What would it take for a Nexus phone to have the same leverage as the iPhone on Verizon?
What would it take for a Nexus phone to have the same leverage as the iPhone on Verizon?
To go further, we will get a Verizon branded Nexus with updates from Google when enough people will drop or not use Verizon because of it.
Should Google concentrate on getting the Nexus 5 on AT&T instead? AT&T's network is definitely compatible, but AT&T doesn't sell the Nexus 5. If I recall correctly, the iPhone started on AT&T before it moved onto Verizon. Once the iPhone became very popular on AT&T, Apple had more leverage to use against Verizon. Perhaps Google could do the same.
The N5 works on AT&T. They just don't sell it in AT&T stores. They don't really need or want to, either. Since they sell it directly via Google play, there's no incentive for a subsidized carrier version. Sprint's subsidy on the 16GB version is gravy to them. It'd be nice for end-users if they had more choices in a subsidized phone, but Google's fine just competing as the best deal in unsubsidized handsets. They sell everything they can make without the hassle of going thru carriers.
If a device maker is looking for leverage against Verizon, the 700MHz band is the chink in their armor. They have to allow BYO devices in that band. Once the Qualcomm chipsets that support every band everywhere start rolling out in more devices, there will exist a pile of gadgets that can connect to VZW's LTE network but somebody else's voice network. Then who knows what happens -- all hell breaks loose?
--Qfg
While AT&T doesn't sell it nor has a way to stop it it doesn't sell enough to carry in stores and even if they did it will probably be valued at $500 like sprint and t-mobile full price is. I guarantee you that they do like the nexus 5 though because if you want the nexus 5 and the best national carrier (overall coverage) coverage AT&T is the best by far (depending on area). AT&T is getting all the customers that need service in those rural areas and want the nexus 5.
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Do you have proof to back up AT&T having the most coverage? I could of swore that was Verizon.
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That you can use the nexus 5 on? Yes it does with those terms
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Ah if you're locking it to a specific phone.. Okay makes sense then. .
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Yes this is about the nexus 5 so that's why
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Should Google concentrate on getting the Nexus 5 on AT&T instead? AT&T's network is definitely compatible, but AT&T doesn't sell the Nexus 5. If I recall correctly, the iPhone started on AT&T before it moved onto Verizon. Once the iPhone became very popular on AT&T, Apple had more leverage to use against Verizon. Perhaps Google could do the same.
I don't like that idea. They'd want to put carrier software on it, effectively destroying it.
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That you can use the nexus 5 on? Yes it does with those terms
I also don't care about LTE coverage and basing it on overall coverage
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Should Google concentrate on getting the Nexus 5 on AT&T instead? AT&T's network is definitely compatible, but AT&T doesn't sell the Nexus 5. If I recall correctly, the iPhone started on AT&T before it moved onto Verizon. Once the iPhone became very popular on AT&T, Apple had more leverage to use against Verizon. Perhaps Google could do the same.
There was actually an exclusivity agreement preventing it from moving to Verizon sooner.
They initially passed on it and then Apple approached AT&T. We know the rest of the story.....
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There was actually an exclusivity agreement preventing it from moving to Verizon sooner.
They initially passed on it and then Apple approached AT&T. We know the rest of the story.....
Verizon doesn't allow any device that they don't control. I switched to AT&T when I got my N5. I was worried that the coverage wouldn't be as good as Verizon but it's actuall better and the speeds are much better. I travel around rural New England on the weekends and I'm getting decent connections on my N5 with AT&T in towns where I had no connection at all with Verizon on my Galaxy Nexus.