[DSGamer]

Wow. Maybe the writing on the wall.

I've been having friends tell me that they're going to voice mail at times that I have seemingly been available to take their calls. Since that kind of thing is heavily anecdotal I just shrugged it off. Well it happened again tonight at a really bad time and so when I got home I decided to test it. I called my G1 from my wife's phone 10 times. 4 of those times it went to voice mail with absolutely no notification on my G1. Incredible. So I called T-Mobile technical support. I was told that this was a known issue and had been a ticket in their system since the 16th of November. The workaround, until they fix it, is to turn off data synchronization.

Then I went online to see if I was going crazy/T-Mobile was going crazy. Apparently it's a problem with their network. Their Edge network can't carry data and voice at the same time. The 3G network can. However, I'm rarely on 3G.

So that's that. If I want to be receiving my emails as intended when I bought the phone I can count on 40% of my calls being dropped. If I want my phone to actually work like a phone I have to turn off data synchronization.

Does Sprint have this problem? I don't ever remember having trouble with this with my Palm Centro.