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iPhone 4S: AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon Buyer's Guide

2011-10-05
hey guys so team you with an iPhone 4s buyer's guide well certainly isn't the biggest update in the world I'm sure a lot of you guys will be picking up the for us when it's out so let's go ahead and go over a few of the things that you need to know before you pick one up the first thing is that even though the forest is a world phone it still will be locked to the carrier of your choice in the United States this means Verizon Sprint and AT&T even though this is going to be the exact same iPhone that works on all of these networks if you buy one for example from Verizon it's going to be lost so you can't just go grab an AT&T SIM card put it in and expect it to change carriers so let's go over some of the major pros and cons with each carrier Verizon in the United States has an excellent 3G network coverage is in my opinion probably the best out of all of the carriers and overall it's going to be really solid on the other hand though it's not going to be the fastest network around so you do have some trade-offs there while Sprint can't compete with Verizon's network coverage it does have a couple of tricks of its own for starters it does have an unlimited data plan now unlike AT&T and Verizon which not only have you know two and four byte plans but on top of that they sometimes will throttle you even if you do have one of the old unlimited plans sprint this is not the case you can download as much data as you want no throttling and there's no restrictions on top of that Sprint does tend to be a fair bit cheaper than either 18-2 your Verizon so if that's an important thing for you if you really want to use a lot of data you want to save some money Sprint is going to be a good option although do keep in mind that in general the coverage is just not going to be as good as on AT&T or Verizon the AT&T 4s has one major advantage and that is it does have HSPA+ what this means is that the iPhone 4s on AT&T is technically a 4G phone now I use the quotation marks because it's not really quite up to par with for example the Verizon LTE network which is blisteringly fast however if you do choose to buy an iPhone for us on AT&T it will be about as fast as there are other 4G phones such as the Atrix 4G as well as the inspire 4G not really Verizon speeds but it should be faster than either on Sprint or Verizon if you're not interested in signing a two-year contract there is another option and that would be to pick up an unlocked iPhone 4s since this is going to lack a carriers subsidy of course the unlocked version is going to be much more expensive and as opposed to if you had signed a contract if the 4s is priced the same way as the current iPhone for is and you can expect an unlocked version to run you anywhere from 650 to 850 dollars depending on what kind of stores you have on your phone on top of this the unlock 4s will be a bit delayed compared to it's on contract counterparts where you can now pre-order the iPhone 4s on of course AT&T Sprint or Verizon starting October 7th the unlocked variety will not be able to be pre-ordered and most likely will only go on sale on the 14 moving on from this you do have the choice of either black or white so unlike the one the iPhone 4 launched where you can only pick it in black and it took months and months months for the white variety to come out now the iPhone 4s will be launching in both black and white there's no price difference or any really major differences besides just the color so of course that's going to be entirely up to you personally I kind of like white final thing that you should keep in mind we're picking up an iPhone 4s is what capacity do you want it in so the iPhone 4s will be available in 16 32 and 64 gigabyte capacities pricing will run you $200 for the 16 gigabyte $300 for the 32 gigabyte and $400 for the 64 gigabyte iPhone 4s three orders for the iPhone 4s will go live this Friday which is of course October 7th now if past events are anything to go off of I would definitely be sure to get on it as soon as possible if you want to be able to get on the release day if I having to go and wait in line in the store if you're not interested in pre-order and you can wait until October 14th which is when the iPhone for us officially goes on sale now as always there will probably be lines in various places they haven't told exactly what stores will be carrying the iPhone 4s on launch however more likely it will be all the usual suspects anyway guys it's gonna be about it for my iPhone 4s buyer's guide you found this video helpful definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you have other friends who might be interested in picking up the 4s be sure to share it around with them now I have a question for you guys if you're going to be picking up before us which one are you going to get which carrier which color which model all that kind of good stuff personally I'm thinking about picking up a 16 gigabyte white iPhone 4s on Sprint haven't totally made about my mind to still have a day or so to figure it out but yeah that's definitely what I am leaning towards anyway guys if you're interested in more coverage of the iPhone 4s definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel I will be doing lots and lots of videos once it is out so force just be sure to hit that subscribe button up above and you will be notified with all of my new content
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