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Verizon iPhone: The Unboxing

 & Lance Ulanoff Former Editor in Chief

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Verizon iPhone Box

There's virtually no indication on the box that this Apple iPhone is something different.

An Apple iPhone from Verizon

Turn the box around and you can tell, if you look closely, it's a Verizon iPhone.

Inside the Verizon iPhone Box

Open the box and you find a familiar-looking phone.

Verizon iPhone Out of the Box

Can't keep this phone in a box forever.

What's Inside the iPhone Box

Here, we spread out all the pieces of Apple's always elegant product packaging.

Verizon iPhone Cables

Apple always packages all the cables so neatly.

Holding Apple's Verizon iPhone

We can tell you that this phone feels just like the AT&T one.

First Look at the Verizon iPhone Interface

Yup, it looks almost exactly like the AT&T iPhone except for that tell-tale sign in the upper left hand corner.

Compare with the iPhone AT&T

For the sake of comparison, here's what our AT&T interface looks like.

Verizon iPhone Back

Now we've flipped the phone around. Looks almost exactly like the AT&T iPhone.

Verizon iPhone Bottom

A look at the bottom of the Verizon iPhone: Still hard to see any differences between it and the AT&T model.

Verizon iPhone Side View

Here's where you first start to see some subtle differences between the AT&T and the Verizon model.

Verizon iPhone Button Side

Apple tells us that the Verizon iPhone buttons are in a slightly different position than those on the AT&T model.

Comparing the Verizon iPhone and the AT&T Model

AT&T's iPhone is on the left, the Verizon iPhone is on the right. No real differences.

Looking at the Two iPhones from the Side

Ah, the first real differences between the phones. AT&T is on the left and Verizon is on the right. Note that there's only a single break in the antenna band on the [[AT&T]] iPhone. Also, you'll see that while there's a removable slot cover for the AT&T SIM card, the Verizon iPhone has no such slot.

Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone Top View

Once again, there's a change in how Apple broke up the antenna. The Verizon iPhone, on the right, has no break on the top.

Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone Buttons

The buttons between the two iPhone look the same, but Apple moved the Verizon ones (on the right) just a bit.

Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone base View

These look virtually identical.

A New Bumper

Apple had to create a Universal bumper to accommodate iPhone 4's on AT&T and Verizon

A Phone and Its Bumper

Getting set to put this bumper on the Verizon iPhone.

FaceTime for Everyone

Just to be sure, we made a FaceTime call between the Verizon and AT&T iPhones. Everything worked just fine, though our AT&T connection was so thready that we almost couldn't make the initial Cell call.

Personal Hotspot

The new Verizon iPhone can act as a personal hotspot--a trick the AT&T iPhone cannot match.

Setting Up Your Personal Hotspot

Apple and Verizon make it dead simple to share your 3G data connection with up to five other users. It auto-generates a password (you can also set up your own).

Personal Hotspot Connection Choices

You can connect via Bluetooth, USB or Wi-Fi.

How Many Are Connected

The Verizon iPhone will always show you how many people are connected to your hotspot. If the number is greater than you expect, you may have a leach on-board.

About Our Expert

Lance Ulanoff

Lance Ulanoff

Former Editor in Chief

A 25-year industry veteran and award-winning journalist, Lance Ulanoff is the former Editor in Chief of PCMag.com. Lance Ulanoff has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases, "on line" meant "waiting" and CPU speeds were measured in single-digit megahertz. He's traveled the globe to report on a vast array of consumer and business technology. While a digital veteran, Lance spent his early years writing for newspapers and magazines. He's been online since 1996 and ran Web sites for three national publications: HomePC, Windows Magazine and PC Magazine. A graduate of Hofstra University, Lance has history with the PCMag brand that spans nearly two decades, having worked there in the early 90s and returning in 2000 to relaunch PCMag.com. In 2007 he was named Editor-in-Chief. During his tenure, Lance guided the brand to a 100% digital existence. In his capacity as Senior Vice President, Content, for Ziff Davis, Inc., Lance oversees content strategy for all of Ziff Davis' Web sites. His long-running column on PCMag.com has earned him a Bronze award from the ASBPE. Winmag.com, HomePC.com and PCMag.com have all been honored under Lance's guidance. Lance served host of PCMag's weekly podcast, PCMag Radio and makes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Fox News, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, NY1, CNN HLN, BBC, New York's Eyewitness News, News Channel 4, and WCBS. He has also offered commentary on National Public Radio and been interviewed by newspapers and radio stations around the country. Lance has been an invited guest speaker at numerous technology conferences including Think Mobile, CEA Line Shows, Digital Life, RoboBusiness, RoboNexus, Business Foresight and Digital Media Wire's Games and Mobile Forum. Lance also posts to Twitter all day long. You can follow his tech industry activities and thoughts at http://twitter.com/LanceUlanoff

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