No, it's obvious that the question is directed to those on the forum that do live in the US.
The new phones are expected to be global phones. So wrong again. The Verizon phone should work fine in GSM only countries.
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No, it's obvious that the question is directed to those on the forum that do live in the US.
The new phones are expected to be global phones. So wrong again. The Verizon phone should work fine in GSM only countries.
Whether or not you want GSM on overseas trip should not influence your choice here, because iPhone 5 is likely to support both mode.
and piss off everyone else with a US-only question.. great way to be all inclusive in teh interwebz.
I don't expect anything until it is released. That's why I find it funny with setting decisions based on what we expect to come out when we don't know anything/everything concrete. How about reserving your plans until Tuesday, then make your decisions.
So no, I'm not wrong. Like I said: for me, Jailbroken + unlocked + ATT = win.
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and piss off everyone else with a US-only question.. great way to be all inclusive in teh interwebz.
Get used to it, happens all day long every day. Unless you care to go telling everyone that opens a discussion that is carrier specific that they are being insensitve and should stop.
Sorry, but you are. Why not take your own advice and wait till Tuesday to make your decision?
Your decision may be correct for other reasons, but not for your uninformed statement about the next iPhone not working on a GSM network. That's an assumption that is most likely going to be proven incorrect.
Edit: And we have proof from the current CDMA iPhone to believe this. It's a very sound and logical conclusion.
Get used to it, happens all day long every day. Unless you care to go telling everyone that opens a discussion that is carrier specific that they are being insensitve and should stop.
All I'm saying is don't assume everyone here is from the USA, because they aren't.
Sorry, but you are. Why not take your own advice and wait till Tuesday to make your decision?
Your decision may be correct for other reasons, but not for your uninformed statement about the next iPhone not working on a GSM network. That's an assumption that is most likely going to be proven incorrect.
Who said I'm not waiting until Tuesday? You assumed I was. You also assume that I believe that the next iPhone wouldn't work on a GSM network. I never said that. All I said is that I am happy with taking my ATT JB/unlocked iPhone 3G, dropping another netowrk's sim card in it, and using it overseas, without incurring any of ATT's international roaming charges. Doing that on a straight CDMA network may only work in China, S. Korea, and possibly Japan when KDDI gets the phone. If so, lucky them. Otherwise for me, CDMA < GSM.
So I say again: for me, iPhone 3G + Jailbroken + unlocked + ATT = win.
BL.
I don't think the OP assumed everyone on the boards were from the U.S. I think the OP is from the U.S. and wants other U.S. citizens opinions on what they are doing if a certain scenario happens on Tuesday. Switching from one U.S. carrier to another U.S. carrier....I don't understand how someone outside of the U.S. would be able to answer this opinion-based question, so it's not insensitive, it's really about who can answer and who can't.
Deals are only good for a limited time & subject to change. Sprint will be increasing their prices shortly after they offer the iPhone. They are too small of a carrier to be able to bear the extra expense of selling iPhones without passing the cost to the consumer. There's been several articles about this over the last few months.
Who assumed that?
You're last line says you aren't waiting until Tuesday. You've already posted your decision.
And yes, you did say that.
And since this thread is about Verizon, you are saying the Verizon version won't work everywhere; that it will only be CDMA.
And you said it again here:
Why would you make such a statement unless you are denying that the Verizon phone is most likely a global phone?
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Kind of similar to the OP in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1236970/, using your logic he/she assumed everyone was from the UK? As previously mentioned, the OP is in the US and was directing the question to US members.
To stay on topic, I already switched to Verizon as soon as the iPhone was made available. Depending on what we hear Tuesday, I may sell my iPhone 4, otherwise I will keep my iPhone 4 until we see an LTE version on Verizon.
absolutely not. ATT lets you upgrade every year and is much faster (atleast on 3g). If the next phone is a global phone I wonder how long itll take people to try and bring their phone from one service to another and bitch when the former carrier wont unlock it.
The OP.
No-where in my post did I say that I was not waiting until Tuesday. Once again, you ASSUMED that I wasn't waiting. what you aren't getting is that I already have ATT as my provider, and have with my iPhone 3G for the past 3 years; hence Jailbroken and unlocked.
I suggest you re-read my post again.
BTW. Get your 'yours' right, and stop letting autocorrect do your typing for you.
Because VZW's CDMA-based iPhone doesn't mean jack on O2's network, 3's network, BT's network, Softbank's network, Telstra's network, Telus' network, Rogers' network, Optus' network, Vodafone's network, or any other network without serious international roaming charges; charges I could do without by simply dropping a new sim card into my GSM iPhone, and boom! I have service. Any attempt to do that with a CDMA iPhone gets you an iPod Touch, because it uses an ESN, instead of the sim.
Like I said before, KDDI, China Unicom, and the CDMA provider that is used in S. Korea (I believe it is SK Telecom) are currently the only other CDMA carriers with the iPhone outside of Verizon. So your CDMA iPhone MIGHT work with them, but from what I've read, their frequencies are NOT compatible with the VZW iPhone; so you're SOL.
But i digress. you can keep believing you have the world-phone and that I've already made up my mind. Actually, I'll grant you that; I've already made up my mind, and will stay with ATT; that way, I can enjoy my current iPhone anywhere I go, on any network I can take my phone to. Good luck doing that with Verizon. When the new ones come out, I'll re-evaluate.
BL.
Based on what? If he didn't mention Verizon, which clearly states the thread is directed at the US, then you might have an argument.
At this point I'm thinking you're just here to pick a fight.
I know you know this:
Nobody said the current Verizon iPhone would.
I have an AT&T iPhone, it is not a world-phone and I never claimed to have such a device.
What part of this argument are you missing? Why are you arguing about current phones? What part of Global iPhone do you not understand? Did you just jump on this board after a long time away without realizing the context of the threads currently on the board?
The new Verizon iPhone will work on all of those networks just like the new AT&T iPhone will. So your entire argument about staying on AT&T is moot.
I switched to Verizon, glad I did.. There's hardly any dead zones in my area, and it's way better than AT&T and T-Mobile in my area. When I had AT&T I got horrible service out here, then I switched to T-Mobile, still horrible service, then I finally tried Verizon and it's amazing!! Sprint is pretty good in my area, but haven't thought about going there... Only thing I'll miss is the ability to use my phone anywhere in the world... but I don't plan on traveling that often anymore, so I should be good