Verizon officially announced a few moments ago that the iPhone would be available next month, February 2011. Several months of speculation and rumors can now be laid to rest.
My response: Damn, I broke down four months too soon.
I switched to Verizon in 2007 after the decline of coverage with a previous provider. The first phone I had gotten was a Samsung Alias (1st model, not the Alias 2. Yes, I'm old school like that.), and it had served me well for three years (yes, that's well beyond my initial contract). I had been holding out on the upgrade, waiting to see if the iPhone would be revealed last summer after the end of the initial exclusivity contract.
Summer came and went with no reveal, and I was starting to get frustrated by some of the limits of my Alias. The Alias 2 didn't impress me, and I was leaning towards a smartphone of some sort (partially thanks to a voucher I had gotten), and after some deliberations I opted for a Droid 2.
And I've not been disappointed. There are a lot of improvements over the Alias (quite obviously to be expected), but it's still a Droid. It's not an iPhone.
Which is where all of this is going. I have other apps that I have downloaded for other devices that I would like to be able to transfer... and other apps that I would like to consider that would require a GPS triangulation feature available with cell phones (bike & running route generators, I'm looking at you). The Droid Market doesn't make the search as easy to browse through apps as iTunes (add to the equation what changing a device might do with transferring data - still old school experiences here, so smart phones may be ahead of the curve with ease of transfering).
Will I switch over? Probably, if for no other reason than unity of information across devices. Am I about to break my contract to get one next month when they become available? Not likely. It will be a wait-and-see to make sure the bugs are worked out, and to get near the end of my current contract. Besides, I just might get the chance to upgrade from a Droid to an iPhone 6 by then.
Go me.
2 comments:
While it is great that the Iphone is on Verizon, it is on a CDMA network. Personally, I don't like the fact that CDMA limits the phone's capability to be used overseas. In the states it is great. I definitely would wait for a new version of the Iphone 4
Lucky me, Marshall upgrade to the Generation 4 iPhone for Christmas and he sold me his 2nd gen for $80. so far, I m using it as a wifi facebook and iPod until my contract is up and I can upgrade to it next month.
Miss chatting!
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