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No, fireman, I am NOT “making it all up.” Here is a map comparing the 3G roll-out at the end of 2006 between Verizon and AT&T.

I don't have any real interest in the history of Verizon or AT&Ts 3G roll-out at the end of 2006 nearly a year before the first I-phone was released. My PPC-6700 was a Sprint phone and they started their 3G roll-out before both Cingular/AT&T or Verizon. By the time that I purchased my 3G PPC-6700 3G was working well in both the Seattle Tacoma area and in Portland. Sprint was also a leader in 4G deployment. By the time the first I-phone came out they were already working on upgrading many markets to WiMax 4G.

From 2006 http://www.zdnet.com/article/sprint-nextel-announce-4g-data-network/

My brother told me that he was getting good 3G service on his laptop dongle from Verizon at most of the airports he stayed over at across the country. This was in 2007 before the first I-phone came out.

What you got with the first I-phone was a phone that would not do 3G, and had a processor that was approximately the same speed as the PPC-6700 that came out nearly 2 years before and not nearly as many user accessible features. What you got for $600 and a two year contract was a screen that was about half an inch bigger and a gimmicky new form of touch screen that sorry... is not nearly as precise as a resistive touch screen. Oh and you are suppose to be able to type on the screen that you are trying to look at? Yeah sure... I bet that was a non-bias survey.

I guess Apple is who we can blame for the last ten years of texts and posts with bizarre auto spell check errors. I don't doubt that on-screen keyboards are almost as usable as tiny blackberry keyboards etc. but the slide out keyboard that came on the PPC-6700 was vastly superior to the touch screen of the first I-phone. To me it was worth the extra thickness.

The truth is I am not that fond of multi-touch... sorry. I generally turn multi-touch and “tapping” off on any laptop touch pad that I am using. Even on a phone or tablet it often gets in the way and causes unusual behavior. If this type of sensor is so much more accurate then why do the drawing pads that I use for making selections and drawing in photoshop and other graphics and 3d modeling programs still use a stylus? From your description you would think that using a bunch of our fat all at the same time would be more accurate.

I generally turn multi-touch and “tapping” off on any laptop touch pad that I am using. Even on a phone or tablet it often gets in the way and causes unusual behavior.

You turn off multi-touch and tapping? That is not an option; it is built-in to the operating system and the device will not work without them. You obviously do not use what you are complaining about. . . You do make it up as you go along. . . a fact I have long suspected as you post your Idiocy in these replies. FACTS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU.

The multi-touch pads of Fingerworks TouchStream were not screens, fireman15, much to your surprise, as you thought they were. They were PADS to be used with desktop monitors. Do you see a screen on this TouchStream product? I certainly do not.

You go and Google things you just do not know anything about, certain I don't know what I am talking about and you'll stun me with your facturds. But you fail every time because I already know the history you don't know but think you are going to reveal with a flourish. You're just throwing anything you can think of against the wall, hoping it will stick, but I know one hell of a lot more about these facts than you do. . . and it won't work. Apple OWNS this technology and invented the way to combine this on a transparent overlaid capacitance on an LCD screen. That did NOT exist prior to Apple inventing it. . . and patenting it.

Your completely specious claim that resistance screens, which require a physical pressure to make a contact are more accurate than an electronic jump of an arc across an electrolytic barrier is ridiculous. If what you claim is true, where are all the oh-so-accurate resistance screens today? They are in the dustbin of technological history, replaced by the far better technology of capacitance grid screens which can now measure even the degree of pressure being applied.

Sprint was acting as a piggy-back carrier that rode on the back of Verizon's 3G network especially in the Western States. They leased much of their 3G bandwidth from Verizon by reciprocal roaming agreements.

Maps of 3G coverage circa 2008:

Oh, my your SPRINT 3G roll-out was far behind Verizon, I'd say less than one third of Verizon's coverage . . . which you claim was far ahead of Verizon way back before 2006. So much for your made-up claims. AT&T was admittedly behind everyone else but that was because they were expending their assets putting Ma Bell back together again. However, Sprint was able to leverage their agreements with Verizon all the way through 2016.