The iPhone’s arrival on a second network solidifies its position in the very top tier of 2011's smartphones

9/10

The iPhone comes with a one-year limited warranty and 90 days of toll-free telephone support. An extended AppleCare warranty will cover your iPhone for two more years; it costs $69 extra. That cost was not factored into the price of our test unit.

After our testing, the question we were left with is whether the Verizon iPhone is truly the answer to all of the AT&T version's problems. The answer, of course, is yes and no, based on your needs. If you live in a congested urban area where many of your friends and neighbors may have been constantly plagued with poor service, you may be pleasantly surprised. We can attest in our New York tests that we did not lose our service once in a week of heavy usage. Of course, you'll make the trade-off of the AT&T phone's ability to use data and voice at the same time, as well as the presumably faster 4G network that you won't be able to ride on with this phone.

If AT&T's wireless-service quality has never been a problem for you, the AT&T version remains the winner here. And if you've been considering switching to an iPhone from another smartphone, there's nothing new here to sway you if the AT&T version didn't. But most of the ingenious and groundbreaking features from the AT&T version are here, solidifying the iPhone's position in the very top tier of 2011's smartphones.

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Jonathan Rougeot from Computer Shopper (Mar 15, 2011)