Verizon or AT&T? Buy both and return one within 14 days

[rudyo]

Is anyone considering doing this?
I don't want to abuse apple's generous return policy, but given the severe lack of verifiable information from Verizon on cost, activation fees, etc, it seems like the best way to go. Buy both, activate and then do our own tests.

I don't think any of the first reviews have done a side by side comparison.

I did hear some rumors that surmised that both devices MAY be identical inside, and if hacked/jailbroken it MAY be possible at some point to flash the hardware to work on the other carrier. Any truth to this or is this just a pipe dream?

Thoughts?

 

[wingnut8]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Well you couldn't use the Verizon one with AT&T because it doesn't have a sim card slot.

 

[alust2013]

Unless they have both GSM and CDMA antennas, they won't be interchangeable.

 

[rudyo]

How quick will we see an iFixit teardown to know for sure what is inside?

 

[Chupa Chupa]

I did hear some rumors that surmised that both devices MAY be identical inside, and if hacked/jailbroken it MAY be possible at some point to flash the hardware to work on the other carrier. Any truth to this or is this just a pipe dream?

Thoughts?

I doubt they are identical inside b/c the VZW one is 6 grams heavier than the ATT model per Apple's iPad 2 tech specs.