Verizon would have been just as crushed by the 20M iphones on their service as ATT. Either way, it's sad and annoying for such a cool phone to have so many dropped calls.
ATT does not have "20M iphones" on their network, Verizons (as well as Sprints) CDMA-3.5G network is far superior to ATT's GSM-3G. How do you explain the 300M+ wireless broadband cards/USB modems running on Verizon and Sprint without a hitch? My company have 10 USB modems through Sprint, I can tell you when connected to a laptop those wireless modems pull a huge amount of data. To put is simple, Sprint and Verizons networks can handle huge amounts of bandwidth.
Forgot to add, several associates of mine have the iphone, most of the time they cannot get a 3G signal in certain parts of LA. If they among many cannot get a certain signal, how can anyone say it's the iphone? ATT had network issues long before the iphone came around.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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Verizon would have been just as crushed by the 20M iphones on their service as ATT. Either way, it's sad and annoying for such a cool phone to have so many dropped calls.
Possibly to begin with, but how many years has AT&T had the iphone? Plenty of time to ugrade their network to handle it. 30% drop rate is unheard of.
In that case, phones on multiple networks please!
Failing entirely to consider AT&T's service has been like this since long before the iPhone came out.
@Mike - Of course 30% drop rate is unheard of. Nobody can keep a call connected long enough to tell anybody about it!
How do you know their network would have been crushed? It may have, it may not have.. but simply saying it doesn't make it true.
@Sylvanus
ATT does not have "20M iphones" on their network, Verizons (as well as Sprints) CDMA-3.5G network is far superior to ATT's GSM-3G. How do you explain the 300M+ wireless broadband cards/USB modems running on Verizon and Sprint without a hitch? My company have 10 USB modems through Sprint, I can tell you when connected to a laptop those wireless modems pull a huge amount of data. To put is simple, Sprint and Verizons networks can handle huge amounts of bandwidth.
Forgot to add, several associates of mine have the iphone, most of the time they cannot get a 3G signal in certain parts of LA. If they among many cannot get a certain signal, how can anyone say it's the iphone? ATT had network issues long before the iphone came around.