MacDailyNews Take: They probably want a touchscreen that works properly.
Maisto reports, “While a May 4 ChangeWave survey found Verizon Wireless subscribers to be the most satisfied in the mobile industry — with 49 percent calling themselves ‘very satisfied,’ compared to 35 percent of Sprint Nextel customers, 23 percent of T-Mobile customers and 23 percent from the AT&T crowd — more than half are interested in a smartphone that they currently don’t have access to.”
“Among the combined Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile subscribers surveyed, 49 percent said they’d be ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ likely to buy an iPhone, should one become available on those networks,” Maisto reports. “Among Verizon customers alone, that figure rose to 53 percent. ‘In sum, the survey results show an unprecedented level of pent-up demand for the iPhone among Verizon subscribers,’ states the report. ‘If Verizon were ever to offer the iPhone, the evidence points to it having a profound and likely transformational impact on the industry.'”
Full article here.
I know more than one person that would eat the cost on their current subsidy, and pony up the cash for a Verizon iPhone.
I would not leave Sprint for the iPhone, but I do suffer from iPhone jealousy and would get one on Sprint as soon as I could!
I just gave up waiting and bought the Incredible. Hopefully it lives up to the hype.
I’m with AT&&;T and I have iPhone envy, since I’m unwilling to waste $30 a month on an unuseful data plan. I’d pay full price for the iPhone to avoid the $30 per month drain.
ATT reception is bad where I live. Otherwise, I would have gone for an iPhone. I like Verizon ok but I sure wish they would get the iPhone so I could get rid of this Motorola pos that I have now. C’mon Verizon, get your s#*t together!
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
I dropped both a Verizon land line and mobile account recently to offset the cost of the iPhone with an AT&T;plan. Kept Verizon FIOS (internet only), tho. Could be enticed back to Verizon with a FIOS/iPhone bundle that lowers my costs.
For ATT sufferers:
MicroCell just solved 2 years of zero bars. From zero to five delicious bars of 3G goodness.
It shoulda’ been free. It isn’t. I paid.
Lovin’ it.
The Incredible. Whats next?
“The Supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus”!
02, how does it affect your browsing speed? it uses your broadband bandwidth to route phone calls, right?
As I’ve said before, the only thing keeping iPhone from total U.S. domination is the ATT exclusivity. Apple’s competitors fear the day when that exclusivity goes away.
And in addition to the exclusivity arrangement itself (what ATT pays extra to have it), there must be some other reason Apple wants to artificially limit iPhone sales. Perhaps Apple wants Verizon to roll out its 4G network first. Maybe Apple wants to offer new services, capabilities, and capacity through that new NC data center, before doubling the iPhone’s potential customer base. At some point, there will be a huge surge in iPhone sales.
one good reason iPhone is not on V is that iPhone sales are growing about as fast as apple can handle without V.
Well I’ll be damned. I just read an article that says a legal document has surfaced that proves Apple and ATT do in fact have a 5-year exclusive agreement.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/05/10/discovered.docs.show.us.iphone.may.have.5yr.deal/
@ Eric24601
how does it affect your browsing speed? it uses your broadband bandwidth to route phone calls, right?
Browsing speed unaffected. I’ve got a 12mb connection and it still screams. I don’t think voice takes up much data though.
Yes, it uses your bandwidth to route calls—and—it also uses your cell minutes. (lame) But – if you have an unlimited plan anyway, like I do, that doesn’t matter at all.
Highly recommended. Calls are clear, no echo. Always on, very reliable. Just canceled lane line.
I’ll shut up. Sounding like an ATT spokesperson.
Let me reiterate “this shoulda been free ATT!”
I know many, many people who would jump at an iPhone if it were available on Verizon. As soon as Apple makes the iPhone for Verizon, Apple will double its smart phone sales.
Agreed with bizlaw. I’d be first in line.
Verizon people suffer from iPhone envy?!…
Simple cure, take the little red pill and wait 15 minutes!
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I’m an AT&T;client iPhone and IPad user and envious of Verizon customers or rather their phone service. I’m really suffering down here with constant dropped calls and data as slow as the sea turtles.
Okay. On another thread today, TheOtherSteve wrote this:
“Let’s face it, even the new OS 4 that is coming out this summer will still be way behind Android 2.1 plus Sense. Sadly, it won’t offer near the features you can get by jailbreaking the iPhone. Apple has fallen far behind in the smart phone race just like they did before with the Mac and Apple II computers.”
Can anyone who follows this explain in what ways Android 2.1 is so much more advanced? A friend of mine has a Droid, and frankly, it sucks. It’s not intuitive to use, it’s not easy to get stuff on and off of it, battery life is horrible because of background apps, etc.
What’s so advanced about Android that I’m not seeing here?
@aka Christian check this out.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/05/01/android-2-2-to-do-things-we-assumed-it-already-did/
I know a few people on Verizon (myself included) who really want an iPhone.
What’s odd is that they have all told me that Verizon people will tell them the iPhone will be available thru Verizon… sometime in the not-too-distant future.
This summer… this fall… the end of the year. Sometime soon.
Interestingly, everyone that’s told me this has been saying it for about a year or so.
I’ve never heard a Verizon rep say anything, but then I’ve never asked any of them, either. And don’t intend to… I wouldn’t believe them anyway.
I just don’t see Verizon giving up the kind of control they have over the phones they sell.
Nor do I see Apple giving up any control over the iPhone.
Unstoppable force… meet immovable object.