...

thanks for your comments gunark... was beginning to think I was cursed or something!

Suggestions for alternative handset that syncs nicely with Outlook?

I may just hang on to my SPV until the contract is up (nearly upgraded early as I was fed up with signal strength) but this lovely MPx200 will be going back to orange tomorrow.. :D :)