Just saw an AT&T commercial saying that on Verizon you can’t surf the web and talk at the same time but on AT&T you can. HUH?
I’m a Droid user and I can surf the web, check email, and use GPS navigation at the same time as well as running any other app I want and it all works. So isn’t this clearly false advertising? I’ve never owned an iPhone but I thought it was the one that couldn’t multitask. Have they fixed that?
UPDATE: Whoops! I swear I remember it did work – but I just tried it and it didn’t work. I wonder if the last “upgrade” screwed it up. I’m going to do more testing.
UPDATE2: Further investigation. The reason I thought it worked was that I had a WIFI connection to the Internet. You can surf and talk at the same time if you have WIFI. So – it appears that AT&T is correct and I’m now disappointed in Verizon.
#34 – It’ll be a couple of years before any 4G network is rolled out enough to matter. By then we’ll all need new phones to handle other tech changes that will have happened. I wouldn’t hold off on a smart phone now.
Anyone can cover cities. The reason Verizon’s network is superior is they cover the areas that matter: non-cities. Cities are disgusting places we are forced to go into at times. We need data coverage where life is worth living.
That was on Twit a few weeks ago John!
This is the same story if you are using EDGE on AT&T (as the original iPhone did) – You can’t use voice and data at the same time.
Still, if you wanna have fun with your oy!phone acquaintances, just watch them when they’re most focused on whatever they’re doing on that toy piece of junk (most likely a dumb game) and call them. Endless source of fun.
FAIL!
Anyway, its not a fight between Driod and iPhone, it is CDMA vs GSM. CDMA is crap and GSM FTW.
Actually EVDO allows for simultaneous voice and data, but neither sprint nor verizon has implemented it, instead putting their energies into better networks.
I had someone tell me they can surf the web and be on a call at the same time with the sprint network a few days ago. I also called Sprint who said this capability has been available for a few months on the Sprint network. Does anyone know if this is true? I saw the press release on the cdma tech website that said this was coming soon dated Aug 17 2009 with EVDO Rev A and 1x on cdma network but found nothing else. Did sprint already get this upgrade with no big buzz about it? Or maybe this Spint user was just connected to a wi-fi network.
Wow…with an iphone you can talk and surf….. on the slowest wireless network available. No thanks, got rid of my iphone and at&t and found out how much I was missing out on using iphone.