Samsung Galaxy S7, the Android based Samsung flagship, is the ReviewGist pick for the smartphone with best reception for the month of January 2017. The Samsung Galaxy S7 is a flawless upgrade over the previous flagship - Galaxy S6 and has support for Verizon's 850 MHz frequency band making it suited for catching better signal both in rural/remote and dense urban environments.
As far as the US is concerned, the best reception smartphones are without exception the Verizon ones. The reason being that Verizon uses CDMA technology which works predominantly on the 850 MHz frequency. Most other service providers predominantly operate around the slightly higher 900 MHz frequency. Smaller MHz frequency gives a better signal and is able to penetrate buildings and remote rural areas much more effectively. The other reason why 850MHz frequency works better is because it has been deployed for a much longer amount of time so has a much wider coverage.
T-Mobile use GSM technology which is largely utilized around the 900 MHz frequency and is mostly good only in bigger cities like Boston and New York and doesnt perform that well in rural areas.
However, note that Verizon uses CDMA technology which is not supported throughout the European union. If you need international roaming you are better off with some of the GSM phones with the best reception signal.
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250david
The Samsung Galaxy s6 does not belong anywhere near the top ten for phone reception. I have an orignal Moto X and a gen 2 Moto G all on the same network as my Samsung S6 and both Moto phones have usual phone and text service where the Samsung will do absolutely nothing. That being said a Samsung S5 will have better usable service than the S6, this seems to be due to the fact that Samsung created their own cell antenna for the S6 and it is just not as good as the one they had in the S5. Any newer Apple or moto phone gets better service on telus and bell networks in Canada. The Blackberries from the Z10 up also get better usable reception than the S6
steveinpollock
Matt Staker's Feb 2017 article is bogus. 250david is correct. I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy s6 and live in the Sierra foothills. My wife has Galaxy S5 which almost works here, but by S6 is an ornament, utterly useless as a phone here.
