Now Apple Ads touts advantage of ATT's 3G network

Well, they have Verizon there. Now all they have to do is send an iphone user into the streets of NYC of Chicago and watch them squirm for a signal.

Also, I do not like how AT&T and Apple sped up the video on their commercial like that. You can't do anything they were showing that fast.

 

I saw the commercial for the first time last night. I thought it was annoying, and I love AT&T.
-Jay

 

Yes, I enjoy the multitasking aspects of talking & data at the same time, I just found the commercial annoying to me. Maybe the commercial just wasn't nerdy enough for me.

 

Leaving all personal biases aside, the commercials strike me as being too amateurish, specially compared to the Verizon commercials.

Just my 2 cents.

 

What she said!

 

Well, you have to remember this is a commercial, not a tutorial. The point of it is to show the capability of the device and the network, so they have to squeeze everything into a 30-second spot.

 

I would never use my phone like the ones used in Apple's ads.

I don't use my phone for anything else except to talk an awful lot,
and my internet is 4-5x faster than mobile broadband, 10 mbp/s cable modem at home,
soon will be upgraded to 16 mbp/s.

If I ever wanted mobile broadband, it would be a laptop or netbook on the Verizon Network,
but for me this still might be 2 years away.

 

I guess it is all up to each individual need, I like the fact that I can use my phone like a computer when I am not home. Not to mention the qwerty keyboards that you find on computers for texting and e-mailing.

 

Perhaps that's what the problem is, they look dated compared to Verizon's innovative ones. Nothing new in the iPhone ads!
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It's a tremendous improvement from the Luke Wilson attempt(s). lol.

I found them to be pleasant and "informative", yet not creative or humorous - but I also don't think the intent was to be so. (It would be difficult to be that when it's a continuation of the same old campaign.....same music.....same voice.......different subject........)

The same realization had occurred to me - if you use no data whatsoever, there wouldn't be any reason for you to care one way or the other whether you have 2G or 3G service (at least to my knowledge - and aside from any negative effects on 2G voice service from having implemented 3G service in an area); and if you use no voice whatsoever, then having 3G service is likely of critical importance. Obviously most (phone) users fall somewhere in between the two extremes; but someone using a data card has no need for simultaneous voice and data usage (yet they are going to care about the higher speeds possible in the near future with at&t's "real" 3G).

 

Yup I know, for many of my friends and family, 3G or even 2.5G data would be useful
(my brother is actually considering the iPhone over the Droid,
though our home is in an AT&T EDGE - Non-3G area, and I told him about the Droid on Verizon 3G).

I'm just used to the way I use my phone for voice (around 10,000 voice minutes per month)
and if I need data, Most of the time I'm at home, on the computer most of the day as well, LOL.

That's the way it's been the past 3 years, and I've adapted to that routine quite well,
I'm not about to change that so quickly, which is why I said maybe 2 years from now I might get a netbook.

 

LOL, that translates as BORING to me, obviously you and I are not going to be in agreement over these commercials ever.

I find the Verizon commercials entertaining but misleading, and you found them to be a revelation & informative.

I find these AT&T commercials dated and boring and you find them "pleasant and informative"

The next thing I know, you will be venturing over to the dark side and posting how wonderful "Evil Red" is.

 

Why do you think the vzw commercials were misleading? They clearly said 3G coverage. They didnt show 2g coverage for either Verizon OR AT&T.
(I will not, however, that vzw showed EXTENDED 3g coverage, not that it really matters. If you play by those rules, Sprint could show their 3G map with all of Alltel 3G included too)

 

LOL Yankees, you are not going to start that again.

Here you can read through all 4 pages in this thread and see both the for and the against.


http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/wireless-news/76577-t-sues-verizon-wireless-over-3g.html

 

To quote an 80's saying, "Rather be dead than red..."

 

Lol i know, I just like to get you AT&T folk angry. The truth is I like the commercials from both sides here. Verizon has valid points, as does AT&T.

 

Ha-ha, now THAT's a commercial I'd like to see

 

Well, I grew up in the 80's, and that's the time period I remember it from. It quite possibly is much older, but was used in the 80's as well.

 

Semantics?

"Pleasant" = music is bouncy. But content is not especially interesting, which could approach "boring". However, at least it highlights an aspect of 3G that at&t has in it's favor??? So when they turn up the speed maybe they can make a really good commercial. :lmao:

Verizon commercials were very clever and entertaining - I always said that. I also agreed that it was possible for people to misinterpret them (without calling those people semi-catatonic, I might add ), but not that they were misleading. Unfortunately for at&t, I did find them revelationary - that at&t map was a "WOW!!!!" moment.