Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cheap Cellular Phones Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 06:11:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 478, message 3 of 9 In article , tel@hound.att.com (Thomas E Lowe) writes: > I have seen ads here in NJ for Novatel Car phones for 88 dollars. > Has anyone out there had any experience with Novetel phones? A friend was trying out one of their handhelds. He brought it by and we did an informal comparison with my GE Mini (made by Mitsubishi), also a handheld. The audio quality was terrible; the voice was almost unintelligible because of a weird peak in the audio spectrum. In places where my GE was solid, the Novatel was experiencing severe fade on the same system. It's possible that it was, for some reason, working a different cell, but overall the performance was unimpressive and it certainly didn't hold a candle to the GE. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !