Verizon's new I-phone 4

[Nicksfix]

I just got accepted to get one of these before the public release.

With iPhone 4 coming to America's most reliable network, there's never been a better time to upgrade your phone or add an additional line to your account.

Because we appreciate and value your loyalty, existing Verizon Wireless customers will have an exclusive online opportunity to purchase on a first-come, first-served basis before iPhone 4 is available to everyone else.

You'll soon receive updates and information on how to get iPhone 4 on Verizon. Stay tuned for more details.

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I'm going to be new to the I-phone thing,apps,all that kind of stuff,so this should be an adventure.

Anyone else getting one ?

 

[Eric Demory]

I find it an achievement for Verizon to steal the Iphone. John Oliver is right. AT&T does suck. People around my school have been talking about this, and it is a huge subject to them because they are phone-a-olics. Curse those weaklings.

 

[Legendary]

Wait a minute, you guys are only just getting the IPhone 4? WTF?

 

[Jondot]

Wait a minute, you guys are only just getting the IPhone 4? WTF?

Mmmmno, they're only just getting it on a network that isn't appalling.

Or so I get the impression anyway.

 

[Legendary]

Bah, come take a visit to Australia to find the true meaning of rubbish networking and national broadband. Hopefully the government follows through and does roll out the national broadband plan (fibre optics).

 

[Azuremen]

Bah, come take a visit to Australia to find the true meaning of rubbish networking and national broadband. Hopefully the government follows through and does roll out the national broadband plan (fibre optics).

But see, that is Australia. You guys deal with that in everything.

We actually get quality in the US

That aside, it is about time, now that the iPhone is getting over taken by the Android products on the market. I can't see the appeal of the iPhone anymore outside the standard Apple fanboy mindset..

 

[Duke]

I don't know why people complain so much about AT&T. I switched form Verizon a year ago to get an iPhone 3GS (nothing Verizon had would play nice with my Macs). My service is fine and we even had decent coverage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. I've never had a dropped call that I can remember - certainly no more than I had with Verizon.

 

[Robin]

I don't know the whole picture about the US iPhone network debacle but it seems to have taken an awfully long time for only a second network to get it. Also I'm curious as to why most say AT&T suck? surely if its still in business someone must be using it. The iPhone started life exclusive to '02' here in the UK but very quickly it came to all networks.

Bah, come take a visit to Australia to find the true meaning of rubbish networking and national broadband. Hopefully the government follows through and does roll out the national broadband plan (fibre optics).

Yeah I heard its pretty bad there, something like 2-3mbps is the average right? and people here complain about getting 10mb's and that's through Victorian cabling!

Robin.

 

[paulrobo]

i have had an ip hone 4 for around 3 months now, it was the first time i had used an apple item full stop and i deliberated long and hard over getting the i phone 4 or an android phone. I do not regret getting the i phone. I had have had one problem with it and apple replaced it straight away no messing around.
The apps are great, you can get an app for pretty much everything lol. I am sure you will enjoy your phone.
Only draw back in the uk is that to get the phone for a decent price then you have to sign up to a 24 month contract. I can see this bugging me in about 16-18 months when there will no dount be a "better" pohone that i want to get.

 

[Azuremen]

I don't know why people complain so much about AT&T. I switched form Verizon a year ago to get an iPhone 3GS (nothing Verizon had would play nice with my Macs). My service is fine and we even had decent coverage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. I've never had a dropped call that I can remember - certainly no more than I had with Verizon.

The issues with AT&T tend to manifest more so on the West Coast, where dropped calls, texts messages being delivered late (up to a week in some cases), and just weird service issues tend to be the normal. I believe there was a study at one point showing that 1 in 3 iPhone calls were being dropped in the major California cities.

Like I said, Android is surpassing iOS in terms of features and options, and the handsets are getting superior in hardware and quality rapidly. Apple has done what it always does, which is produce an initially superior and genuinely good product and then slowly add on features after they have market control. Their marketing machine allows to maintain customers by touting features as revolutionary when competitors have had it them for a bit - copy and paste, a more open app store, voice search, etc etc.

 

[Nicksfix]

it seems to have taken an awfully long time for only a second network to get it.

I even asked Verizon about this and all I got was a half baked answer about the technology factor that was involved. Hmmmm ..... (still getting one though).

I do think AT&T seen this coming,especially when rumors were emerging from the Verizon camp about the release of their I-phone.AT&T quickly started lowering prices,pushing their I-phone and locking in customers for the 2 year haul.

Who knows,let the I-phone war begin.

 

[Azuremen]

I don't know the whole picture about the US iPhone network debacle but it seems to have taken an awfully long time for only a second network to get it. Also I'm curious as to why most say AT&T suck? surely if its still in business someone must be using it. The iPhone started life exclusive to '02' here in the UK but very quickly it came to all networks.

It is called an exclusive contract. Apple and AT&T had one till just recently. This would explain the network lock-in.

 

[YSSMAN]

It would seem fair to assume that AT&T will have some sort of exclusivity with the iPhone5 come summertime for at least six months or more. They want to keep a hold of their iPhone customers, and presumably, it will be the only way to be able to do it. A lot of people I know are willing to pay the ETFs and head over to Verizon, even though the service differences are not all that great here in Michigan.

As an Android owner, on Sprint's network, all of this is nonsense to me. We left Verizon years ago because of spotty service and dropped calls, we haven't looked back since. Granted, their coverage now is much better than what it used to be, but even then, my data tends to pull down much more quickly than that of my friends (we won't even mention the fact that I have 4G, they don't). I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the iPhone4 will be very taxing on the current Verizon 3G band, especially in the larger cities across the country. Granted, just about anything is better than AT&T at this point...

Nevertheless, if you were on Verizon and your contract was about to go up, I would see little reason not to at least consider the iPhone4. Aside from the Drioid 2 and Droid X, Verizon's smartphone selections have withered significantly in the past year or so as Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile began to dive head first into Android product catalogs. Wind the clock forward to the summer, and you'd have to be a silly-billy to choose the iPhone4 over the Motorola Droid Bionic.

*shrugs*

I remember when I wanted an iPhone. Then I didn't. Ah well...

 

[Crash]

Now that the AT&T exclusive contract is over, I would imagine that the iPhone 5 will be released on both Verizon and AT&T simultaneously come summertime, rather than AT&T getting a short-term exclusive contract. Now that the floodgates are open, I don't think Apple will close them again with all the additional money that they can now make.

Having an iPhone and on the AT&T network myself, I actually don't really have that many issues with them. Seattle is very hilly itself, but I haven't had many problems with dropped calls recently; a couple years ago was a lot worse. Sure it still happens once in a while, but nothing terrible. Once there's mass iPhone use on the Verizon network, I think that people will start experiencing issues also. It probably won't be as bad as when AT&T first started, but that's because Verizon's had time to really beef up their network and learn from AT&T's blunders.

I think the whole Verizon vs. AT&T thing really depends on the city. Here, Verizon and AT&T I feel are pretty comparable. Compared to my old T-Mobile coverage though, AT&T kicks ass. T-Mobile was so horrible that I would walk into buildings in Downtown Seattle and have ZERO reception.