[ale] Fwd: Half of Verizon smartphone users mulling switch to iPhone

[Paul Cartwright]

Poll time!!!

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/half-of-verizon-smartphone-users-mulling-switch-to-iphone.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss 
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/half-of-verizon-smartphone-users-mulling-switch-to-iphone.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>

Results of a uSamp survey of AT&T and Verizon customers conducted last 
week reveals that 54 percent of current Android and BlackBerry users on 
Verizon's network are likely to switch to a Verizon-compatible iPhone 4 
by the time the device launches next week on February 10 
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/verizon-iphone-no-longer-a-myth-available-in-february.ars>. 
That same survey suggested that as many as 26 percent of current AT&T 
iPhone users could switch to Verizon next week as well. The news comes 
just as Verizon reported 
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/verizon-says-the-first-two.ars?comments=1> 
blowing well past previous records set for first-day handset sales in 
less than a day of preorder availability.

uSamp's data is derived from a "highly profiled panel" of over 700 
smartphone users currently on AT&T or Verizon conducted between January 
28 and January 31 (before current Verizon customers were allowed to 
preorder online February 3). Among Verizon customers with an Android or 
BlackBerry device, one quarter are "very likely" to switch to the iPhone 
4 on launch, while another 29 percent are "somewhat likely." In 
particular, two-thirds of BlackBerry users were either very or somewhat 
likely to switch, according to survey respondents.


-- 
Paul Cartwright


-- 
Paul Cartwright

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