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Why I’m Not Getting The Verizon iPhone 4

Posted by on Jan 10, 2011 | 16 Comments

Today at work I was having a conversation with a coworker of mine over the upcoming release of the iPhone 4. We concluded that we will wait for the next Verizon iPhone to be released before we think about getting an iPhone on the Verizon network.

Although many AT&T users will be rushing to switch from the multiple dropped calls in a row and unstable network, it would be best to wait for the next version before you make the big switch. Remember that all Verizon and Apple will be announcing is a new carrier for the iPhone 4, not a new version of the iPhone.

Just like it has since 2008, Apple has been releasing new versions of the iPhone at almost the exact same time every year. That means about six months from now Steve Jobs will be back on the stage showing us the iPhone 5, so you’re basically paying for a $300 phone to use for six months before your iPhone 4 looks outdated and you want to buy the next installment in the iPhone series. In some mystic way the next iPhone will be better than the one being announced later this week.

Another point to consider is that if you pick up the iPhone 4 now, you are locked into a two-year contract with Verizon and you won’t be up to get another phone for another year to year and a half. Now watch out, Verizon may come out with some deal or special to entice users to switch their iPhone 4 to the Verizon network, essentially trapping them for two years in a contract. They will not only miss the iPhone 5, but they will then have to wait for the iPhone 6 to be released before their contract may be up again to get a new phone.

Looking at the trend it is indisputable that in June of this year another iPhone will be announced and the bigger question is, are you going to switch now or will you wait out your current contract for another six months to then be the owner of the fabulous iPhone 5?

On one last note though, my coworker also pointed out that this update might be like the 3Gs and not be that much different with it. Then again, Steve Jobs never stops for anyone or anything.

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  • http://tiogafireprotectionandfireprevention.blogspot.com/ @FiremanRich

    This is why I’ve stick with my LG TracFone for the last 5 years. Hey, it has txt so that’s pretty high-tech for me in a cell phone.

    Oh…that’s right their called “SmartPhones” now. Wait…I thought it was people that were suppose to be smart not a cell phone? lol

    tomato…tamato it’s not about who has the latest & greatest but who you do with what you have at hand.

    hmmmm…sort of like being happy to have a cell phone for now because it does exactly what I want it to do because I’m the smart one.

    “Observing & Reporting” you can follow @FiremanRich on Twitter. Be Fire Safe, Be Fire Wise, Learn Not To Burn!

    Ciao For Now!
    Peace : )

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  • http://pinnaclenetworking Pinnacle Networking

    The big negative about Verizon is there is NO unlimited text messaging plans its 500 or 5000 in this area… With four lines already, we hit that just with the teenager in the house. Not to mention mine and my wifes texting together. The lack of a solid unlimited data plan as well makes me stay with sprint and the awesomeness that android has to offer.

  • D

    Been using a Motorola W233 for about a year. Gets me jobs as a sub…plays 400 of my favorite MP3′s and it was free when my roommate gave it to me when he added me to his Friends/Family plan on TMobile. Being a candybar…the screen has scratches/marks from being in my pocket…but it makes me money/saves me money.

    Want to get a Samsung with a full keyboard…but not a smartphone when the refund comes in. If I want internet access…I have 4 computers at home to choose from without the data caps/fees the provider puts on the account. Plus…it’s nice not being tethered to the Internet all the time.

  • Deborah

    I have been with AT&T for years and have not experienced the dropped calls and other problems with their service. Do people just like to complain regardless? I wonder…

  • Bill K

    Why I’m Not Getting The Verizon iPhone 4. BECAUSE iPHONE 5 is right around the corner and will B LTE compatible or 4G ready where iPHONE 4 IS NOT.

  • Scott Bartels

    4000 dpi is BS marketing. They are counting each color as its own dot. If you want to compare you should count each sub-pixel in a display. Woohoo! Triple the ‘resolution’! Here’s what you should be looking at. Printing NEEDS 300 DPI to look decent. Most commercial printing is 300 DPI images. There are special print methods for fine art that can reproduce 600 DPI or higher but the differences to the eye are very subtle. Compare this to screen DPI though. A 72 DPI photo at 1:1 pixel on a large LCD will look perfectly crisp but if you were to print the same photo at the same physical size as its screen size it will look very sub-par. Why do relatively low DPI displays make photos look better I can not explain but it does. I therefore believe that a higher res display will only enhance this effect further meaning at 200 PPI the image will be every bit as good as commercial print.

    • http://robertglenfogarty.com/ Robert Glen Fogarty

      Excellent explanation, Scott. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

  • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

    I just wish Beejive was Universal, as it currently looks horrendous on my iPad screen.

  • Anonymous

    Totally agree…can’t we light a fire under those guys to get out an iPad app??

  • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

    They’ve had more than a year to port it over. Maybe Trillian will beat ‘em to it?

  • Anonymous

    Or Adium will cowboy up and put out some apps…

  • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

    Doubtful. I dropped Adium a few weeks back because I found it actually being too much of a drain on system resources.

  • Anonymous

    Oh? So you’re on Trillian on your laptop?

  • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

    Honestly, I don’t use IM on the go as much as other people do. If I did, though, it would likely be the client which had best sync’ing across all platforms.