“In our tests in the greater Boston area, the Verizon phone cleared up the one nagging issue troubling users of the AT&T iPhone: connection strength and reliability,” Scot Finnie reports for Computerworld.
“Our testing showed that Verizon’s network delivered significantly stronger reception than AT&T,” Finnie reports. “In one example, we found that the Verizon iPhone was able to grab three bars in Computerworld’s gym, which is in the partially underground basement level of our office building. For the AT&T iPhone, this same room was a dead zone.”
Finnie reports, “Try as we might, Computerworld editors were unable to reveal anything like the “death grip” vulnerability on the Verizon iPhone that we are easily able to demonstrate on the AT&T iPhone… No matter what we did, the Verizon-based smartphone showed five bars and throughput was undiminished.”
Finnie reports, “The newest version of the iPhone 4 is slightly improved because of its antenna design, and you’re going to love the connection strength and reliability. If you’ve been hankering for an iPhone but have refused to go with AT&T — and don’t want to wait for the upcoming iPhone 5 — the Verizon iPhone 4 is the clear choice.”
Read more in the full article here.
Ok they death-gripped it. But did they place it in a lead-lined box and proceed to grab it with their buttocks? I mean, come on if you’re not going to do real world tests with the thing then how can we possibly trust your conclusions.
What I find funny is that everyone will say at&t has poor service and that it drops calls, etc, when in reality, its Apples device that caused it. Was it at&t who designed the iPhone 4? no. Was it at&t who designed the external antenna? no. All fingers should point at Apple, but no! dont blame the Apple gods. Blame at&t. This is where ignorance comes in and no one wants to do any research or use common sense. I used a 3GS, a Blackberry Torch (which gets the BEST service) and the Windows Phone 7. I have never had issues or all these dropped calls. I switched from my 3GS to the WP7 because I didnt want a bad piece of hardware in the iPhone 4. The WP7 has worked perfectly, the Torch has perfect signal all the time. All Im saying is people, do your research, dont believe the media. This is one of many things wrong with society among other things.
good. because we dont want you on Team Apple anyway.
In all honesty, there have been several times when my iPhone 3GS couldn’t get signal and my friend standing next to me with some other cell phone on AT&T did get good signal and could make calls.
Quite embarrassing to say the least.
Is it just me or did they not migrate everyone’s username and info to the new site yet?
@Hiram
I been trying to download the app for my iphone but its not on the App store
They aren’t being migrated. You need to re-register with WordPress – the new host. Do it before someone steals your name.
Someone already stole mine…
@Chris
I don’t recall the exact article but they explained why the dropped calls. Its from the continuous connecting and disconnecting to towers. Kind of like an energy saver thing I guess. They have mentioned that the issue has occured with blackberry’s as well but with the high volume of iPhones on the network it gets demolished. In a way it is both the fault of Apple and AT&T. Verizon is claiming no issue now… but AT&T didn’t have an issue to begin with either until their user base went through the roof.. Give it time and I’m sure Verizon will get the same problem if they get the same amount of users.
@Chris,
” I have never had issues or all these dropped calls. I switched from my 3GS to the WP7 because I didnt want a bad piece of hardware in the iPhone 4. The WP7 has worked perfectly, the Torch has perfect signal all the time. All Im saying is people, do your research, dont believe the media. This is one of many things wrong with society among other things.”
Yea, and Microsoft is a great company with wonderful products. 🙂
If I remember it correctly, the problem with iPhone 4 was nothing special, but when you had a weak signal, then covering the antenna caused problems. Strong signal, no issue. And yes, the covers helped some. Personally, I have never had a problem and recently AT&T has opened up new towers locally and even added a few with 3G.
I am totally happy. (and live in the boon docks )
Just a thought,
en
GSM and CDMA handle calls and calls that move from tower to tower very differently. CDMA is a soft handshake and the signal is shared among several towers at once, which helps to boost signal and maintain calls. GSM is a hard handshake and signals are restricted to a certain cell and then there is a hard swap. During the hard swap, if the two towers have many subscribers active (making calls or using data), GSM has a greater chance to drop a call. CDMA does not allow data and voice at the same time, one way it creates a soft swap.
GSM is better in some ways, CDMA in others… Apples and oranges, both fruit, both tasty, one you must peel to eat, the other you can choose to peel or eat the skin.
How many bars are showing means squat. Whether you lose a call or not should be the real measure.
MacDaily’s title and extract seems to indicate iPhone Verizon is the better phone.
On the other hand the full article is a more unbiased report.
ATT: 2x faster data rates; no practical or necessary death grip issue with ATT; a few (and important) large cities do have inferior connections in some location; ATT network has talk and data simultaneously. Result is ComputerWorld article favors ATT network as I read it.
Naughty, naughty MDN!
Way to knock your cred down a notch.