I forgot to mention - a co-worker went to a local Verizon agent (you know, the mom and pop electronic dealers, not Verizon corporate stores or an Apple retail store), and since that dealer isn't authorized to sell the iPhone, told the co-worker and her husband that the iPhone wouldn't work at her farm house. My blackberry and earlier Verizon phones worked fine at her place as far as signal strength. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being within a mile of the tower to 1 being just about to lose signal and have a call drop, I would say her location would be about a 4 or 5. I figured the iPhone wouldn't be much worse or better at any particular location than any other Blackberry or Android phone. Verizon has great tower penetration in many rural areas of Kansas, including my area of Northern Kansas. Verizon inherited the towers when they bought Altel and Altel inherited them when they bought Kansas Cellular. No problem for me, I'll just go to a Verizon corporate store or order directly from Apple online. I realize Apple has to limit whom sells to control the buying experience and also to keep supply shortages from being any worse than they sometimes are, especially with new iOS device rollouts.
Joe On Jul 10, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Joe Sporleder wrote: > I've been trying to decide whether to go with a Verizon iPhone or forget > about the iPhone and save some money with a regional provider and an android > device and enjoy my many other products. My current Verizon Blackberry Curve > is on the fritz - something is causing it to randomly restart, and it is > becoming more frequent. I'm really leaning towards the iPhone and cutting > expenses elsewhere to accommodate Verizon's higher plan costs. > > I have to wait until August 8 if I want to pay the $199/$299 upgrade prices > for 16GB/32GB. Otherwise, it'd be the full price. I might be able to keep the > Blackberry alive until then. I'm not sure I can make it until September, when > the rumored iOS device updates are expected. iPhone 4S? iPhone 5? They don't > exist yet (at least to the public), and an unforeseen problem could cause > them to be delayed. > > The iPhone commercial that says if you don't have an iPhone, you don't have > an iPhone. I just don't think Android is there yet, if they ever will be, to > just making it all work together seamlessly. At least I'm grandfathered in to > the unlimited data plan if I stick with Verizon. It would be nice to see a > little more competitiveness with the data rates for the tiered plans. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
