varying sig strgnth, two phones, same network..!?!?!

Help me understand the difference between these two Cingular phones & the
signal stregnth they receive. My wife has a MOT V180 phone, where the box
says it operates on GSM 850/900/1800 networks. Standing in a certain spot,
it gets 25% signal. Her mother has a phone on the Cingular network too, she
has a Nokia 1100. It doesn't say anthing about the network it's on, however
standing in the SAME spot, she consistantly gets 100% signal. What's the
difference in how these phones receive their signal? It seems apparent that
the two phones use radically different freq's, but what's the deal here?
-alex

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:27:38 -0500, "Alex Batson"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Help me understand the difference between these two Cingular phones & the
>signal stregnth they receive. My wife has a MOT V180 phone, where the box
>says it operates on GSM 850/900/1800 networks. Standing in a certain spot,
>it gets 25% signal. Her mother has a phone on the Cingular network too, she
>has a Nokia 1100. It doesn't say anthing about the network it's on, however
>standing in the SAME spot, she consistantly gets 100% signal. What's the
>difference in how these phones receive their signal? It seems apparent that
>the two phones use radically different freq's, but what's the deal here?
>-alex

The signal strength meter varies from phone to phone, from
manufacturer to manufacturer. There is no standard between say
Motorola and Ericsson or Motorola and Nokia that says what say 2 bars
v.s. 4 bars means.
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