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With the release of the Droid, Verizon is now a place to consider buying a phone. Although, Verizon has the best network, they didn’t have a good exclusive phone. Since the Droid has an application market to compete with the iPhone’s, will Verizon’s amazing network fall to mediocre?
Applications can take tons of data. If you are watching a show on Ustream, listening to music on Pandora, browsing Facebook, and anything alike, you are most likely using a ton of data. If you have at least 13 million other people doing the same thing, your network won’t be the fastest. This obviously happened to AT&T. AT&T was the best network before the iPhone, and almost everyone had an AT&T phone. With the great application list the iPhone had, it brought the network down to mediocre.
Life I said earlier, the Droid has an application market to compete with the iPhone. It has almost all the main applications that the iPhone has. Once the Droid grows to more people, Verizon’s network will obviously go down to where AT&T is.
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Not that simple, I don't think. As I recall, AT&T's big problem is coverage. Bandwidth may be an issue, but the reason I've had Verizon for the better part of a decade now is because the network is far more extensive across the nation. That's been the case since before the iPhone made the scene. So, if bandwidth is an issue, and it may be, it's just one of two key deficits from which AT&T has suffered.
Well if you go into a major city like SF or NYC you can't really do much because of the high use. This isn't about coverage, more the speed.
Sure, but again, that's pretty specific. A lot of people don't live in high-density urban environments. I'm not saying you're wrong about the speed problem, but the fact is, Verizon had huge advantages over AT&T long before the iPhone and the Droid, so speed isn't the only thing putting Verizon ahead, and it likely won't be the only thing to keep them ahead.
In your “About The Author” you spelled celebrities wrong. Lol
my bad
Fixed. Thanks.
Jake,
I have been saying the same kind of thing to my friends lately. I am an at&t iPhone user. I don't live in NYC or SF and have good 3G so I can't complain much at all about at&t. I do think that if Apple takes the iPhone to Verizon, the same issues could happen. Cell towers are a bottleneck for data hungry users. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.