Motorola DROID<\/a>, it was about 1 to 2 bars of service. A call between the two phones sounded absolutely terrible, with cut outs and so much vocal digitization that it was a very unpleasant experience.<\/p>\nYes, there was \u201c3G\u201d service at our house, but making a phone call seemed to be a challenge \u2013 so, sorry Verizon. I can\u2019t hear you now.<\/p>\n
(And I\u2019m aware of the Wireless Network Extender, but it has a bunch of caveats about size of house, network bandwidth, etc., that we can\u2019t necessarily adapt to).<\/p>\n
Phones will be returned. <\/p>\n
AT&T didn\u2019t even know we temporarily considered other options. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My wife and I decided to switch our cell phone service to Verizon, to join the USA\u2019s most awesomest network. We bought 2 new Android phones, figured out what plans to get \u2026 it took about an hour and half in the store. 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