Publication date: February 2017 - No. 85

Format: downloadable pdf - 15 pages

It would be pretty difficult to run a successful farm business without communications, and the smartphone has become an indispensable tool for most of us. Love it or hate it, our mobile phone is hard to do without, provided you have a reliable phone network in your area. Apart from making and receiving calls; text, email, web browsing and using apps are essential parts of our day-to-day lives.

But ultimately, a phone is pretty useless if it has poor reception and cannot send and receive calls and data from a tower.

Engineers Ben White and Josh Giumelli returned to outback New South Wales to test 30 Next G phones, making this report our biggest phone test to date. Unfortunately, we have found a general decrease in reception strength once again.

Contents:

• Reception strength wanes
• Popular smartphones polarise
• How we test phones
• 2G, 3G, 4G - What's the G?
• Table 1. Phone reception sensitivity based on distance from tower
• Table 2. Phone specifications

• iPhone 7
• iPhone 7 plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone 5S
• iPhone 5C
• iPhone SE
• Google Pixel
• Google Pixel XL
• Moto G4 Play
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
• Telstra Tough Max
• Telstra Signature Enhanced
• Olitech Easy Mate
• Konka U3
• Aspera F24
• HTC Desire 530
• Samsung Galaxy J3
• Samsung Galaxy J1
• Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini
• Telstra 4GX Smart
• Telstra Flip
• Telstra Cruise
• Telstra 4GX Plus
• Telstra 4GX HD
• Telstra Easycall 4
• Alcatel Pixi Vibe
• Huawei Y5
• Huawei P9
• Table 3. Phone networks operating in Australia
• Individual summaries
• iPhone 7
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
• Google Pixel
• Telstra Easycall 4
• Telstra Flip
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone SE
• Telstra 4GX Smart
• Telstra Cruise
• HTC Desire 530
• Samsung Galaxy J1
• Telstra Tough max
• Telstra 4GX HD
• Alcatel Pixi Vibe
• Huawei Y5  

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