Better Reception with the Palm Pre?

Anyone know of a way to get better reception with the Palm Pre? Is there any software or update that could help?

What makes you certain that it's the phone and not the network? I ask because reception is usually hardware or network related and there's very little, if anything, that a software (update) will or can do to improve it.

It maybe a bad phone, I have combed through some other pre sites and have not seen this to be an often reported problem.

If you live close to a Sprint repair center it maybe worth it to have them check it out, I had a Treo 800w with a bad vibrate motor 45 minuets and it was fixed!

I have yet to run into any reception problems. I work in a hospital and used to get a bad reception with my old phone inside due to all of the machines. But I have not had that problem with the Pre. The Sprint network seems pretty wide.

I don't know what these other people are thinking, but you're right. The Pre does have trouble with bad reception. If you do a google search on this, you can probably find a number of forums in which Pre users voice the same concern. Those who had a Blackberry with Sprint and then switch to the Pre, have noticed marked change in their ability to get reception. I wasn't in this boat, but I know that when I'm in the same area as my brother with his Sprint phone, he can get better reception than I can with my Pre and can get reception at places where I get no signal. From correspondence I've hard over the forums, it seems that many of us have problems with reception going in and out, in and out. I think Palm is aware of this issue, and it may be one of the factors that contributed to Verizon deciding not to pick up the Pre in December.

I sometimes have bad reception in buildings, but I think the phone is much better because I get service with it in places that I didn't with other sprint phones....Might just be your phone....

I dont think the model of the phone has nothing to do with the reception, you may want to double check the signal stenght on you area