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Who's getting a Verizon iphone

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zamboni Grand Master

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I have Verizon and use a Samsung Omnia II, my brother is an AT&T Iphone 4 owner. This past week in Vegas, I had service 100% of the time, including in our hotel room. He had service 40-50% of the time, and about 5% of the time in the hotel room. I know this is more of a Verizon vs AT&T comparison, but he also mentioned he has had his Iphone sent in 4-5 times, and this is the Iphone 4 and less than a year old. I regret getting a Windows phone and not a Droid, but I will make due for my contract then get a Droid. I would have to pass on the Iphone for now

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Valv Grand Master

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I'd like to see how many people is buying the Iphone 4 from ATT customer thinking they can use it on Verizon....

Judging by the ads on [Note-from-admin-Please-don't-send-folks-there], looks like many people will be disappointed, we'll have cheap Iphones for sale in a week or 2.

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RuKiddingMe Mentor

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At this stage in the game, I hope anyone getting an iPhone holds out until June when the iPhone 5 is released.

Being on ATT I hope many ATT people leave in favor of the CDMA iPhone, maybe it would start freeing up some resources and help ATT get more focused on other OS's for the ATT redheaded step children aka non iPhone customers.

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mamohr686 Experienced

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I've been using my verizon Iphone 4 for a week now. All i can say is wow. From what I understand, the 4g network is much more spotty, and and the anticipated june date for the new version would be a stretch. I was using a palm centro on the verizon network before and I had a lot of dropped calls on the road. I haven't had a dropped call so far in rural, central MN and I've never had less than 3 bars of signal strength. A solid connection is more important to me, than internet speed. When i watch youtube vidoes they are very poor quality, but netflix on my iphone is very clear. Anyone know how to increase the picture quality on the youtube app? My contract was up over 3 months ago, so i got an email invite for the first shipment of phones. I got $50 off for the contract renewall and it was shipped direct from verizon. I would buy one again, but I hope I don't have the reliability issues that the AT&T iphone 4 customers have had.

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Matt C Proficient

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I was due for an 'upgrade' on Jan 26th. Really was thinking...oh, I'll just do the iphone.

But after a bit of research....went with a D x.

Coming from having multiple blackberry's on the VZ network, all I can say is WOW..Never a dropped call or missed txt traveling all around and a trip to Mexico.

With my new X, so far same excellent coverage.

What really turned me off from the apple was the apps and OS. Apple is all proprietary, you pay for most of your apps and its not very 'google' friendly.

Android, the only app I paid for so far was Navonics.

One down fall I have is e-mail. For work I am very e-mail heavy, which BB was excellent for! Android is not so buisness e-mail friendly....

I could go on and on about how happy I am with my droid....

So on the the Short length answer.....Don't do iPhone 4, IMO. Wait for the 5, or go Android.

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I got the new iPhone 4 for Att the day it came out. I really regret that decision now as I have to wait a year and a half before I can get onto Verizon. Att is great in Chicago but up in Winona and the surrounding areas I might as well not have a phone. Some of this is actually because of Verizon having been here first and buying up all the space for cell towers.

ATT's 3g is twice as fast but Verizons is everywhere. Luckily I have ATT charging me only for edge because they do no have the service where I live but I have to have some sort of plan with the phone.I have no issues with dropped calls when I am somewhere with service. But the second that I get outside of Winona I do not have any service for a long while.

I don't see what the big deal about Android having more free apps is. Besides Navionics and Super Monkey Ball I have yet to buy any apps, and I download and delete the majority of the apps right away anyways. They tend to be a waste of space to me excpet for the ones that I use daily.

Droid and iOS have the same amount of free apps, but the percentage of free apps is higher on droid because there are just so many fewer apps in general on that OS.

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One down fall I have is e-mail. For work I am very e-mail heavy, which BB was excellent for! Android is not so buisness e-mail friendly....

If you have an exchange server at work I would highly recommend TouchDown by Nitro desk, it extends email functions on your phone better then anything I have ever seen or used. Yes it's $20 but in the end more then worth it.

As for the VZW iPhone - it's not 4G/LTE it's only 3G - had Apple gone 4G/LTE it would have delayed the release date, and probably would have been knocking on the door of the iPhone 5 release date.

Actually in reading reports it doesn't sound like the iPhone 5 is going to be 4G for ATT or VZW, good old Steve Jobs and his infinite wisdom, people don't want 4G or larger screens the 3.5" so I'm not going to make them, I would think they are missing the game without a 4"-5" screen.

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Nick Kuhn Grand Master

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"4G is only available in 38 major market in the USA now. Verizon says it won't be nationwide until 2013. ["

Unless you are LimitOut, He has had perfectly working all the time 4G coverage months ago on sprint. But I still beg to differ

Sprint uses WiMAX, which is a different 4G technology than Verizon, which is using LTE. Eventually AT&T and T-Mobile will use LTE as well, but currently they are calling HSPA+ their 4G technology (even though it really is an advanced 3G technology).

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Sprint uses WiMAX, which is a different 4G technology than Verizon, which is using LTE. Eventually AT&T and T-Mobile will use LTE as well, but currently they are calling HSPA+ their 4G technology (even though it really is an advanced 3G technology).

I know that smile but someone else disagreed with me on that. However, I am on the same page with you cool

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Sprint uses WiMAX, which is a different 4G technology than Verizon, which is using LTE. Eventually AT&T and T-Mobile will use LTE as well, but currently they are calling HSPA+ their 4G technology (even though it really is an advanced 3G technology).

And now we all know why Sprint had a PREMIUM up charge on their "4G" service.

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LMITOUT Grand Master

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Are you still hee-hawing about this? For crying out loud give it up already. 4G, as advertised, is the next step up in speed and it IS available in many areas, regardless if it is up to a predetermined standard that some committee says it should be. You can sit on the sidelines and wait for it to be up to spec if you want to feel warm and fuzzy inside, but you'll probably be waiting a while.

HD TV has a standard too, yet it is loosely adhered to and most broadcasts aren't "up to spec" if you want to pick the fly stuff out of the pepper...

We could play semantics with everything but what good would that do?

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