Verizon To Offer iPhone 4

Do you read your emails while you are talking? I don't. Personally I think that would be rude (not trying to call you rude, its just my opinion). If I am talking on the phone then it's an important conversation that can hold my attention. Unimportant conversations I reserve for email or texting, both of which can be done at the same time as internet usage. But, if that is something that is important to you then Verizon or Sprint are definitely not the right carrier for you at this time. As their networks cannot do it.

My main point was that this is a limitation of CDMA technology. Not the phone being crippled.

As for the app updates (unless you meant things like status updates or weather updates). I highly advise against auto-updates. I have had many apps messed up because they updated automatically to a version that had bugs. Now I manually update all my apps and read comments first.