Sprint, Verizon and AT&T iPhone 5

 

Now that the iPhone is lastly offered on 3 key carriers inside the US any one stateside who has not created a acquire but is most likely to be asking yourself which technique to go. You'll find a great deal of variables to think about like expense and strategy offerings, but the universal continuous is the fact that persons like speed.

The iPhone is a superb device, but how rapidly your network delivers data to you is usually a significant limiting factor in how swift the devices will really feel. That’s why its critical to create an informed selection about which carrier to choose if you would like the zippiest iPhone. Thankfully, Jeff Benjamin at iDownloadBlog has gotten his hands on all 3 versions of the new versions iPhone 4S readily available inside the US and has performed a “head-to-head-to-head” comparison:

The outcomes aren’t all that surprising if you are familiar using the network technologies involved here. Sprint’s network, while according to CDMA technologies like Verizon, is aging and its 3G speeds are ordinarily sub-par even as its reliability is high overall. So it is not a shock that it runs last in this test. Roughly the order from fastest to slowest is:

AT&T

Verizon

Sprint

However, there is often a bit of a catch when it comes to choosing between Verizon and AT&T. Verizon’s CDMA 3G technologies is tuned to give wonderful burst rate download speeds, allowing users to quickly snag smaller bites of data. This can make Verizon quicker than AT&T as you saw inside the video, but only if you are snagging smaller chunks of data like websites.

On the tests when larger amounts of data are needed, AT&T’s network pulls ahead inside the stretch because it is capable of download speeds up to 14.4Mbps using its HSPA technologies (no arguments here about HSPA versus HSPA+ please). The iPhone 4S’s antenna has been optimized to take advantage of this speed and when cruising with a good signal you will download larger files like videos and such much quicker.

This doesn’t answer the question of reliability or overall network coverage, which Verizon and Sprint both have in spades. But if you are in an area with good and reliable AT&T coverage, you are going to get the best maximum velocity there.

Let us know what kind of network speeds you are seeing if you’ve managed to get your iPhone 4S activated.