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Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year

Posted by kdawson on from the this-time-fer-sure dept.

Many readers are submitting coverage from around the Net, all based on a Bloomberg piece quoting two anonymous sources who insist that Verizon Wireless will offer a CDMA iPhone in January 2011. No one at Verizon or Apple would confirm, of course, and no one at AT&T would comment. "The iPhone, which has been the sole domain of rival AT&T in the US since June 2007, will give Verizon a boost in its competition for smartphone customers, UBS AG analyst John Hodulik said in an interview. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he estimates. ... 'Apple is going to dramatically increase the number of devices it sells in the US when exclusivity at AT&T ends,' said Hodulik. ... 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"

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  1. As Annie once said... by assemblerex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tomorrow! Tomorrow!You're always a day away!

  2. I Want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Apple wants to lock down the iPhone...

    And Google wants to remotely install and delete software from my droid...

    Then I want a N900 + MeeGo.

    I also want a pony.

  3. Re:Can we shut up about this? by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's news when it happens - or when it's imminent.

    "Next year" is forever in mobile phone world. People change phones every 2 years - next year is "half a generation away".

    'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'

    'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that the new iPhone has faced.'

  4. Uh huh. by Snap+E+Tom · · Score: 5, Funny

    And 2011 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.

  5. Re:Can we shut up about this? by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'

    'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that the new iPhone has faced.'

    The quality issues aren't with the iPhone, they are with the iPhone customers. They're holding the phone wrong, remember?

  6. Re:Can we shut up about this? by DragonWriter · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am certainly NOT an Apple fanboy, but it's silly to claim that this isn't news, *assuming* it turns out to be true.

    If a Verizon iPhone actually occurs, or is announced, that will be news.

    That there are reports from anonymous sources that a Verizon iPhone will happen in the near future is not news, its s pretty regular occurrence.

    As an analogy:

    While it would be significant news if Judgement Day occurred, it would not be significant news that there was a man with a hand-lettered sign on a sidewalk in a major city announcing that Judgement Day was imminent.