{"id":2968,"date":"2010-05-12T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T01:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2010-05-12T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T01:14:03","slug":"att-reception-in-sf-is-better-but-not-good-enough-and-no-verizon-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/att-reception-in-sf-is-better-but-not-good-enough-and-no-verizon-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"At&#038;t reception in SF is better, but not good enough, and no Verizon iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 2 weeks I have noticed that my iphone was working slightly better in my office here SOMA in San Francisco, the home of cell phone purgatory. But not good enough.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1977\" title=\"attFail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail.png 276w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/attFail-115x115.png 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, I still get dropped calls in Oakland and in Palo Alto.\u00a0 So now what?\u00a0 Well, I already decided that at the end of Spring that if AT&amp;T&#8217;s service does not get better, I would switch to the Verizon iPhone&#8230;. HOWEVER!!\u00a0 There may not even BE a Verizon much less T-Mobile iPhone till 2012!<\/p>\n<p>Seems there has been quite a bit of talk about Apple having to let out the details on its exclusive relationship with AT&amp;T till 2012. Sorry, I&#8217;m not willing to put up with dropped calls and 3G only 75% of the time. Further, we have reports that Verizon and Google are working on a tablet that will run Android as its operating system.\u00a0 Yes, Apple won the first battle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?s=tablet+war\">Great Tablet War<\/a>, but the war is not over yet.<\/p>\n<p>So now what?<\/p>\n<p>ANDROID TIME!\u00a0\u00a0 Yes I&#8217;m going to pay Verizon a visit and see what my options are.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep my iPhone and continues to use it via wifi, so I will still be able to keep up with changes, cool new jailbreak apps and anything else fun and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>So what phone will I get?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know yet&#8230; but you all can look forward to a number of posts as I start my research.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I&#8217;m still planning on buying a iPad for my parents, so its a full divorce Apple.\u00a0 I still love you.\u00a0 X0X0X<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"View 2D Android apps in VR with PhoneCast &#8211; S8 only\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/view-2d-android-apps-in-vr-with-phonecast-s8-only\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">View 2D Android apps in VR with PhoneCast &#8211; S8 only<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/how-to-toggle-between-2-or-more-apps-in-android-using-tasker-geared-for-pebble-users\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Leaving iPhone for Android. 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And of course, I still get dropped calls in Oakland and in Palo Alto.\u00a0 So now what?\u00a0 Well, I already decided that&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/att-reception-in-sf-is-better-but-not-good-enough-and-no-verizon-iphone\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,3,105],"tags":[227,462,338],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andriod","category-fail","category-iphone","category-product-review","tag-android","tag-att-fail","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-LS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}