Rumor: Verizon iPhone to debut early next year
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will start manufacturing a Verizon-ready iPhone by the end of this year, with sales to start early 2011. Based on the iPhone 4, the new phone would leverage CDMA technology instead of the GSM 3G mobile technology used by AT&T. Wireless telecommunications company Qualcomm will provide a key chip for the new device.Sourced to "people briefed by Apple," the WSJ story is thin on details but is published on a reputable site that usually doesn't stick its neck out on unfounded items. If this report is grounded in truth, it indicates the end of AT&T's exclusivity deal with Apple and the possible opening of the device in the United States for even further carriers.
This is a rumor we've heard several times before.
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I am getting so so so sick of Verizon iPhone rumors and wonder why excellent sites like TUAW keep reporting on them.
October 08 2010 at 2:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, since Verizon just announced the LTE network is being introduced into several cities and will be available for use with new smart phones in the first half of 2011, this seems likely that the next release of the iPhone will come out for more networks. Introducing the iPhone 4G next spring, now available on Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, maybe even T-Mobile if they get their act together. So I'm saying it won't me a CDMA phone like most people predict, but you'll need to live in a big city to use it on a non-AT&T network.
October 06 2010 at 9:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow. Give it a rest with propagating these Verizon CDMA rumors!
This is becoming like the boy who cried Verizon iPhone. Until it is ACTUALLY here, the rumors are crap.
October 06 2010 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm getting sick of this rumors...
October 06 2010 at 5:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy does TUAW still publish this crap....
not happening
Ain't happened 'till it's happened.
I can't believe that it'll come with a Verizon logo and Verizon's "App Store" though.
Protip: Reporting on it more often doesn't make it any more true.
October 06 2010 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'll guarantee this to be true. Announcement will be Jan. 11. The Verizon iPhone will be released the beginning of March.
October 06 2010 at 4:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySounds like I should make a book about how many rumors there are of this. My book would be called:
Fat People Getting Sex From Hot Girls, Cheap Drugs, and A Verizon iPhone: Things many people in America want, but can't get.
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