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Yippie for direct connect.......Love it
Phone service was terrible for sure.

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Originally Posted by Meiac09 (Post 705913)

Yes, but also the CDMA is for Verizon ONLY. GSM is worldwide, I jb'ed my iPhone 3G and used it on SFR, Orange UK, T-Mobile DE, O2 and Swisscom. The R+D costs would be almost as atrocious as Verizon's data plan pricing. Also, fun fact, driving up 95, my friends VZW Blackberry tour took 15 minutes to load the detour info for the interstate near me thats shut down. It takes less time for BMW assist to tell me that, and thats saying something. Iphone took 90 seconds.

Blackberry smartphones like the Storm and 8830 are dualband - CDMA and GSM.

They work in over 200 countries.

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Originally Posted by Quicksilver (Post 705916)

I still don't get this "I can't make a call unless it's on Verizon stuff".
I still have no problem with AT&T. Of course there a few areas where
AT&T has reception problems but so does Verizon. In fact all
cell phone providers have the same kind of problems so everybody's
in the same boat.....

It's location specific. I can be standing in Times Square with my VZW Blackberry and a friend with an Iphone and guess which one of us can make a call? "Can you hear me now?"

Now on the north shore of the eastern end of Long Island by my cousin's house, no carrier has a tower, so they all suck equally.

BUT, in a metropolitan area like NYC, Dallas, Boston and L.A., you should be able to make and HOLD calls without problems, and ATT by far has the most complaints with that issue.

AT&T should shut off visual vmail on iPhones if it wants an immediate impact on lessening network traffic. Pushing vmail mp3's to all of those iphones has to be a huge drain on the network.