I had kind of hoped to be on a new phone before the hands-free law came down
Unfortunately, if the audio quality is poor with your current phone on your headset, it will probably be exactly the same on your new phone with that same headset. Audio quality problems, as far as I know, are almost never due to anything electronic, they're all about the physical transducers (and acoustics of the case, etc), which means it's your headset that's producing the bad audio when you're using the headset, and the phone has little or no say in the matter..
The wired headset that comes with the new phone might be better, but I definitely wouldn't count on it.. the bundled ones are usually as cheap as they can make them, because there's no profit in it..
And if they try to charge you for an activation fee when you're doing your automatic upgrade, that's just not acceptable. They're already getting a new contract lock-in out of the whole deal, which is why they're doing it. Trying to charge people on top of that for a routine part of the procedure is just greedy and, frankly, dishonest..
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Unfortunately, if the audio quality is poor with your current phone on your headset, it will probably be exactly the same on your new phone with that same headset. Audio quality problems, as far as I know, are almost never due to anything electronic, they're all about the physical transducers (and acoustics of the case, etc), which means it's your headset that's producing the bad audio when you're using the headset, and the phone has little or no say in the matter..
The wired headset that comes with the new phone might be better, but I definitely wouldn't count on it.. the bundled ones are usually as cheap as they can make them, because there's no profit in it..
And if they try to charge you for an activation fee when you're doing your automatic upgrade, that's just not acceptable. They're already getting a new contract lock-in out of the whole deal, which is why they're doing it. Trying to charge people on top of that for a routine part of the procedure is just greedy and, frankly, dishonest..