As an AT&T customer with an iPhone, I use data and voice whenever necessary. I don't need to "think" about it. "Oh I'm on a voice call, I can't look up the weather, or google something until I hang up." As a user of the world's best smartphone, you would assume that you CAN do that. Why cripple that experience with a network that wasn't built for this?
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aapl with its $60 billion in cash should contract a RF chip design group or chip house to get vz to step up - so both data and calls work together on the network - shame on you vz
It has already been done, it is called SVDO. Obviously it either: 1. Was not ready 2. Won't fit (one implementation is to use two cell radios).
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Good. Then we need not worry about who has a better data plan or a hotspot because wifi is everywhere and it's beautiful. Whew!
Good. Then we need not worry about who has a better data plan or a hotspot because wifi is everywhere and it's beautiful. Whew!
Staying with AT&T
For this very reason. Can do it all, I cant imagine an app shutting down to take a phone call or not being able to do something while in the middle of a call.
For this very reason. Can do it all, I cant imagine an app shutting down to take a phone call or not being able to do something while in the middle of a call.
At my company, we have an app that we use extensively during teleconferences. Allows us to view the presentations while we listen into the call. Since this uses both voice and data simultaneously, it won't work on Verizon. This will prevent many businesses who use similar apps from switching over. I know many other businesses in a similar position where they allow their remote sales force to pull realtime inventory while on with customers, etc.
Until Verizon has an iPhone that allows simultaneous voice and data, it will make many IT decision makers pause before they take functionality aware from their users and move from AT&T to Verizon.
Until Verizon has an iPhone that allows simultaneous voice and data, it will make many IT decision makers pause before they take functionality aware from their users and move from AT&T to Verizon.
I do this all the time, for example when I am in public transportation and somebody calls me asking what time I'll arrive. I'll use my train app to check while still talking.
I am in your boat. I need access to our CRM when I'm on the phone with a client to take down their information. No way should I have to go through the hassle of writing it down then entering it later.
It would if you used Skype or a similar VoIP app for voice.
That would save voice minutes, too.
Hmmm.... crappy service for those infrequent times I am talking and need to surf or solid connection all the time with no surfing while talking?
Bye AT&T (I am not going to miss all those dropped calls.). Here I come Verizon.
Bye AT&T (I am not going to miss all those dropped calls.). Here I come Verizon.
Wow, aren't you charming? Consider yourself added to my ignore list. I suggest you do the same for me instead of making multiple posts quoting the same thing over and over again.
Also, just to clear up your misunderstanding, I am not nor have I EVER stated I was a mod. I removed a part of your original statement from my quote. If you would have looked closer, you might have seen that. However, you seem to like jumping to conclusions, so I understand you may have missed that.
Have a nice day. I will be, as I won't be seeing your posts anymore
I think you fed a troll...
Ive only ever wanted that feature 4 times in two years. It would have been nice.
Though those 4 times were sitting on the toilet taking a **** while on speaker phone and wanting to browse the internet. Now that I look back, I could have turned on WiFi and been fine.
In all seriousness, its a cool feature when you really don't want to talk to someone. But no enough to make someone change carriers.
Though those 4 times were sitting on the toilet taking a **** while on speaker phone and wanting to browse the internet. Now that I look back, I could have turned on WiFi and been fine.
In all seriousness, its a cool feature when you really don't want to talk to someone. But no enough to make someone change carriers.
It's funny that current Verizon customers here have the mindset that since they can't do it, it obviously isn't a needed feature. Just keep telling yourself that and I'll gladly continue to talk and surf at the same time
All Verizon customers know haw to say is "At least I can make a call' They say it over and over and over. I'll stay where I am and keep my rollover minutes, my voice/data, my superior network speed and oh yeah, I haven't dropped a call in years.
All the time? Even when you're sitting in front of a computer? Do you take all of your calls on speakerphone? Isn't it distracting when you're driving?
Seems rude to be surfing instead of concentrating on the conversation. Why don't you just play Angry Birds during calls instead? Verizon needs to a better job of informing people that while voice/data is not possible, voice/wifi indeed is.
That thought never even occurred to me until this weekend, so now I just need to learn how to work the iPhone so it always uses Wi-Fi when I'm at home (or when I'm at a hotel with a good Wi-Fi signal) and avoid racking up data usage on Verizon (it's unlimited now but we all know that's not going to last.)
That thought never even occurred to me until this weekend, so now I just need to learn how to work the iPhone so it always uses Wi-Fi when I'm at home (or when I'm at a hotel with a good Wi-Fi signal) and avoid racking up data usage on Verizon (it's unlimited now but we all know that's not going to last.)
We all have to assume that the guy in the office has no wifi signal because you know... there are tons of offices, like that, with no wifi.
We all have to assume that the guy in the office has no wifi signal because you know... there are tons of offices, like that, with no wifi.
LOL, well my office has no wifi, BUT we do have an Optimum Online hotspot nearby that actually works.
Even then, my lifestyle just doesn't see a need for simultaneous voice/data. Since I'm hearing impaired, I avoid using voice as much as I can, so I'm almost exclusively a data user, and while Verizon's data stream can be slow at times, it is always consistent. AT&T would have driven me nuts in comparison. The proof in the pudding was when I was in Vegas for a conference, and while my Verizon data remained solid, all the AT&T iPhone users were banging their heads against the wall trying to get a connection. Heh.
oh yea, I've had this happen to me on several occasions and will be the primary reason why I wont be getting a Verizon phone!
I have calls drop on me daily in Houston on my AT&T iPhone. The service in my home varies from poor (the longer the call goes on the higher the likelihood the call will drop) to no connection. Dropped calls on just about any kind of phone is pretty common on just about any AT&T phone in Houston, soon to be the 3rd largest city in the country.
Different strokes for different folks ... I was in Vegas for a conference in October and didn't have any problems on AT&T, voice or data.
Yeah, wasn't that just... odd?
A better commercial would've had him on a train going home. He could've stayed on the phone with his wife while getting an online reservation and then tell her the restaurant name.