“Although it is largely similar to the existing iPhone 4, developing a CDMA version of the iPhone was hardly a simple task, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller told Mobilized on Tuesday,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“Earlier, Apple and Verizon executives note[d] that the two companies have been talking about building a CDMA iPhone since 2008 and that the project involved months of testing that eventually involved more than 1,000 prototypes,” Fried reports. “‘A big part of it is the software, I’d say the biggest part,’ Schiller said. ‘It uses the hardware in different ways.'”
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Keeping everything snappy ain’t easy.
The lack of simultaneous voice and data use is the deal breaker for me. Hopefully the next iPhone will be 4G (LTE).
All the code for simultaneous voice and data usage had to be commented out.
I would switch to Verizon in a heartbeat as ATT is horrible, but the CDMA voice data deal is a real issue for me I wish it wasn’t.
How many times are you guys talking while browsing? I don’t think it is that often. I don’t think voice vs data won’t be a handycap.
I live in Nebraska. There are many parts that have zero ATT coverage. So I am a prime candidate for switching to the Verizon iPhone.
Nonetheless, I will wait to see how Verizon does and if simultaneous voice/date using is figures out. Plus I want to two companies to compete against each other on price and tethering features too.
The road kill is piling up now. What will come of Android and RIMM Blackberry (almost) smart phones? As there sales tanks, who will develop apps for each and every variation of those many little turds? Who would while real money can be made elsewhere!
Verizon sales people are confirming the end of unlimited data on new plans after FEB 1
My response to the current jack-knob band-wagoneer AT&T iphone users–these immortal words by the legendary RnB group, The Dramatics:
Hey you, get off my mountain
Hey you, get off my cloud
Hey you, get off my mountain
You’re just tryin’ to
Bring me down
And you laugh in my face
Make me feel like a clown
Baby I think, I better put you in your place
That kind of action I don’t need
(I don’t need that kind of action)
That kind of heartache I can’t use
(I can’t use that kind of heartache)
That kind of lovin’ I can do without
So go and play your games with someone new
Hey you, get off my mountain
(Hey you)
Hey you, get off my cloud
Hey you, get off my mountain
(Hey you)
You’re just tryin’
(You’re just tryin’ to)
You’re just tryin’ to
Bring me down
(Down)
That kind of action I don’t need
(I don’t need that kind of action)
And that kind of heartache I can’t use
(I can’t use that kind of heartache)
That kind of lovin’ I can do without
So go and play your games with someone new
Hey you, get off my mountain
(Hey you)
Hey you, get off my cloud
(Stay off of my cloud)
Hey you, get off my mountain
(Hey you)
You’re just tryin’
(You’re just tryin’ to)
Oh, you’re jus’ tryin’ to
Bring me down
You’re tryin’
You’re tryin’
The hotspot option would be easy to activate on the 3G/GSM iPhone. I know people who use it with jailbreak. Apple just decided not to activate it.
@BurningZeppelin,
It’s not just surfing the web it’s using any app that requires internet access. As I said in my post it is daily or almost daily.
@burning zep
Ok, someone calls and asks you about your availability to meet at a certain time, minimize call and open calendar and create an event, wait it syncs with MobileMe…. Can’t do that with the verizon iPhone.
Just one example.
When you can do both at the same time, you discover many other ways to use the ability.
…And none found in a Cupertino bar?
Btaylor
WTF does that mean? You lost me about 3 words in…
@ Backlash: “Ok, someone calls and asks you about your availability to meet at a certain time, minimize call and open calendar and create an event, wait it syncs with MobileMe…. Can’t do that with the verizon iPhone”
Well, you can still open the calendar, create the event, then after you hang up, it’ll sync back to MobileMe.
@ deepdish
I am also a Nebraskan. I have zero AT&T coverage where I live, so I’ve been waiting since June 2007 for this to finally happen.
While I can imagine some scenarios where voice and data at the same time would be very helpful, it’s a very small tradeoff for me to actually get the phone.
If I had the option of both, perhaps I’d go with AT&T (I’d have been with them for four years by now). But for the 93 million people out there on the Verizon network — most of whom don’t live in an LTE area anyway or who have never owned an LTE device — I think going two years on 3G without the data and voice at the same time is going to be no big deal.
It will give the Sascha Segans of the world something to bitch and moan about, but that’s about it.
@Backlash…thanks for the example. As for myself, I guess I am not that important because I never find myself in that situation. I either talk or I browse or I just use an internet app alone. I never need to do them simultaneously which is why it does not seem to be a big deal to me.
People still need to remember that this is a limitation of the cell network, not the iPhone.
If you’re connected to a WiFi network, you can still do voice and data. So, this is only an issue if you’re never near a WiFi hot spot.
@Backlash
Better example:
“What time is that movie playing?”
with ATT – Open APP and check.
with Verizon – “I dunno. I’ll find out and call you back.”
Expect mobile 3G Hotspot on AT&T any day now.
Maybe a dumb question, but what about visual voicemail? Has Verizon had a version of that on Android/Blackberry/etc. for awhile?
@AAPLguy
yeah you have a better example.
I’m sure there are much better examples also. If all of us AT&T users were to lose the ability today… there would be hundreds of uses that would come to light.
was just something i did yesterday.
oh speaking of mobileme/phone call at same time…
and yes, it was an emergency contact number needed.
I was nowhere near the office to get the paper version either…
I have a list of phone numbers/email/address that i store on mobile me, that i am NOT supposed to have on my personal phone. Dont really want either.. (work stuff) I have access to the paper version of them while i’m at work… but i’m not supposed to be able to get to them when i’m not at work. but i have a copy anyway.. made my job easier.
I entered them in numbers, and stored them on mobileme. I also accessed them yesterday while not in the office, while ON the phone, to give the contact info to the person needing them.
I was nowhere near the office to get the paper version either…
Verizon, let me call you back..
AT&T, sure, give me a sec here. done.
@michael
you sure if they are on wifi they will be able to do both?
@jay.
PLEASE be correct….
I only jailbreak for 2 things now… that being one.
if that were coming to AT&T, my reasons to jailbreak would probably be zero… The one thing i still love about my jailbreak, i could live without. (maybe)
I just want Apple to implement something similar…
(LockInfo if anyone cares to know)
@Buster.
its one of those, “yeah i dont see the reason i’d need that for”
Until you have the ability to do such things. then its “i love the ability to do that!”
I do use simultaneous voice and data. I have someone on the phone waiting for their email, then I open the email attachment and confirm what I see while on the phone. It is far more efficient being able to view an email attachment over the phone on real time rather than having to play phone or email tag. Works great for giving map directions over the phone too.
@BurningZeppelin – I use my iPhone’s speakerphone while accessing various online data daily. Not being able to do this would severely hamper by business dealing (or require me to lug around another device). Since I get great coverage with ATT, there is absolutely no reason I’d choose VZW over them.
Because CDMA is a crap standard that almost no one in the world uses. Go GSM and LTE already crappy Gayrizon!