@(Unverified) Indeed, and I've seen an equal number of contradictory reports, suggesting that AT&T's LTE network will in fact encompass the bulk of its current EDGE network, whereas Verizon's, regardless of when they started working on it, may not even be as large as its current 3G network. And that's leaving aside the issue of whether or not this will even matter, considering that the two may likely end up having some degree of roaming cross-compatibility.

@jupigare Yes, iPhone customers get lots of dropped calls. That's because the cell radio Apple uses in the iPhone is crap. I've got a BlackBerry Bold 9000 on AT&T, and I almost always have between one and three more bars than my girlfriend's iPhone. Yet all the nitwit Engadget posters let Apple off the hook for it and blame it on the network.

All of the people saying AT&T should build more 3G towers are idiots. Why would they do that rather than focusing on LTE? Sure, they'll spend the next year or two expanding 3G coverage, and then be behind again when LTE rolls out. Genius.

If AT&T is putting as much effort into their LTE rollout as it seems they are, then in a couple of years Verizon's data service advantage all but disappears.

On a related note, it continues to amaze me how people blame the iPhone's dropped call rate on AT&T and not the iPhone's substandard voice radio. That phone will drop calls on any network until Apple decides to improve it.

@(Unverified) I do it rather frequently, actually.

@Farmboy Shhhh. Engadget is for AT&T-bashing only. We don't put facts into context around here.

@JMichels My nuvi takes literally three seconds to lock on once I pull up the map, so long as it's in the same place it was when I last turned it off (which it pretty much always is, since I only use it in the car). So no, they don't all take forever to get a signal.

@(Unverified) Why do you care about battery life? How often do you actually use your PND off the cradle? I find it hard to believe anyone actually cares that much about "real bends in roads" either; it's not like slightly jagged turns in any way cause confusion about what the turn is going to be like, and besides: higher res maps mean larger maps mean longer loading times.

My store sold a record number of PNDs this past Black Friday, so as much as Engadget is falling over itself to take every opportunity to declare the market for them dead, I just don't think that's in line with reality.

Being angry about other people's buying decisions is awesome. Good luck with it.

I can say that I actually have used my AT&T BlackBerry to jump on the web and check something out for a friend who was on the voice line. It can be useful, and if Verizon phones can't do it, that is in fact a negative tick in the feature comparison war. I mean, why can't they do that?