Exactly.

ATT needs to focus on network buildout and actually provide 3G coverage like Verizon.

Until then, it's just a pretty looking doorstop.

Speaking as a previous iPhone owner.

 

While I am only about 80% satisfied with ATT, Verizon in the Houston area is definitely not the answer. I've tried Verizon two different times over the past 3 years and it has been so bad that I've returned the phone/contract both times before the return period lapsed. Now, in the very rural areas of Texas, Verizon seems to do better than the rest, but in the Houston metro area it sucks.

 

Love the current iPhone. AT&T does kinda suck, but the coverage in my area is great, and the fact that a CDMA Verizon version is not a worldphone would be a complete pain in the ass for me.

New iPhone looks awesome! Can't wait to get it. And LOVE AT&T for bumping up the date for an upgrade. The kids and I will all be getting upgrades on the 24th! Thanks AT&T!!!

 

This is a joke right?

 

Not a joke, can you show me a better looking phone? I don't think anybody else offers stainless steel and all glass for $299. Looks at the mobile device web browsing usage, iPhone dominates it at 58%. Just shows people who own iPhones really use it for what it is. Tell me what phone does better than iPhone 4 and I'll listen.

Here are just a couple of features, and no I do not work for Apple.

1. Highest Res Screen
2. Thinnest Smart Phone
3. Largest App Support
4. Largest Web Browsing Usage & Support
5. Best Camera Technology, integrated backlighting system w/ LED Flash
6. HD Video Recording
7. In Phone Movie Editing Software with Themes & Transitions
8. Video conferencing
9. 7 Hour Talk time, who else has this?
10.Front and Back Glass (Glass that is close to the scratch resistance of Crystal Sapphire of high end watches) Enclosure w/ Stainless Steel (These are premium materials nobody else offers in this price range).
11. Built in Gyrometer, Acceloromter, WiFi, GPS, Proximity Sensor etc.

I have been with ATT for 3 years now since the release of the first iPhone. Reception is not as bad as many make it out to be, my phone works 99% of the times so I don't have any reason to complain. I have an unlimited minutes plan so I rely heavily on my cell phone, if it were that bad I wouldn't be using it. I had a Verizon BB before I switched and haven't looked back since. I have taken my phone overseas to different countries without having issues, even works in Bora Bora!

 

I'd get it, but it's on a shitty network that can't get one bar in NYC, in times square of all places... True story, my friend had borrow my phone to make phone calls because his wouldn't. Never switching to AT&T, if it was on Verizon I'd get an Iphone in a heartbeat, until then it's BB or droids.

 

Wow, of all the cities in the US NY has the worst ATT connection? Sorry to hear that. We'll I'm speaking from my own personal experience. You would figure that fix it by now right?? Well hopefully by next year Verizon gets it too.

 

So because 58% of mobile web browsing is done on iPhones, the iPhone is in a league of its own? Gtfo. And wtf are you talking about with 'largest support'?

The EVO has a better camera, better video recording, far superior video conferencing; the N1 has an all-aluminum body and glass-shielded OLED...

You are making it painfully obvious that you have no idea wtf you're talking about. I love Apple, I'm even typing this on (what some would consider an absurdly overpriced) MBP, and it's my love of Apple that's making me so disappointed with the iPhone 4 and iPad. I expected more. The iPhone and Macs have the advantage in OS usability and stability, which is awesome for the hardcore and novice (like yourself) user alike. Though a minority, some people (and in the case of phones...myself) prefer tech and a superior network to user-friendliness and pro marketing.

The iPhone is a phenomenal gadget, just stop claiming it's the biproduct of endless celestial sex unless you can actually justify it.

 

You rang?

They've already changed the world; Apple was the first company to ever take touch interfaces beyond the realm of playtoy and apply the idea in a manner that allows for direct interaction with content.

When it comes to UI design, the truly remarkable interfaces underwhelm from the moment you first start to interact. They work at the subconscious level, requiring neither thought nor planning.

As it stands, Apple is the only company to manage to deliver *anything* that approaches such a degree of unity.

I hate to sound like a fanboy, but Apple really opened the door with the iPhone and subsequent work with multitouch. So much so, that there's a clear and discernable change in direction with mobile device development post-iPhone.

You don't have to cure cancer to change the world. And, whether you choose to recognize it or not, Apple most certainly has heralded in a new era of interaction with our data, integrating it into the heart of our everday lives in a manner never before seen.

And that, my friend, more than warrants getting excited about the product you developed as, I hate to break it to you, few people have influenced modern electronics in the same way as Jobs and Ives, together with their band of merry wankers at Apple.

 

I dig it but ATT in NYC is just not ok. So until Verizon get's it I just cannot do it.