It's been one of those love-hate weeks. I got a Droid Incredible telephone. I love it. It's busy doing all sorts of wonderful things for me, including monitoring my servers and waking me up in the middle of the night if anything goes wrong :-). Okay, that's part of the love-hate.
But in general I love the phone. Everything works. I've not found it difficult to deal with. And after a fury of downloading apps, I've finally settled down and started to actually use it.
Here comes another hate part. My home office is in a very rural area in a horseshoe-shaped valley. Cell phone coverage was always sparse with AT&T, but with Verizon it has been the pits. It's okay if I leave the house. It's great in our driveway. But in my office it's dropped-call-city.
Verizon sells a small femtocell system for just this purpose. We have great broadband coverage here (fiber to my house - in the middle of the country) but as I said, cell phone coverage is spotty. This little puppy plugs in to my router and becomes a little cell phone tower right in my house. Covers the house and a fair amount of the outside really well. And is just about completely transparent when set up. So I've gone from no bars to 4 bars of reception in my office, and my clients no longer have to put up with being bounced to Google Voice almost all the time.
Happy Steve.
