Comments on: Will the Verizon iPhone 5 make and receive calls while you’re using it as a hotspot?

By: Hukk LeBuk

Hukk LeBuk — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:19:00 +0000

so if all it takes is a second antennae, has anyone made a dock that could be used on CDMA to allow that type of service or would that be considered another account that needs to be paid for as far as Verizon is concerned? (of course it would, why do I ask).

By: SKP ...

SKP ... — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:19:00 +0000

What happens when a CDMA Iphone 5 is used on a GSM network. Does it work then simultaneously with voice and data or will the CDMA version of the Iphone 5 not do it?

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:58:00 +0000

In reply to areaman714. Heh — great idea, but I left both Sprint and T-Mobile many years ago, so my observations would be way out of date! (Believe it or not, my last phone on Sprint was the old Palm Treo 700p. Nice smartphone for its time.)

By: areaman714

areaman714 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:48:00 +0000

In reply to Ben Patterson. I was with Verizon. Had a decent experience with them with customer service (very dependent on choice of Verizon store!) and call quality and coverage was vastly superior! Verizon simply became not cost effective for my needs. Maybe you can do an article on your experiences (pros/cons) of each carrier after you've been with Verizon a while? By the way, I went to Sprint for WebOs, I miss that platform!

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:36:00 +0000

In reply to areaman714. You bet! I'm about to switch from AT&T to Verizon with the iPhone 5, so we'll see how that goes—and that completes my circuit of all four of the big U.S. carriers, by the way.

By: areaman714

areaman714 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Thanks for the info, Ben. I am with Sprint for the unlimited data plans. I don’t use the hotspot feature nearly enough to warrant the 30 bucks a month access fee (I’m not the rooting kind). I have recently used the Htc EVO 3D and currently the Galaxy S2 and looking to upgrade to an LTE when Sprint get its act together for southern California. I’m 50/50 on the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy Note 2 . . .