![]() Generally AT&T is thought to have a faster network and offers the broadest overall phone coverage, but Verizon’s got more 3G coverage. PCWorld broke down the four majors and reported that AT&T had the fastest overall network, but of course results varied from city to city. All the carriers find different ways to measure speed, reliability, and even the size of their networks, all in order to claim that they’re the nation’s number one something or other. ![]() So is Verizon faster than AT&T? Better? Does it offer more coverage? Verizon FAQ says that apps such as VZ Navigator and V Cast Media Manager will be available on the App Store, but they won’t be pre-loaded on the phone. And not all devices support tethering-for example, you can’t tether an iPad to an iPhone to use the latter’s 3G connection.Īre there any Verizon-specific apps installed?Īccording to Apple’s Phil Schiller, no-which, as with the Verizon’s conspicuous lack of a Verizon logo, is unique among the carrier’s smartphone offerings. Another difference is that AT&T’s tethering, which is accomplished via USB or Bluetooth, restricts you to connecting a single device to your phone. One difference between the carriers is that with AT&T, your tethering data is taken from your monthly 2GB data plan Verizon’s hotspot feature-at least when used with the carrier’s existing smartphones-draws from its own, separate pool of data. With AT&T iPhones, tethering costs $20 a month in addition to requiring the $25-a-month 2GB DataPlus data plan (although you can activate the tethering feature on a month-to-month basis). There’s no word yet on whether the hotspot feature will be an additional cost beyond the standard Verizon iPhone data plan (details of which the company also hasn’t announced), but on its other smartphones, Verizon charges $20 extra to use the feature. It’s similar to the Internet Tethering feature available with AT&T on the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4 models, although with AT&T you can connect to only one device at a time, and only via USB or Bluetooth. That means those other devices can get Internet access in places they might not otherwise have it. Using your iPhone as a personal hotspot means that you can share its mobile (3G) data connection with up to five other devices (such as laptops or iPads) over USB, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. What does it mean that you can use the Verizon iPhone as a hotspot? So it depends on whether you want/need an iPhone now on Verizon, or whether you’re happy to wait half a year to see what the Next Big Thing is from the iPhone. And that brings up a valid question: do you want to get locked into a new two-year contract on an iPhone 4 six months before a potential upgrade comes out? As with all technology, you can always wait for the next revision of a product, but then you’ll wait forever and never get to actually use anything. Will Verizon release an iPhone 5 in the summer alongside AT&T? Should I wait until then to switch?Īlthough we don’t know for sure when Apple will come out with the next iPhone (and when Verizon will get it), it’s a safe bet that Apple will stick to its summer release schedule. This is notable because Verizon has long emblazoned its logo-conspicuously large-on every phone it carries. On the other hand, one way in which the Verizon and AT&T iPhones are similar is that neither sports the carrier’s logo. One minor hardware difference is that, because the Verizon phone uses CDMA-and, thus, doesn’t require a GSM SIM card-the new version has no SIM-card slot on the side. (Similarly, a new case made for the Verizon iPhone may block access to the Ring/Silent switch of an original iPhone.) ![]() ![]() Specifically, depending on how a particular case’s openings are designed, a case made for the original iPhone 4 may block access to the Ring/Silent switch on the Verizon iPhone. ![]() Some existing iPhone 4 cases won’t work with the Verizon iPhone. What we do know is that along with this change in antenna layout, Apple has moved the phone’s Ring/Silent switch slightly, and that shift means that Whether or not this affects the performance of the phone-perhaps avoiding the issue where gripping the phone could bridge the antennas-we don’t yet know. The “joints,” if you will, between those sections are in different locations on the Verizon iPhone. If you recall from the “Īntennagate” controversy of this past summer, the iPhone’s metal edge is composed of three antennas, laid end-to-end. However, there are some hardware differences beyond support for CDMA instead of GSM.įrom what we can tell, the Verizon phone uses a slightly different antenna layout. The Verizon iPhone is an iPhone 4, available in the same capacities as the AT&T version of the iPhone. ![]()
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