"or power requirement Verizon put in place" - that helps them, hurts me as it also means - theoretically - I get delayed notifications, texts, emails, data sensitive type transmissions if it goes into 1x. I would not put it past Verizon to do something like this on purpose, but it does not help me. On top of that, not so sure how 1x would be better battery savings than 4G as one 'could' argue it takes more power consumption to try to find and deal with weak 1x signals than staying on solid 4G for the radios on the phone.
Now, barring this I see 2 issues potentially: 1) something is wrong with these phones or this phone if more report this issue and 2) weak signals in my area could play a role. I do not have the best signal strength here in my home (signal strength bars or data speeds) - despite the fact I live in a normal suburban area so I am the prototypical owner from their commercials. I say that as I think it should be better, they might argue otherwise. But, I don't want that to be the defacto reason Verizon would blame on my issue. This is why I reported it here to see if others have this issue as I never saw than in my last Samsung phone in same place, same area, same office, same setup - only change is the phone (and SIM of course).
