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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here and the smartphone Smackdown that I've been waiting years to do perhaps you've been waiting to see is an iPhone family feud in the left hand corner we have the Challenger the Verizon iPhone 4 and on the right we have the defending champion the AT&T iPhone 4 dressed up in white we're gonna put these two cupertino made handsets to a showdown and see if we can have a winner or at the very least help you decide which carrier is going to be best for you so without further ado let's fight alright so let's start off with how the phones look they look very very very similar although there are a few subtle differences from the front you've got that same slab interface you've got the home buttons front-facing camera on the left there are some antenna designs that I've been changed and whether that knock that's been to accommodate CDMA radio that's found the Verizon version are meant to address the antenna issues we'll see in an upcoming video so the one on the left here is AT&T you got the same break on the bottom left and this is the one that was causing all those antenna problems you still have that same location there on the Verizon device the profile switches here are a little bit staggered and you do not have the antenna break right above it on the AT&T phone on the right hand side this is where the lawn of the differences are you don't have a SIM card same antenna lines and you don't have the same break on 18 t phone not overly exciting let's get to the stuff that I think most people are going to care about and let's talk about network speed so right now both of these are connected to the same wireless network I'm actually gonna run a speed test here to show you that so we've got the speed test app speed test app don't allow you to current location don't allow and we'll begin the test on each and we'll just to show that they are running on the same Wi-Fi network I am gonna drop this down however to their 3G services I just want to give you a baseline for at least what's and your wife is going to be so you can compare your 3G offerings whether it's AT&T whether not it's going to be Verizon we've got almost identical showings here nine point seven two versus one nine point nine so very very close figures we got our up and down looks like the Verizon iPhone actually had a little bit of a faster uptick it was just due to testing times alright so let's go ahead and turn Wi-Fi off now and let's get to some of the good stuff and test actual network speed here then go ahead and kick Wi-Fi off we'll do it here on the Verizon iPhone I'm gonna do the same thing here on the eighteen T iPhone and this is where a lot of differences are going to come into play so go ahead and kick that off all right so I've got about three bars of Verizon 3G I've got about five four bars or so of eighteen t 3G so you got pretty good service here so let's start with a few web pages these are web pages that have been loaded on each device so consider this a test of pages that you can look at on a regular basis let's start at the YouTube channel youtube.com slash John four Lakers go ahead and open it up and go ahead and queue it up here and we'll do a pretty simple refresh just to see how things would look actually I'll go ahead and type it in there we go John for Lakers channel then we'll go ahead and refresh these and see if there's any sort of speed test I do want to show you that both of these pages has of course been on here before alright so looks like it's just about ready here on the AT&T side so we'll go ahead and hit refresh on both that right there right there go and go so much easier only testing two phone sometimes when you run these with three phones and possibly get all your fingers in the right spot so the AT&T phone definitely has a bit of an edge here when it comes to speed we've got the Verizon AT&T phone is done the Verizon is still struggling to pull in the content the bar is being held up right at the beginning looks like now we're starting to see some progress and this is a little bit slower than I've seen in tests off camera but it is representative of AT&T s network speeds actually have been much faster than Verizon's so it's continuing to finish loading here all right and it is done all right so let's load a site that has a mobile version for example maybe one that has less graphics images let's queue up here espn.com which is gonna load up the mobile version of each alright for our next test let's try espn.com and again this is going to be the mobile version so go ahead and hit it on here and hit it on here and we'll go ahead and let them both load up and see if we've got any sort of speed winner looks like the AT&T clearly shows something earlier talking about a potential Lakers Nuggets trade interestingly enough and we're still seeing it load here on Verizon and this is deathly representative of real-world speed you are going to get faster downloads over 3G on the Verizon iPhone when you're doing it over Wi-Fi speed differences are completely negligible especially around the same Wi-Fi network not going to be much of a difference here but you are definitely going to get faster data speeds with AT&T but how much faster let's go ahead and go back to that same speed test app and let's see what the difference is now again I'm just in Southern California you may have different results depending on where you are but I'm pretty well blanketed and coverage for each so go ahead and open up both these speed test apps again binding closest server there we go and let's go ahead and begin the test and this isn't a speed test of the speed test I just want to show you how quick a Verizon's network is here and how quick a TI T's network is going to be so we are loading I keep in mind you know one megabit per second the two you know it's probably gonna be a little down the faster side but about what you can uh you know what you can expect for for average speeds ett claims their 4G HSPA+ network could pull in just about 6 megabits if you want a bit of a comparison whereas Verizon's LTE can pull down you know upwards of 22 I'm actually seeing a real-world test so we've got a giant difference here when it comes to speed a tremendous difference actually when it comes to speed download and upload three point seven megabits per second down on ET point one four megabits per second down on Verizon one point one one up and point O two and you don't have to know what those megabits mean other than knowing the higher the number the faster the download and the faster the upload is gonna be on the upload one and there's a big difference here between point one four and three point one seven something that I thought you guys might want to see alright so let's go ahead and close this let's also go ahead and try opening some applications that are similar downloaded and was a mega jump here it's a free game in the App Store I've never opened it on either device let's see if there's any sort of discernible speed difference here well now I can say I've opened it on both devices didn't quite work on time let's try that again there we go so get set that was clearly not an accurate test moral being they do open up pretty close to the same time I don't want to enable open Fame and things look just about identical on each performance wise gaming is gonna be exactly the same there really is no speed difference here at all where you will notice a difference so if you're using an application that's data heavy it's where that data is going to come into play all right so let's talk it's been a lot of talk actually about simultaneous voicing data and what that means to you and whether or not it's going to matter in your phone usage so let me show you what that means I'm gonna go ahead and start loading a web page here I'll go ahead and back and I'm gonna pull it off to the side and I'm gonna load let's say the YouTube channel again solo youtube.com slash John for Lakers and as I'm doing that I'm going to actually call myself wallet pages loading I'm not on Wi-Fi and we'll see what happens so that's gonna load it's loading I'm gonna cover up the business here hey I don't see any phone number action you can see that the phone is going to actually ring while this is going on so there you go phone is for the green go and that there so there is sort of your calling while you are browsing let's try the same thing but we'll reverse that now we'll bring in the iPhone 4 for Verizon and I'll load up the same YouTube page and we'll see what happens here as well so I'm going to go ahead and make the same phone call let's go ahead and hit load when I cover up with this business as well trying dial someone and they could see the page is loading and it's still going to ring there's been a lot of questions of whether or not the phone's even gonna ring or not it was concerned that I had something that certainly you don't need to worry about however if you are on a phone call for example and you are trying to do some internet browsing you're not going to be able to do so on the Verizon iPhone 4 something to keep in mind by the phone will certainly ring if you are using the web or some sort of other application was a concern that I had having not been a Verizon iPhone user before since it's a new device I thought you guys might have had that concern as well all quality wise as far as a call fidelity I wouldn't say that both Etim Verizon do sounds equally good to my ear here in Southern California I've certainly had dropped call issues with AT&T I have not had the Verizon iPhone long enough to determine if those are gonna be the same problems I can't tell you that I've driven through areas where I traditionally get dropped call with AT&T and I have not had those problems with the verizon phone but there may be very fresh new dead drop zone areas with Verizon that I'm not getting AT&T so it's too early to really make a call on that the Verizon iPhone is not really mass available yet either so I'm curious of how this is going to change once there's sort of a bigger network adoption or more pressure on the network itself so no guys this has been ahead Ted comparison of the Verizon iPhone versus the 18 t iPhone which camp are you on which is carrier of your choice I'm very curious to hear what you guys have to say leave your comments down below I'm John renter Buffalo I check out the website for all your tech news for exclusive content check me out at Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and I'll see you the next video bye bye