There’s no privacy for me. My husband can usually tell exactly where I am based on where my call drops out. If I’m on the way home from work and I tell him I left ages ago, busted! The call will drop out right as I get off the West Side Highway and onto the George Washington Bridge and he’ll say, “Oh, you left late?” Or if I tell my Mom there’s no way I’m driving into the city and can’t come visit, and the lose the call twice during our conversation, she knows I’m on Rt. 4 in NJ headed towards the bridge. Busted again.
Can you tell I’m on the AT&T wireless network? And I have to say, it has improved vastly over the past year. I used to drop out in even more places. More drop-outs in more places! So when the Verizon iPhone arrived this morning for me to test out, I couldn’t wait to hit the road to make those calls. Can you find me now?
The Verizon iPhone looks just like my existing iPhone. Really just some minor physical tweaks to accommodate the different radio needed for Verizon’s CDMA network. The biggest difference is, because the Verizon network can’t transmit data and voice simultaneously like AT&T’s 3G network can, you can’t surf the web or watch videos and take a call at the same time. If you’re using data, for instance, watching a web video when a call comes in, your video will pause, and then resume when the call is finished.
Not a big deal to most people, but some will be bothered by this. Plus the Verizon network’s download speeds are slower than AT&T’s so graphics-intensive web pages or lots of emails will be slow to load.
If you just want to make a call that doesn’t drop out, you’ll be happy with the Verizon iPhone. As for me, I plan on being a woman of mystery…driving on and off the GWB, and past all those notorious drop-out zones, without anyone knowing where I am. Except my GPS.
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