What is the big deal with Verizon iPhone 4?

[bergmef]

True it might not have been the biggest, but it did increase it significantly.

I always chuckle at that slide when someone posts it. If it showed how much data on the left, then I would be interested to see it. Those numbers mean nothing since there is no unit attached. And now that I think about it, they charge per megabit of data the users use, can't someone write a program so we can see the numbers? Vega said the magority of users use less than 500M in a speech last year. Can't they add it up and put it on the slide? I know I'm a math weenie/engineer, but come on, that is all PR. My bandwith at home last night increased 3,000,000,000 (I think the movie was 3Gb in size) percent and fios had no problem handling it. That said, we watched a movie on the apple tv and had to download it where as the night before I read a book. I want to see numbers ... from all of them. I saw the report that verizon handled the most data ... lets see. I want to see their numbers against everyone elses. Then also break it down to smatphones/ipads vs laptop cards. I'm guessing verizon is a good bit ahead in laptop cards but I want to see phone data on all carriers.

Also, in quarter 2 2006, how many smartphones where out there? I know laptop cards were, I had one. But no iphone and since most copied the iphone they should have been after the iphone. How much data was being pushed in 2006.

Oh well, I'm going to increase my coffee consumption 100 percent (get anther cup)

 

[Aatos.1]

Yes but most Americans are not world travelers and don't need GSM.

This may be true for the young people but for those out of college in professional roles, business men & women, many of us travel internationally quite frequently. Working for Fortune 500 companies especially, we live & work in a global environment. GSM is a must.

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

This may be true for the young people but for those out of college in professional roles, business men & women, many of us travel internationally quite frequently. Working for Fortune 500 companies especially, we live & work in a global environment. GSM is a must.

While I don't disagree, Verizon has been selling "World" phones for some time now from RIM and others. What makes everyone so certain that they won't offer a similar "world" version of the iPhone as well? It just makes sense from a product development perspective.

 

[fortunecookie]

Because it means more money for Stevey.

 

[chris975d]

While I don't disagree, Verizon has been selling "World" phones for some time now from RIM and others. What makes everyone so certain that they won't offer a similar "world" version of the iPhone as well? It just makes sense from a product development perspective.

I would think a "world edition" would be the easiest (and best) thing for Apple to offer. The latest Motorola Droid phone (the Droid 2 Global) from Verizon supports all worldwide GSM/HSPA bands (except T-Mobile's US AWS band) as well as CDMA bands. It will work with overseas GSM 3G bands, and obviously Verizon's CDMA bands here in the states. It will also actually work on AT&T's US 3G bands, but this feature is purposely blocked by Verizon so that AT&T customers can't buy it and use it on At&T's network here. This chip would be the perfect chip for Apple to use, as it would allow Verizon's iPhone to use their CDMA network here in the States, and use GSM networks overseas (for world travelers).

 

[Namji]

This may be true for the young people but for those out of college in professional roles, business men & women, many of us travel internationally quite frequently. Working for Fortune 500 companies especially, we live & work in a global environment. GSM is a must.

Everyone forgets that a Blackberry is the number one device for business professionals.. For "MOST" frequent world business travelers Blackberry phones are used.
But it seems that all the verizon iphone nay sayers are just grasping at straws now with Verizon customers can't use voice/data at the same time, can't use the phone in other countries....since yesterday's big news of a high possibility of a Verizon iphone release coming in the next several days..

I say to them give it a rest and and get ready to eat your own words...

 

[Devnor]

Hopefully it means the hoards of AT&T haters will run to Verizon only to bog down their network

 

[mcdj]

AT&T's reliability/coverage is garbage in NYC and throughout the northeast. That said, I would only get a Verizon iPhone if it met the following conditions…

4G LTE

CDMA/GSM

Zero Verizon branding anywhere in the OS.

Verizon offsets my ETF via subsidization of the iPhone's price or a lower monthly rate.

 

[w00master]

AT&T's reliability/coverage is garbage in NYC and throughout the northeast. That said, I would only get a Verizon iPhone if it met the following conditions…

4G LTE

Not gonna happen. In fact, I bet even iPhone 5 won't even be LTE compatible.

CDMA/GSM

I could see this.

Zero Verizon branding anywhere in the OS.

Probably

Verizon offsets my ETF via subsidization of the iPhone's price or a lower monthly rate.

Riiiight. Not gonna happen.

w00master

 

[icyfire]

Hopefully it means the hoards of AT&T haters will run to Verizon only to bog down their network

And we will also get to see how AT&T's network still sucks after people leave to Verizon. But of course, I'm sure the AT&T apologists will claim some other sob story reason for AT&T's lackluster performance (maybe they'll start blaming the iPad 2 or perhaps the Android phones that will soon be released on AT&T).

I used the iPhone 4 for a week over the past summer and I think I dropped more calls during that week than my entire 10 years on Verizon. And this was in densely populated Central NJ, not the boonies.

 

[GolpherZX]

The biggest thing that could feed the fire for a LTE/CDMA device is the Qualcomm Gobi chip. Qualcomm is the primary manufacturer of CDMA chipsets, and earlier in 2010 (or even before then) decided that they would choose the LTE path for future cellular chipsets. The Gobi chip is specifically setup to allow multiple radios. It will be interesting to see how quickly Apple jumps on board with LTE. Dual antennas aren't new in the market, just see how quickly everyone at CES is jumping on board with them.