iPhone 5 multitasking on Verizon?

[kdarling]

1) SVDO did not require a tower upgrade. People are confusing it with 1X Advanced, which does.

2) On a lot of Verizon phones you can continue to send and receive texts while on a voice call. Not sure about the iPhone.

 

[kleinias]

I have a friend on VZ and he complains about not being able to receive texts and email when he's on the phone. He's in the real estate business and it's very hard on him because he'll miss tons of texts and emails cause he's on the phone. He's switching to ATT next month once his contract is up.

Your friend on Verizon complains about not being able to receive texts while he's on the phone? I'm no Verizon expert but I do know that I (this is true for anyone on Verizon) can send and receive text messages while on a call (with no WiFi). I'm sort of wondering why he would be complaining about this since it is not a limitation with Verizon. Very strange.

 

[aajeev]

ATT commerical

I personally find it funny that most of the ATT commerical that tries to target voice/data functionality is inside a building which most likely have wifi already. For example, the man who forgot his anniversary who was obviously in his office and I seriously doubt any company these days would operate without wifi. The second one was a woman winning bunch prize by playing some kind of phone game show, she is obviously at home and considering the fact that she has an iphone I can't help but to think she most likely have a laptop with a wireless router. I think ATT needs to put out better commercial...

 

[gdjsnyder]

2. I'm driving back to the airport from the sister's wedding with my other sister and her husband. He's using his Verizon phone for directions on the hour+ drive. We get to the airport and his dad calls, frantic because my brother in law's phone has been busy for the last hour and needed to get in touch with us.

Did you make this scenario up? If you're using data on a Verizon phone and a call comes, the data drops and the call comes through. So I don't know why the brother-in-laws phone was "busy" while he was using his Verizon phone for directions, but if a call had come in, he would have received it. Your first point makes total sense, and I agree with it. But this second point makes no sense at all.

 

[kdog005]

Over the 4 yeears of owning iPhones? Hundreds? Thousands? But apparently this only occurs with AT&T iPhone users, as far as I know I've never heard of an Verizon iPhone user who wanted to do so. Now if you want me to count the number of times I've seen verizon user attempt to use voice and data at the same time with disastrous results...number goes way up. I'm also curious about this omnipresent WiFi that you all seem to have; why not just use an iPod Touch and forget about paying a data fee?

I'll just give you two examples:

1. I'm in Seattle shopping with my gf over christmas and we split up. She calls to try and find the name of a book that her father was featured in. I talk to her while searching the internet, adjusting my search as she provides more information. 1 phone call instead of 5.

2. I'm driving back to the airport from the sister's wedding with my other sister and her husband. He's using his Verizon phone for directions on the hour+ drive. We get to the airport and his dad calls, frantic because my brother in law's phone has been busy for the last hour and needed to get in touch with us.

I wonder which carrier I'd rather be with....

if we sell 50 iPhone in a month, only 1 every asks about Voice + Data compatibility with the network. Majority of Verizon iPhone customer base is not using this. Additionally, it's a problem with his equipment if he can't receive calls while on the internet. All my calls ring through while using data just fine.

And Yes, Verizon's network DOES support SVDO because the Thunderbolt supports SVDO.

I have a friend on VZ and he complains about not being able to receive texts and email when he's on the phone. He's in the real estate business and it's very hard on him because he'll miss tons of texts and emails cause he's on the phone. He's switching to ATT next month once his contract is up.

Not being able to receive texts while on the phone has nothing to do with the situation in this thread. Again, could be an issue with his equipment as everybody else's texts come through while on a call just fine.

 

[~Ks383~]

if we sell 50 iPhone in a month, only 1 every asks about Voice + Data compatibility with the network. Majority of Verizon iPhone customer base is not using this.

Of course they are not. They can't. I would assume that most customers that you are selling the iPhones to are already Verizon customers and are already accustomed to the limitation. They would not ask about voice+data.

That being said, I only occasionally use the feature. It is very useful when I have had to use it but if AT&T service was awful in my area and I had to switch to Verizon, I could do without it.

 

[erayser]

I don't use data + voice often, but when I do... it's because something is urgent or important. Like talking to by boss, and she need info on our web based systems. I can talk to her by speaker phone, and browse our system to give her the info. Also, my boss could forward urgent email while I have her on speaker phone... but she can't... because she has a Verizon iPhone. LOL...

The other boss that data + voice comes in handy is my wife.

 

[Nuesoul]

I know for a fact that Verizon's 4glte does have svdo capability cuz of the Moto droid bionic (not on wifi). If a ****ing android phone can do it, the next iPhone BETTER do it. I have an iPhone 4s coming from a rooted Droid X and would be very dissatisfied if the next iPhone didn't do it.