VZN and the iPhone 4

When the news came through at 11:05 EST (or so) that Verizon was going to start offering the iPhone 4 as of February, I called my father because he has wanted one for the last year but he did not want to switch from a carrier that worked well in the Berkshires...but he wanted to get out of the BlackBerry ghetto. (which is not saying anything negative about the BlackBerry or the users of said device, it is more a statement that while other companies have been innovating by leaps and bounds, RIM has stayed still offering phones that aren't much different from the Curve that I had in 2007)

On the various social media platforms that I subscribe to, there were calls of "Hallelujah!" and promises to switch in three weeks.

Now, I have had three different carriers over the past decade: T-Mobile, Sprint/Nextel, and AT&T. I have never noticed a difference in service and I have had all three carriers as smart phone carriers.

Are you going to switch? Running down my contact list, a lot of the are VZN users, so...what are you going to do?

If you are a normal user of phones and not a bleeding edge adapter, get it. It is a wonderful device. I have been often known to say that it is the "best piece of consumer technology since the transistor radio" and regardless of the career, it is still going to be.

What if you are a bleeding edge adapter?

How are you going to feel in May when Apple announces a new iPhone (which may be LTE) and you are locked in to having the old phone for another eighteen months?

Is your gadget lust stronger than your will to wait a couple of months for the LATEST AND GREATEST offering from the mind of Jobs & Co.?

Then...what did I tell my dad to do? Oh, I told him to switch.