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Posted on 11/19/2010 5:43:22 PM PST by Swordmaker
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I believe Apple was so foolish in keeping their iPhone restricted to AT&T networks. Why restrict yourself in such a way? I know I would have bought one, but AT&T isn’t available in my area. I’m SURE I’m not the only one.
I suspect Apple’s suppliers were just able to meet demand of the ATT signups...
Foolish had NOTHING to do with it. Apple offered the iPhone to Verizon first but Verizon want the iPhone to be ala carted to death, wanting to charge for each and every "extra service" as they were already doing on their other phones, and refused to make the network changes necessary for things like visual voice mail to work... Cingular Wireless was willing to present the iPhone as a package and to make the changes... in exchange for a period of exclusivity in the US market. They were the ONLY carrier willing to do it. Cingular was bought by SBCGlobal... which then changed it's name to AT&T before the iPhone was released. The rest said "No Way." The "rest" in the USA were left waiting in the dust of the success of the iPhone... including Verizon and T-Mobile.
It has taken THREE years for an iPhone "wanna be" system, Android, to come close to offering on those other carriers what the iPhone has been offering. According to this, one-third of the Android and RIM purchasers would have preferred to have purchased an iPhone, if they could have. . . I bet it would have been higher, We shall see in January when the exclusivity to AT&T ends... and Verizon finally gets the iPhone.
Motorola Droid.... not so much. Can’t wait till iPhone comes to Verizon.
lol I'm one of those. I have a Blackberry. It was the best thing I could get around here at the time. I would LOVE to have an iPhone. The BB has been good for what I need it for though. I pretty much just use the phone for voice, an occasional email/browsing session, and a quick pic if I need it. I recently purchased an iPad, and it has almost replaced my netbook entirely.
Count me among the “woulda if I coulda”
I’d be lost without my BB.
I also bought the Otter protective cover for it when I upgraded last year. A cop recommended it.
That’s an assumption right there, that Verizon would get the iPhone once the exclusivity agreement ended. More likely T-Mobile will get the iPhone as their networks are compatible with current technology.
The original iPhone works on GSM wireless networks. AT&T and t-Mobile use GSM. This “new” Verizon iPhone will use CDMA which is not compatible with GSM. Sprint, Verizon and USCellular are CDMA networks.
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So the new iPhones will work on US Cellular networks? I might finally be able to get one then! US Cellular is my only option for cell service.
I’ve seen an iPhone in an Otterbox Defender that came back from two tours in Iraq. The plastic screen cover was worn to a dull haze by the sand, but the phone inside was fine.
It won’t protect against full immersion, but it’ll stand up to just about anything else. The downside is that it’s huge.
There are a few jailbroken iPhones on T Mobile already.
One important thing to note: International wireless is almost always GSM, so CDMA phones probably will not work when you are on vacation or business overseas, while GSM phones will.
Why not just have one wireless type that every carrier can use? It worked extremely well for computers using 802.11(Ethernet).
You must be too young to remember Arcnet and Token-Ring. You may not remember Betamax either.
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