AT&T's been measured independently as the most reliable network for quite awhile, and its funny, you dont hear them basing their entire advertising campaign based on supposed reliability, because they're not idiots. With any provider, reliability and call clarity varies depending on location.
Verizon also uses one of the earliest forms of 3G technology, called CDMA, or Call Division Multiple Access still. I remember when the old AT&T switched from TDMA (a related technology thats actually a couple of years newer than CDMA) to GSM about 5 years ago.
Truth is, without the marketing spin that you're gonna get from any provider, from a technical standpoint CDMA networks aren't anywhere near as reliable as GSM for the simple fact that the technology's older, slower, less secure, less widely used (Seriously, have fun trying to use a CDMA phone in Asia, the Middle East outside of Israel and Iraq, and in most parts of Europe, whereas anyone can use a quad-band GSM phone anywhere from Beirut to Antarctica). Also there's only ONE manufacturer of CDMA chipsets, and its Qualcomm. So if you're stuck with CDMA technology, you basically have to wait for Qualcomm to come out with new chipsets to get new features for your phone, as its one of the least scalable forms of wireless technology. And finally, CDMA doesn't support high speed data transfer through either GPRS or EDGE, they have EV-DO instead which is still fairly unproven and a good deal slower.
Verizon can really blow it out their arse about reliability and how great their network is. In truth, its aging, and they'll eventually end up hurting from their insistence on using Qualcomm's nonsense.
Why do you think Apple never considered making iPhone for CDMA providers? And its not because Apple has any problem with proprietary components, they used IBM PowerPC processors for years.
The launch of this phone intruiged me because of the mention of myspace mobile. So I looked into it and ended up here. I read all of your posts and here's my 2¢.
I'm browsing this page, and manage my myspace account from a T-mobile sidekick. Helio having myspace mobile really means nothing, because the sidekick can view myspace as it is on the internet without having to subscribe to some stupid simplistic version of myspace. And also, myspace kinda sux. The phones that have built in iTunes, and video playback are much better. Helio will probably make a lot of money on this venture, but that just because the ignorant masses ooh, and ahh over hype like this.
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