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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Babcock" data-source="post: 15639" data-attributes="member: 65">Re: iPhone 4 is on Verizon!!!I fail to recognize the ATT iPhone as a global phone. You can&#039;t claim something as a viable global option when everyone who has an iPhone puts it in airplane mode the second they get on a plane going out of country and off airplane mode the second they get back to the US. While it might work overseas, the overcharges one pays for using it is way over the top. I haven&#039;t seen the pricing plans for Verizon, but if they have something similar to the Blackberry global plans, it will be thousands of dollars cheaper per tour than using an ATT iPhone for business. I saw a phone bill for a singer&#039;s iPhone usage on a 2 week Euro tour where he called his GF every night for a little while...over $5000...no thanks. My Verizon BB phone bill which included a couple very short calls, a few hundred text messages to my GF back home, tons of BBMs, and emails advancing the next leg of the tour...$300 (normal is about $150 and the only roaming charges were for the phone calls and texts, everything else was on the global data plan). That is the difference between a global phone (Verizon BB) and a phone that works everywhere if you want to pay out of the nose (ATT iPhone).On another note, does anyone else find it extremely rude to have someone tell you to hold on while they look something up when you&#039;re on the phone with them listening to a bunch of loud pops and bangs as the first person types crap on their phone? While the surf while you talk feature seems nice for the one who has it, I&#039;d be happy if it went away, never to be heard of again!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Babcock, post: 15639, member: 65"] Re: iPhone 4 is on Verizon!!! I fail to recognize the ATT iPhone as a global phone. You can't claim something as a viable global option when everyone who has an iPhone puts it in airplane mode the second they get on a plane going out of country and off airplane mode the second they get back to the US. While it might work overseas, the overcharges one pays for using it is way over the top. I haven't seen the pricing plans for Verizon, but if they have something similar to the Blackberry global plans, it will be thousands of dollars cheaper per tour than using an ATT iPhone for business. I saw a phone bill for a singer's iPhone usage on a 2 week Euro tour where he called his GF every night for a little while...over $5000...no thanks. My Verizon BB phone bill which included a couple very short calls, a few hundred text messages to my GF back home, tons of BBMs, and emails advancing the next leg of the tour...$300 (normal is about $150 and the only roaming charges were for the phone calls and texts, everything else was on the global data plan). That is the difference between a global phone (Verizon BB) and a phone that works everywhere if you want to pay out of the nose (ATT iPhone). On another note, does anyone else find it extremely rude to have someone tell you to hold on while they look something up when you're on the phone with them listening to a bunch of loud pops and bangs as the first person types crap on their phone? While the surf while you talk feature seems nice for the one who has it, I'd be happy if it went away, never to be heard of again!!! [/QUOTE]

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