You really think they'll cripple the new iPhone...? Will Apple actually allow that...?
I love my new 3G S. Still, the battery life could be better...
The point is that Verizon treated its customers with such gross disrespect that lots of customers are abandoning them regardless of any improvements.
I did the same with Belkin: most of their products are nice, but building a router which deliberately inserts Belkin ad pages randomly to replace page requests is just so grossly stupid that I won’t bother with their products any more, period. Now I’ve had Verizon take a perfectly good phone (RAZR) and cripple it (ex.: remove Bluetooth file transfer so they can charge you to get pictures off the phone); that’s just abuse - screw ‘em. The treatment was so bad you can’t trust they won’t do it again.
Verizon has a history of selling great phones, with crippled features.
And Alltel, who Verizon snatched up last year had a similar history.