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Buying: iPhone 4 vs. iPhone 5 ?????
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Of course you are right. Nobody can prove it will be available on both networks simultaneously. But what is your argument for not doing this?
The carriers are just distributors. Apple makes the iPhone. Apple wants people to buy the new iPhone. The only difference between the phones is the communications chip. Making Verizon customers wait 6 months for the new model just gives AT&T an advantage they did not pay for.
Wait for the iPhone 4G/4GS/5 It will come out at the same time or with a delay of 2-3 weeks, you will regret buying the iPhone 4, it still has it's Glass back issues and the next one might have more storage for the same price and god knows what else, all I know is that you'll regret it
Maybe because iOs 4.x and time has crippled their aged iphone 3G to the point that it was painful to use on a daily basis. Maybe because they see a lot of value in recording day-to-day memories on a video camera they always have with them, and similarly take better pictures.
And maybe, because they're not in the least bit convinced that the iPhone 5 revision is going to add much of value (4G isn't going to be useful for a while yet until the network support is there, and the 4 isn't lacking in much else, frankly). The iPhone 6 may be better poised to take advantage of the faster networks when they're more widely deployed, and starting a new contract now means you're actually closer to upgrading naturally when the 6 is out instead of having to wait for the 7.
Seriously, the 4 solves pretty much all of the complaints I had with the previous generations. It's as responsive as I had always hoped they would be, the camera is good, battery life, etc, etc. If they never improved it from this point on, I'd honestly be ok with that, whereas I wouldn't have said that about the original, 3G, or 3GS. Now that AT&T has a sensible 1000 texting plan, that even solves the other gripe I had with them.
As another poster said, it's a phone that also has a lot of other useful functionality, and has matured in this evolution very, very well. But yeah, IT'S A PHONE. Buy it whenever you want it, enjoy it, and don't look back.
This, me, 100%. I'm actually thinking of picking up a s/h blackberry for cheap to tide me over until iPhone 5. I'd buy an iPhone 4, but this far down the track I think I'd rather wait and get the next model.
At the moment, my 3G can't play music and do anything else at the same time, I've lost the inclination to take a photo by the time the phone is ready to do it and checking into foursquare is at least a 3 minute proposition.
The proof is that here in the UK apple launched the 3GS on multiple carriers in december/January last year and then launched the iPhone 4 on ALL carriers simultaneously on the same day at the same time.
So if you go on previous form (which is what MR is mostly about) then the iPhone 5 (or whatever) should be released on AT&T & VZW at the same time
Why Verizon?
I see people talking about getting the iphone on verizon. Isnt that like getting a corvette with a 4 cylinder motor, or should I say an alienware computer with a 16 gig video card? Verizon is terrible you cant search ur phone for maps with verizon like att and they cap data long before att does. But hey Steve Jobs dont care as long as your buying his phone. Just dont understand why u buy a phone with great potential only to see it fizzle with a terrible network. oh yea its 4g LMAO.
I see people talking about getting the iphone on verizon. Isnt that like getting a corvette with a 4 cylinder motor, or should I say an alienware computer with a 16 gig video card? Verizon is terrible you cant search ur phone for maps with verizon like att and they cap data long before att does. But hey Steve Jobs dont care as long as your buying his phone. Just dont understand why u buy a phone with great potential only to see it fizzle with a terrible network. oh yea its 4g LMAO.