Verizon iPhone 4 owners report fewer dropped calls than those on AT&T

By George Wong on 04/05/2011, filed in Home > Apple

The verdict is out – well, according to the latest survey results released by ChangeWave anyway. From a sample of over 4,000 iPhone 4 users in the US, more AT&T users have reported calls dropping when compared to the iPhone 4 users on Verizon (4.8% vs. 1.8% respectively). This looks like Verizon’s CDMA network really is an improvement over AT&T’s GSM network for the iPhone 4. However it is noted that these are relatively early stages of the iPhone 4 on Verizon – after all, AT&T has had the phone for a longer period, therefore have a larger amount of iPhone 4 users that are contributing to AT&T’s network congestion. Maybe once Verizon’s 3G network gets loaded with more iPhone 4 users, the results could tell a different story but for now, it looks like Verizon is the clear winner. How many of you have switched over to Verizon from AT&T for the iPhone 4 and has your phone’s connection improved drastically since then?

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iPhone: iPhone: The iPhone is Apple's line of smartphones. That was also the original name of the first iPhone, which was announced on January 9th 2007 by Steve Jobs during the Macworld Keynote. The iPhone was released to the public in June of the same year. The development of the iPhone started in 2004, was internally called "project purple" and was the fruit of a collaboration between Apple and AT&T. Since then, Apple has released new iPhone models every year, with the iPhone 3G in July 2008, the iPhone 3GS in June 2009, the iPhone 4 in June 2010, the iPhone 4S in October 2011 and the iPhone 5 in September 2012. The iPhone represented more than half of Apple's revenues in 2012.

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