“All the other reviews you’ve seen are from journalists who received Verizon iPhones from either Verizon or Apple and didn’t have to pay for them. I had no such loaner, so had to do the honorable thing: I bought one and used it for a week now. It cost me about $250 because I already had a Verizon account,” Robert Scoble writes for Scobleizer.
Pros for Verizon:
1. No dropped calls
2. A wider coverage area in SF area
3. Demonstratably clearer voice quality
4. Data worked more places
5. Wifi hotspot out of the box.
Pros for AT&T:
1. You can use Voice and Data at same time on AT&T
2. International usage
3. Data speed
“So, which one wins? Well, for me, Verizon does,” Scoble writes. “Why? Because it more consistently worked with both data and voice. But with the caveat that you stay in the US and that you don’t care about using voice and data at the same time.”
Read more in the full article, including explanations for all of the pros listed above, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jen” for the heads up.]
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