SLOWER?? HAH! I guess you missed the part above where Verizon's 3G (yes not 2.75G) network is faster than At&t 's 3G in the real world where it counts, and often times by a lot! To quote Chris....
"AT&T's 3.6Mbps and 7.2Mbps deployments are significantly faster than EV-DO Rev. A: true, but only in theory. We're getting downlink speeds ranging from the low 100s -- yes, 100s -- to the high 800s in Chicago and New York; Chicago's got a trial 7.2Mbps network that's live, but even if we're not connected to it (hard to say), we should still be on 3.6. We seriously have no idea what AT&T's doing behind the scenes with these rollouts, but in urban areas, at least, they're not helping. At all."
With my Verizon Mobile Broadband card I regularly get around 1mbit/sec download speeds. The map ad campaign is going to lower the confidence of Verizon's customers?? What? Thats just a retarded thing to say.
Well if they are lies they are not Verizon's. The maps Verizon uses in the ads are from a 3rd party, independet research firm that created the maps based on their own testing.
Also how long ago was it that you had Verizon? If its more than 2 years then maybe things have changed since then... like maybe they put up new towers... I know shocking!!
Wha?!? Well you're an idiot... ill try and respond to what little sense I could make of that mess of a post.
ATT 2G and Verizon 2G are roughly the same speeds. Same with 3G for both carriers... simply as that. ATT is not even suing Verizon about what you are saying. They are just saying the ads are confusing... so ATT doesnt even agree with you.
Also where does ATT have HSUPA 7.2mps? Almost no where thats right.... and thats the theoretically speed, not the actual speed. No one is getting 7.2mps anywhere on ATTs network... no one.
I know you just got hired by ATT last week and they pumped your head full of bullshit to trick your customers, but dont regurgitate it here because it just makes you look like a damn fool.
Look there is not friggin reason a phone should not give you multitasking as an option. I have the Samsung i910. If I want to multitask I can... if I dont to save battery life... I can. Its up to me. Where as the iPhone you er... iDont have a choice.
Gotta say I think the marketing is genius... watching the football game with my fam tonight.. they knew what the ad was targeting... and they are definitely not geeks. This commercial is a TEASER... to get people asking themselves.. what is droid... they pop the link up and people go checking it out. There will be follow up commercials that reveal more and more until boom its all out in the open. Similar to many movie releases actually. Anyway Droid was the #1 googled item yesterday... so you tell me it didnt work.
@JJ - LTE will be different because it was built from the ground up for mobile data/phones etc. Wimax is a 802.11 standard that was jury rigged to work like a mobile network, what I mean by mobile is handoffs etc from tower to tower.
Not to mention LTE is going to be used by 80+ % of all worldwide mobile carriers... VZW broke away from the road it was on with Sprint by being the first to announce it was going with LTE along with Vodafone and China Mobile aka the rest of the World.
Sprint is still trying to figure out what to do with iDen. Fortunately for Sprint they can bail on Wimax at anytime since they basically just lease the Wimax network from Clearwire. I predict Sprint jumping to LTE and dumping Wimax in 2-3 years, if they stay in business that long. Lets just say they picked the wrong horse and they already know it...
My friend who works for Verizon said that all the newest 6.1 devices coming out, including the HTC TP2 will be 6.5 upgradeable. A lot of previous 5.0 and 6.0 devices on VZW were able to be upgraded to 6.1. Like my old Samsung i760.
Perik I cant argue with ya there... for your sake lets hope Sprint stays in business long enough. People are leaving Sprint in droves. Off topic, the iPhone has jumped the shark, its to the point where anyone I see with an iPhone I think "oh your one of those... had to have the hipster phone people" .... I dont even know why I want to get started down this road... where is my omnia 2 news?! now thats the phone i want...
Perik, yes everyone knows att's 3g coverage is terrible. But I hear all the time from friends, here in CA, about how they are not happy with coverage in many areas. Yes Sprints 3G coverage is pretty comparable to Verizon's, but what good is that if you do not get the voice coverage when you need it? Lets not even start with Sprints customer service, I know some former sprint customers who would tell you some horror stories. I am sure Verizon has plent of their own horror stories, but they are still rated much higher than Sprint in Consumer reports and JD Powers surveys, credit to T-Mobile as well for having good customer care, which is besides even lower prices is about all they have going for them.
Perik, Verizon does have unlimited messagnig for just $20, its called the select plan its $59.99 for unlim msg and 450 min. Next time actually do some research. Lets not forget that you are paying for a better network with Verizon. Sprint has a terrible network and terrible customer service... their only upside is they cost less... which is fine if you are ok with that.
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