Sunday 23 January 2011

Two Promotional Apple iPhone - AT & T and Verizon

After months of fighting between Verizon, Apple and AT&T, the latest ad from Apple shows it's all one big happy family, showing the Verizon iPhone 4 and AT&T iPhone 4 side-by-side with the tagline "Two is Better Than One."

The ad is set to the Blue Danube (or An der schönen blauen Donau), the famous Johann Strauss waltz. It shows two iPhone 4s simultaneously scrolling, surfing, checking iBooks, using FaceTime, and more, all identically, before the AT&T and Verizon logos appear, followed by the tagline "Two is better than one."

Past ad campaigns by Verizon have mocked the AT&T network and the iPhone on it. Now that the popular smartphone is on the Verizon network, any anti-iPhone (and pro-Android) commercials will be a thing of the past.

One difference missing from the commercial, and one thing that Verizon iPhone buyers need to remember, is that voice and data calls cannot be made simultaneously on CDMA network. That means that if, say, you are listening to an Internet radio station, when a call comes in, the station feed will automatically terminate. Once the call ends, you will be reconnected.

Looking at it from the other direction, if you were on a call, you couldn't suddenly go to Yelp at the same time. In this case, you won't disconnect from the voice call; it just won't work.

Watch the video below.