It's the phone.....always has been.
I have had Cingular/AT&T service since 2002 and I had one dropped call in the 8 years before I got my iPhone 3G back in April. Since then that number has gone up.
It's not a coincidence.
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Verizon iPhone to Launch in January 2011?
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It's the phone.....always has been.
I have had Cingular/AT&T service since 2002 and I had one dropped call in the 8 years before I got my iPhone 3G back in April. Since then that number has gone up.
It's not a coincidence.
What are you talking about? I just saw Elvis at a Walmart parking lot loading his Tundra with 60lb bags of Purina Dog Food. I must say, He doesn't move like he used to.
Has AT&T possibly caused you to drop calls? Sure, they're not perfect and have been upgrading their network ever since. Is AT&T always at fault for you dropping your calls? Definitely not, if the past week shows anything. Even prior to the iPhone 4, people had said the iPhone might be a source of these dropped calls.
Yeah until it comes to metroPCS it will be Epic fail. What about cricket! What is going on at Apple. Why don't they care about making any money. When there is iPhone on every carrier in the world, I will start a new one and complain about it not having the iPhone!
After reading this:
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/verizon-we-rule-the-air-and-dont-need-no-iphone-20100628/
Gotta think the big V keeps putting its foot into its proverbial mouth. Thinking Mr. SJ won't like these type of corporate outbursts.
Hope it's true though-all you big red lovers can move on over leaving more of the precious bandwidth to me
WOW! That's one ugly phone.. That Droid X is a ugly phone, way to bulky...
Now, this is coming from a person who has had to deal with both networks. I am a meteorologist that now lives in Casper,WY. I was living in GA for many years and had the 3G Iphone. I absolutely LOVED my iphone. We had EDGE for a LONG time, and right before I got this job out here we got 3G where I was living. 3g network was VERY fast!! Kicked VZ AS*.... My speeds would be nearing the 2mb down and nearly 1mb up. Pretty dang good for Macon, GA. My friends "3g" speeds with VZ, in GA, were barely a 1mb down if he was lucky! Now, since there is NO native AT&T service in Casper, WY, I sold my iphone before I left and hopped on my mom's VZ family plan. I bought the MOTO Droid, (I know...partially my stupidity) and let me tell you it is NOTHING compared to the iphone. The camera is really good, but the OS is sluggish at times as well as it freezes. My iphone was never sluggish and it never froze! (Even Jailbroken) Now, Alltel is about to be replaced by AT&T here in Casper and I can't wait!! I can't wait to have my iphone again. These people out here, who have never had the choice, to get an iphone are in for a real treat. So, to my last point about the "networks". The 3g network out here is fairly slow. I get around .35mb to sometimes .70mb down. Hell edge is nearly that damn fast. So, IMO....VZ Network would STRUGGLE VERY much with iphones on there network. Hell I am getting rid of verizon when AT&T starts out here. So, hope that makes a little sense.
yay
Now the iPhone can paralyze TWO major data networks. Afterall, the iPhone's browser has been leading network bandwidth usage since it debuted. And that is with the LARGEST network nationwide. Now, with Verizon's network added, it can just double the amount of bandwidth and take even more mindshare.
Life's good.
Now the iPhone can paralyze TWO major data networks. Afterall, the iPhone's browser has been leading network bandwidth usage since it debuted. And that is with the LARGEST network nationwide. Now, with Verizon's network added, it can just double the amount of bandwidth and take even more mindshare.
Life's good.
There's already a solution. Someone just has to put it in their phone.
Yeah, they hate profit, after all.
While I would love nothing more than for Big Red to start carrying the iPhone ASAP, I don't think we have enough evidence yet, although I will say that Apple and Verizon's silence could be perceived as an indication of something.
Sure does seem like you've got a reason to hope this isn't true. You've just locked yourself up for another 2 years on AT&T. They didn't "generously" open up the upgrade window for tons of extra people for no reason. They know their exclusivity is going to end soon.
That's the thing about these "rumors". Yes, there have been plenty of them, but the fact is, eventually Verizon IS going to get the iPhone, and I think it's all but a certainty 2011 is the year. At some point it simply doesn't make financial sense for Apple to stay with one carrier, as they're allowing the competition to build a substantial base with all these other carriers.
This just isn't going to end, will it?!?!
It will ... when I have my iPhone 4.5 running on Verizon.
VoRA is not really possible. That whole story was really botched. If you want voice and data on a CDMA network it's called 1X advanced. Just google it. Or you can call it SVDO. That's what Qualcomm calls it anyway
The thing is that Verizon has not clammed up. There have been Verizon people jawing about the iPhone practically every month, including CEO Ivan Seidenberg as well as some utterly ridiculous sources (ad agencies working on Verizon iPhone campaigns, etc.).
This more than anything else indicates that there is no imminent deal. Apple's business partners clam up pretty tightly if there's a deal in the works.
I love VZW as much as the next guy. I'm currently with them and have a BB Storm, my contract is over in dec. I'm paying the $80 to get out of it so that I can go to ATT and get the iPhone 4. I'm sick of waiting on VZW to decide whether they want the iPhone or not that I'm not waiting until Jan. I also am probably in the minority on this but if I could buy a phone with no mins and save $40/mo I would, I make very very very few calls that ATTs terrible problem of dropping calls etc really isnt going to affect me. If people need me than they know to text me, I hate talking on the phone. Hopefully tomorrow when my ATT store gets another shipment I'll be able to say I own my first iPhone.
I still can't believe people stood in line for 6+ hours to get a phone they could have gotten two weeks later without having to wait in line at all. And to think I thought we were in a recession. Where do these people get their money from if they have jobs? The government?
Arrggg
All carriers suck. AT&T has issues. Verizon has issues. It really won't matter much. If you gain one advantage from some service, from one of the carriers, you'll loose another advantage.
Not really good news for the 1.7 million iPhone 4 buyers - they're locked in for a full two years.
You don't suppose AT&T knew this was coming and tried to get everyone locked up in a long term contract.
All carriers suck. AT&T has issues. Verizon has issues. It really won't matter much. If you gain one advantage from some service, from one of the carriers, you'll loose another advantage.
Are you aware that the majority of the world is on GSM and HSPA/HSUPA and that that the CDMA carriers of your neighbours to the north abandoned CDMA in favour of HSPA/HSUPA?
If (and that is a big if) Apple was going to create a phone that worked on CDMA networks, it would be a dual radio phone that supported both SIM based GSM HSPA/HSUPA networks as well as CDMA2000 and CDMA with a SIM.
There are some Asian markets which are still mainly on CDMA but not CDMA2000. Rather, they are on a variant that actually uses SIM cards called CSIM. I just don't see Apple producing a phone just for all of the CDMA markets let alone Verizon in the US especially this close following the launch of the iPhone 4 in so many countries.
Verizon is way too small and the number of subscribers that would buy an iPhone on Verizon is even smaller.
Not really good news for the 1.7 million iPhone 4 buyers - they're locked in for a full two years.
You don't suppose AT&T knew this was coming and tried to get everyone locked up in a long term contract.
No one is locked into anything. You have 30 days to return your iPhone... If you can live with your OLD iPhone, or a different phone until Verizon comes out, you'll be set. Otherwise, suck it up and enjoy 2 more years of HELL.