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War Eagle
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Re: No Wi-Fi????
You can't make those kind of generalizations. Here in MD (close to the Bay), there is minimal signal to be found in most of the residential areas of Anne Arundel County, despite relatively flat terrain. The odds of you getting EVDO coverage indoors is extremely slim. I myself can't get more than 1 bar of 1xRTT indoors, leading to numerous dropped calls and frequent hour+ text message delays. |
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ARHerrington
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Seriously, this is a mistake! If you think about, customers that are actually going to buy this phone are more than likely on some kind of company plan where the BES is already going to be paid for, so if Verizon is worried about loosing money on the Data plans with Wi-Fi enabled, they seriously need to take another look. You would imagine that the engineers would love to see less of strain on the EVDO network.
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macedon
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agreed
its puzzuling
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NetAdmin
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said by Matt  : They want the biz market and those folks don't care about WiFi. I do. When I walk into the steel and concrete buildings that our company has, the kind that block cell phone signals QUITE well, WIFI would be a welcome addition to my phone.
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aaronwt
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said by MPScan :said by 33591094 :Really? I did not know that. The telecommunication companies really are run by complete and utter morons, aren't they? Actually, the main reason that Verizon passed on the iPhone is because of the amount of control that Apple wanted over the handset. For example, requiring the phone to be sent back to Apple for a battery replacement. Verizon wasn't willing to do that to their customers. But in Hindsight, after the massive numbers of people that the iPhone brought to At&T, I would think Verizon would have made the changes if they had it to do over again. |
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eco
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said by EPS :In any case, who uses their cell-phone at home anyway? Especially considering that VZW doesn't offer any sort of UMA service, which might I guess be useful if you wanted to drop the landline and got poor coverage at home. I for one do. A land line is a waste of money and these days I'm on the internet twice as much on my phone as I am on my computer |
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eco
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Wilmington, DE | reply to Matt
That may have used to have been true but speaking as an iPhone 3G user, wifi used way less battery than 3G does and I really doubt EVDO gets that much better battery life than HSPA. |
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ptrowski
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said by MPScan :That's because the AT&T network sucks ass. With the Verizon EVDO network, there isn't really a need for WiFi, at least in the Northeast, where their network is superior to any other carrier. You are in Boston, I am in rural CT. Two totally different markets, chief.
My neighbor works at the Verizon store in Millbury, Ma. Great reception there, not so hot here.
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dlewis23
join:2005-04-18
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said by MPScan :said by dlewis23 :said by 33591094 :The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon. The iPhone is not coming to verizon anytime soon, and one who believes it is coming, is an idiot. In the contact that apple and AT&T have, AT&T has in there saying that apple can not make a CDMA version. Yes, but that contract has an expiration, of I think 5 years, at which point Apple is free to produce a similar product for Verizon if both parties agree and AT&T can't do squat about it. Yea till they sign a new contact for the 3rd get iPhone. |
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MPScan
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Boston, MA | reply to ptrowski
That's because the AT&T network sucks ass. With the Verizon EVDO network, there isn't really a need for WiFi, at least in the Northeast, where their network is superior to any other carrier. |
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MPScan
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said by dlewis23 :said by 33591094 :The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon. The iPhone is not coming to verizon anytime soon, and one who believes it is coming, is an idiot. In the contact that apple and AT&T have, AT&T has in there saying that apple can not make a CDMA version.
Yes, but that contract has an expiration, of I think 5 years, at which point Apple is free to produce a similar product for Verizon if both parties agree and AT&T can't do squat about it. |
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MPScan
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said by 33591094 :Really? I did not know that. The telecommunication companies really are run by complete and utter morons, aren't they?
Actually, the main reason that Verizon passed on the iPhone is because of the amount of control that Apple wanted over the handset. For example, requiring the phone to be sent back to Apple for a battery replacement. Verizon wasn't willing to do that to their customers. |
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Matt
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I think everyone is missing the point. WiFi doesn't matter to the intended audience for this device. They are not trying to compete head-to-head with the iPhone. They want the biz market and those folks don't care about WiFi.
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Count Zero
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in my apartment even Verizon doesn't get coverage. So at least with wifi my iPhone can use Internet features. Plus wifi let's me control my apple tv and airport express/iPod hifi speakers in my bedroom using my iPhone as the remote. That feature wows guests all the time. Not having wifi is a mistake. Plus wifi is faster than evdo. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to RickNY
It might be an optical illusion thing from the shape? The iPhone has curved edges which make it look thinner, while this seems to have sharper edges on the sides. |
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ptrowski
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said by djrobx :said by Matt :Because WiFi sucks batteries? And if you have a BB with Verizon you already have an unlimited EVDO account? OK, but what do you do when you are in a poor coverage area? In LA, because of the terrain you can't count on cell coverage being great wheverver you go, no matter what provider you're on. If wifi is a battery drain you can always turn it off. Good example there. I get 2 bars in my house, sometimes 3 and am in Edge territory. Wifi on the iPhone gets me around 3.3 mbps download, so for me, wifi is crucial.
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splat1622
join:2008-09-08
Cave Spring, GA
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said by chlen :I dont get the need for wifi on these phones... I dont have VZ, but I have sprint and data is unlimited. If EVDO on VZ is anything like Sprint then why have your phone cost more and suck up battery. My palm does just fine at 1.5mbit on average. HSPDA is nowhere as fast as EVDO on Sprint, so I get why you may want it there, but if you average 1.5mbit why do you need wifi? maybe because you are paying extra for that data plan,if it had wifi on it,and you had access to wifi it is free.my wife has verizons palm centro great phone but does not have wifi on it either in which we are forced to pay 40 dollars a month just for the unlimited data plan that she could use for free if it had wifi.not putting wifi on their phones is just a way to force you to buy their expensive data plan,and use their 3g network,and not use free wifi |
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RickNY
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said by EPS :The phone is rather large as it were, with GSM, HSDPA, CDMA, EV-DO, and GPS already in there- it was probably left out because of size considerations more than anything else (as it were half the comments I see about this thing elsewhere are "lol itz huge") It has almost the same footprint as an iPhone widthwise, and it isnt as long as an iPhone.. And its a lil over 1.5mm thicker than the iPhone.. Why is everyone saying its huge?
112.5mm L (iPhone: 115.5mm)
62.2mm W (iPhone: 62.1mm)
13.95mm D (iPhone: 12.3mm) |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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The phone is rather large as it were, with GSM, HSDPA, CDMA, EV-DO, and GPS already in there- it was probably left out because of size considerations more than anything else (as it were half the comments I see about this thing elsewhere are "lol itz huge")
In any case, who uses their cell-phone at home anyway? Especially considering that VZW doesn't offer any sort of UMA service, which might I guess be useful if you wanted to drop the landline and got poor coverage at home.
I don't think this was a VZW order, though, because the Vodafone Storm 9500 doesn't have WiFi either. Vodafone even carries the One Holy iPhone in some markets, so I don't think they have anything against WiFi. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to fuziwuzi
Verizon has a history of shutting down things like this because it might take away from their revenue stream. No Wi-Fi makes it easier to say no.
Blackberry I think will be having a difficult time in the near future. |
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