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 icp1Premium
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Saint Louis, MO | maps vs ads I have no problem with the maps in the adds, it's good marketing, but when they show people checking their device in the ads like they have no service at all is quite misleading. | |
|  | | Re: maps vs ads They look like me trying to use data services on Verizon from my house.  | |
| | | Well... I don't know where u live but her in east TN it is actually very common for that to be the case. I make a 2 hour drive with over 30+ minutes of that trip with my iphone being useless because of no network coverage. Verizon is without coverage for about 3 minutes.... I believe with the horrible coverage they provide stating this fact is perfectly valid. Also, AT&T has no valid argument the map plainly states 3g coverage and it is not Verizon's fault that most Americans are incompetent and can't tell this. | |
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join:2001-03-21
Smyrna, GA | Re: maps vs ads said by dot854jc:Well... I don't know where u live but her in east TN it is actually very common for that to be the case. I make a 2 hour drive with over 30+ minutes of that trip with my iphone being useless because of no network coverage. Verizon is without coverage for about 3 minutes.... I've seen the same with Sprint. I travel in the south a lot by car. For about six months I was using both an Iphone and a Touch Pro from Sprint. MOST of the time on the interstate between cities the Iphone would be on Edge service while the Sprint phone would still be on EVDO data. I can count a lot of times I would be out in very rural area where I had no service of any type on the Iphone but would usually still be in 3g or some type of available service with Sprint. | |
| | |  JoeIacPremium
join:2009-03-02
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| Re: maps vs ads Comparing a Verizon blackberry to an iPhone is pretty substantial in a lot of Massachusetts. Near the city / suburbs both work fine, but head west just a little bit and the iPhone starts to drop calls and become flaky. My dad switched to an iPhone for work, and just had me re-add him to my family share plan for $9.99 a month because he misses verizon for his 50 mile each way commute. With an iPhone he's dropping more calls than ever. | |
| | | | | | | | | JoeIacPremium
join:2009-03-02
MA Reviews:
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2 edits | Re: maps vs ads mostly 495 between the mass pike and 93, right in the middle both carriers used to drop, but vz put up a tower, now vz drops once in a great while, but at&t drops a few times a trip (~40 miles between the two highways) during calls.
Edit: so west of boston, but not western (barely even central) mass really
Edit again: looking at google maps, you cant even call that central MA, so we'll go with eastern ma, but a little bit west of boston | |
| | | | | |  ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Re: maps vs ads Hmmm, my drive from CT to West Groton was great on AT&T. | |
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| | | I dont know where you are driving in east Tn, but I live in Chattanooga, and drive to knoxville (75N) , sevierville (40), , murfreesboro (24), and down to atlanta (75S) almost weekly and I never had an area with no coverage. In a couple little areas (out in the sticks) it will drop to edge service but maybe only a few miles. But the phone service is perfect and Edge is ok for those few areas where 3g is not fully covered.
Oh, and never forget.. at least with at&t service you can talk on the phone while using browser, mms, maps..etc. | |
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join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | said by icp1:I have no problem with the maps in the adds, it's good marketing, but when they show people checking their device in the ads like they have no service at all is quite misleading. IT's not misleading.. it's a dramatization.. they are two different things.. Commercials are supposed to also entertain at the same time.. otherwise, you couldn't run a single commercial during Superbowl Sunday..
People need to be able to be smart enough NOT to be so f'ing nit-picky about what they see.. never ONCE did they say NO service.. the way I see it, they could very not getting "3G" service... it's all in how YOU want to take it.. and sorry to say, that's your problem. | |
| | | said by icp1:I have no problem with the maps in the adds, it's good marketing, but when they show people checking their device in the ads like they have no service at all is quite misleading. Not sure I've seen that one. However, as others have said before, there are times when I have full 5 bars in 3G coverage only to find that I can't connect to ANY website at all. What good is 3G if you can't even use it? | |
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