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Verizon Media Event Today, iPhone Expected

iTravis said:
AT&T seems mad. . . and preparing for tomorrow. Lol

http://twitter.com/ATT

Am I the only one staying with AT&T?
People leaving the network might help us that's staying.
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linux2mac said:
Might be. I am sick of dropped calls and no bars in certain parts of my city and other cities I travel to. All my friends with Verizon rarely have dropped calls. AT&T is like Windows - buggy and unreliable.

If not for unlimited, I would have a $900 USD plus phone bill every month.
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I'm not planning on leaving AT&T. Great coverage where I am, and significantly cheaper than Verizon. Really looking forward to seeing what the companies do to compete with each other, though. Apple's about the only company that could actually spark some honest competition in this industry.
 
I've been happy with AT&T, overall. The only reason I'd switch is if Verizon has something really great to offer like a cheaper plan...
 
Kar98 said:
The hardware/software/personnel is already built for the voice and data network. SMS takes up virtually no bandwidth. It _is_ pure profit, and back in the day, they were in fact free to send and receive for that very reason.
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Why do you pay for cable? The cable lines, servers, personnel is already there.

You're paying for a service. That's the better way to look at SMS.
 
ThomasJL said:
AT&T should have gone out of business years ago. I blame Apple for giving them an extremely undeserved and unprecedented growth and profits.
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Because AT&T is the sinner among saints? Each of the four big US wireless carriers are jerks through and through, and their jerkery expands with the size of their network. In context, I don't see why AT&T deserves to go out of business...

ThomasJL said:
I think the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market, but I am glad Apple has lost market share to Android. Apple deserves losing market share to Android due to the fact that Apple greedily made AT&T its exclusive US carrier while Android was open to every carrier.
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You're pretty emotional about these things. It is business. If you consider it from that angle, it might make more sense. Verizon was approached, but they probably wanted to plaster their logo on the iPhone and control all manner of elements behind the device (e.g. music sales). They probably also wanted to limit certain features which competed with or potentially interfered with their ideals. This was status quo for them before the iPhone, and they still do much of this today.

AT&T was a good option for them in the United States. As a GSM provider, it helped architecturally for expansion outside the United States (it isn't Apple's style to make so many different versions of their device as other mobile phone makers do). As a large provider, they provided Apple with a good pool of users to address. By offering AT&T something in exchange (an exclusive agreement), Apple received increased leverage in the negotiation, allowing them to do things like request special advancements and considerations for their product (such as visual voicemail).

AT&T gave Apple the chance to chance the mobile phone industry, and the opportunity to define the iPhone as the game changer it is today. And now, shortly, we'll see a Verizon iPhone, free of all the BS they might have wanted to permanently affix into it back when smartphones looked like Blackberries.
 
Still have a year and a half left on my at&t contract. really just doesn't seem worth switching and I use the voice/data feature like 5 times a week. :D

I think a verizon iPhone will be good for one thing. More Apple converts :D
 
DakotaGuy said:
Calls always have priority on the Verizon CDMA network. If you are downloading a file and a call comes in the download will pause and you can talk. The minute you hang up the download will resume. You can also access anything you want on the phone except for updating the data.

I understand for some people having voice and data at the same time is more important then call reliability. I guess you will just have to weigh your options and pick the best carrier for you.
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You're confusing limitations with features and misrepresenting 3G. I have never seen a scenario where call quality has been impacted in some appreciable way by data usage. I also happen to use data while on a phone call with some frequency. As an aside, the voice quality of AT&T's network is not stellar by any means, but that's an independent issue.
 
Kar98 said:
I don't. People still have cable? And pay for it?
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I still have very basic cable and pay for it (only $5 extra on top of my internet plan). I've highly considered canning it and just watching everything online but I've yet to find a decent way to do so. I want all of my shows in one spot and I want to be able to watch some of them live.
 
DakotaGuy said:
Calls always have priority on the Verizon CDMA network. If you are downloading a file and a call comes in the download will pause and you can talk. The minute you hang up the download will resume. You can also access anything you want on the phone except for updating the data.

I understand for some people having voice and data at the same time is more important then call reliability. I guess you will just have to weigh your options and pick the best carrier for you.
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I could live with that.
 
I'm guessing I'm a minority but I am a Verizon customer, currently still use a dumbphone, very interested in the announcement... but, I think the current pricing for all smartphones is outrageous.

While everyone is so keyed up for "unlimited" data, presumably at a premium, folks like myself would like a sane data plan at a sane price. Choosing between 200MB and 5GB/unlimited really isn't. How about a 1-2GB plan for something along the lines of $10-15/mo.? 200MB should be $5-10 tops.
 
NKT said:
Ok then, why do you pay for cellular service at all? It should be free according to you. It's pure profit. :rolleyes:
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The wife wants it, and it chafes me greatly. I was fine with having a prepaid phone. $100 lasted me for a year and a half.
 
I'm guessing I'm a minority but I am a Verizon customer, currently still use a dumbphone, very interested in the announcement... but, I think the current pricing for all smartphones is outrageous.
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You're not in as much of a minority as you think. Up until now I've refused to get a smart phone out of protest of the ridiculous pricing schemes at every American cell phone company. You're paying at least $75/month/phone. It's outrageous. We should be able to have reasonable service for $40/month/phone.
 
For the whole data during calls thing, for me, on my Droid X on Verizon if a call comes in it will be overtop of any internet or data usage im doing. Meaning the call will come in and ring like normal and not be sent straight to voicemail like some have said.
 
NKT said:
You still paid for it ;)
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Yes, for what I actually used. Not for "oh you want a large screen, and a hardware keyboard? Why, that's a smaaaaaart phone, pay us $30 a month extra just for that!"
 
dpru said:
You're not in as much of a minority as you think. Up until now I've refused to get a smart phone out of protest of the ridiculous pricing schemes at every American cell phone company. You're paying at least $75/month/phone. It's outrageous. We should be able to have reasonable service for $40/month/phone.
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They could be cheaper, but we're also much cheaper than many other places around the world, and we do have to consider the size of our country and associated infrastructure issues in the United States.
 
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