Seven things a Verizon iPhone can do that an AT&T iPhone can’t

Why do you need a Verizon iPhone, when the iPhone has already been available all across the United States via AT&T since 2007? Here are the top things you could do with a Verizon iPhone that you can’t do with an AT&T iPhone:

1. Make a phone call if you’re in an area where Verizon gets a signal and AT&T doesn’t.

2. Avoid the ignominy of having to publicly admit that you’re an AT&T customer.

3. Pretend that your carrier is actually the 1990′s band Vertical Horizon.

4. Become one of those Verizon users who love to claim that AT&T iPhone users have dropped calls all the time, even though you’ve never seen any evidence of it.

5. Switch to Verizon, realize it sucks nearly as much as AT&T, and then begin a multi-year campaign to try to force Steve Jobs to bring the iPhone to Sprint or T-Mobile instead.

6. Brag about how your carrier doesn’t have an ampersand in its name.

7. Make a phone call if you’re in an area where AT&T gets a signal and Verizon doesn’t – no wait, that’s something they can do and you can’t.