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it wasn't long after the iPhone arrives on AT&T that the pining began when do we get it on Verizon I'm Bryan Cooley with a top five that won't even rehash the reasons folks wanted it on any network other than AT&T I mean that bitching is part of the American technology fabric at this point no this is top five reasons that you should not buy the Verizon iPhone 4 number five it doesn't do voice and data at the same time sad but true AT&T z' GSM technology has it all over Verizon CDMA network in this respect AT&T iPhones can do data and voice at once well that's if you can get a damn signal at all said I wouldn't do that anyway bear in mind the folks behind CDMA technology promise a network upgrade for Verizon and others to allow dual mode operation sometime later this year maybe it's still kind of iffy got to be concerned about that number four good luck overseas Verizon's CDMA technology is a mixed bag for global use you can roam mostly in Canada Mexico the Caribbean Asia but not Europe Russia Brazil and by the way that's roaming with all those lovely fees that make your eyes water there's no chip in a CDMA phone so you can't just buy an el cheapo sim when you land in country and be up and running not a great travel fund number three it's kind of a retool the iPhone 4 on Verizon was a midseason refresh with CDMA innards yes but not designed from the ground up as far as we know to be a CDMA phone I've just got this nagging feeling there have to be some shortcomings around that number two it's not 4G and that is the biggest thing going on in cell phone networks in the next couple of years that you'll be locked into a contract 4G networks and there you'll be sitting on your 3G iPhone 4 deciding between taking and checking email watching all your fellow Verizon customers with their hot seat dual-core 8 megapixel HDMI in and out Android 4G phone thinking damn it Apple got me again before we get to number one another reason you've got to rethink the iPhone on Verizon is that you just have to plain rethink the iPhone check out the list of non Apple smartphones we love on Verizon now and pending you can find them all on CNET cell phone section okay the number one reason yet gotta think twice about getting the Verizon iPhone 4 is will verizon be the next AT&T this is the big question will Verizon's network dragged to a crawl as a flood of AT&T defectors and waiting for Verizon side liners jump on board and hammer their network AT&T 3G network is technically faster maybe it just needs to lose a few million customers to show it and Verizon's going to offer tube clogging unlimited data plans for their new iphone customers till further notice something AT&T put the brakes on some time ago so there you might be on a Verizon for what 2 years with your single tasking not really global sure as hell not 4g iphone with a potentially bonking network the smart money says give it about 6 months before you make the jump our complete comparisons and coverage of both flavors of iPhone are always up to date over on CNET cell phone section i'm brian coulis thanks for watching