What’s your iPhone strategy with Verizon out of the game?

I am afraid that if Verizon were to add the IPhone their capacity would tank with all of the new customers. I think that they are smart to slowly add customers via migration from AT&T rather than have a tidal wave of new customers. I have the HTC Incredible and have been very satisfied, but since I don’t have an IPhone maybe I don’t know what I am missing.

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I’ve had Sprint service for almost 10 years now with various Palm and WinMo handsets and have been satisfied with the service. That said, I recently added an iPhone 4 to my stable of gadgets because I love the apps that are available for the iPhone. My productivity has improved significantly now that I’ve gotten the iPhone. I can watch NetFlix on the bus, use SlingPlayer to catch the evening news on the ride home, check my bank accounts with Chase, Citibank or Bank of America apps, check my 401k with the Fidelity app, edit and transfer docs with ReaddleDocs, DocsToGo or iAnnotate, take notes with NoteTaker or FastFinga, access my work email, contacts and calendar from my company’s Exchange server, read the news with from any number of news outlets, maintain all my passwords with SplashID, power up my computers remotely with wake on lan, remote to my PC with LogMeIn, the list goes on and on….

Can someone please explain to me how this makes my iPhone merely a fashion statement? And more specifically, what EXACTLY Android “DOES” that my iPhone cannot? (besides live wallpapers and widgets which are purely cosmetic). Don’t get me wrong, I know that Android is gaining apps everyday but there are still are not as many apps currently and lots of the Android apps lack the polish that the iOS apps demonstrate. In addition, many Android owners report less than stellar battery life with their phones.

Conversely, although I was skeptical when I signed up, I have not had a problem with AT&T service yet and my battery life with iPhone 4 has been better than expected. I can easily go an entire day without charging when my Android laden colleagues are running to plug into the nearest outlet. And I’m continually finding new apps for my iPhone that are fun and/or useful.

I appreciate the competition that Android brings to the table, but I think that taking shots at the iPhone with less than complete information is just wrong. To each his own, I like my iPhone. I may add an Android phone to my stable one day so I can try it out. In any event, making blanket comments about the iPhone being just a fashion statement or saying that Android “does” more than an iPhone can without giving any specific examples is just regurgitating marketing hype and demonstrates sheer ignorance of the facts.

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I’ve been waiting for the iphone to come to verizon for 2 years—with this news, I’m dumping verizon and going with ATT and the Iphone–the best phone on the market.

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to CLEE everything your iPhone does, so does the Andriod OS. I have slingbox, docs to go, scan2pdf, can schedule my directv, check my finanical accounts, pay my bills, sync my mail and calendars with my personal and business accounts, make reservations, use ms ofc suites, use a global translator, use it for dictation, video streaming plus much more. In addition, if I so choose I can create, publish and make money off of apps. I have a co-worker who has and iphone and I the Android OS. Each week or so I get a challenge to see if my OS can do what the iphone can, so far I’ve been able to find an Andriod app to meet the challenge. I guess its just a preference.

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I have used both Verizon and AT&T and AT&T has better reception, better customer relations. Have I had dropped calls? Yes. And so have my Verizon using friends. Have I had problems inside buildings. Yes and so have my Verizon using friends. I have a signal booster from AT&T and now five bars. My Verizon using friends have know such option. AT&T has better price structure for my needs. Verizon has soaked me in the past and soaks my friends. So I doubt the sanity of paying for inconsistent service and clueless custormer service.

IPhone works. Consistently. Synchs flawlessy. I know DROID users and while they brag, they are also baffled about how inconsistent their phones are.

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To Droid Does,

Thank you for finally telling us what Android actually “does”.

You’re correct. It is mostly just preference. Their capabilities are largely the same. The Android “does” a lot of the same things the iPhone “does”. So where are all the things the Droid allegedly “does” that the iPhone doesn’t? If you’re saying that both phones “does” a lot then we’re in agreement.

My point is that Android fans that keep saying that Android “does” so much more than the iPhone or that people who buy the iPhone are just doing so because it’s a fashion statement are not cognizant of the facts. iPhone users are far from technological airheads who buy a phone that does less just to make a fashion statement. They are just as savvy as Android users. They write ingenious and creative apps. They find ways to make iOS do things that no one ever imagined it could. In the end, it comes down to a choice of platform and carrier more than inherent functionality.

In any event, both iPhone and Android have their relative strengths and weaknesses, just as both AT&T and Verizon have their relative strengths and weaknesses. I just wanted to raise the level of debate from blanket statements about either platform or carrier that are more hyperbole than arguments that are grounded in facts. If we’re going to make comparisons, let’s talk about specific capabilities and not generalizations.

Now if only someone could tell me that they’ve solved the battery life issues with the Android phones….

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I’ve been with Verizon since 2000 for my cell phone. I’ve been patient up till now. But with ATT’s exclusivity contract expiring, Verizon had better do what ever it takes to make this happen. I refuse to get a smart phone, or any other phone from verizon that requires a data package unless it’s an iPhone. I’m tired of Verizon sales agents trying to convince me to get a droid when I pay my bill in the store. I’m also tired of all those Droid fanatics trying to tell me it’s so wonderful. And Yet, every Droid friend of mine has had a different phone.

I deal with complicated computers and programs all day long as a tech integrator in a large number of schools. 5or 6 different whiteboard systems, different school website creation tools, three different version of MS Office, etc, etc.. The last thing I want to worry about at the end of the day is Droid. Is it system 1.6, 2, 2.1, 2.2, or what are the specs on this manufacturer of a Droid phone, why’s this one better than that one? AHHHHH! Forget it. I want simple that I know works the way I need it to.

Besides, I’ve used iTunes since it first came out years and years ago. I’ve bought tons of music . . much of it with DRM, and the same for Movies. Not to mention that I have an iPod Touch for which I’ve spent a pretty penny on apps. I want an iPhone!!!! I refuse to spend more money on apps for another platform, (I’ve spent close to $100 on productivity apps, another $50 on game apps, and prob another $30 or so for some iBooks) when I have the apps that I use everyday with my iPod Touch. I know my apps will work on an iPhone and I’m tired of carrying around both a phone and an iPod touch all day. I want one device.

Get it Verizon?!?! There are lots of us that have been patient. If the potential ATT customers don’t get you excited, how about all the long time Verizon customers like me that will be jumping ship. My monthly bills for the past 10 years has netted verizon over $12,000). I will not be a loyal verizon person any longer and just get a droid because that’s all you offer.

If you manage to screw this up Verizon, then I’m gone when my contract expires. I’ll go to Sprint or T-Mobile . .whichever one gets it. . . . I’m still not desperate enough to switch to ATT. I’d rather go back to two soup cans and a long string. The reception around here would probably be better with the cans.

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