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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. Re:Steve would never do this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Verizon's not doing this to their Android phones, so I see no reason why they'd do it to their iPhone (not that Apple would ever allow that to happen).

  3. different systems by swschrad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    nothing that will work on the ATT network will work on Verizon. different chipsets, different modulation, different cell-skip algorithms.

    so Apple would have to whip up two different phones altogether. they could keep the screen and maybe some of the case parts, but nothing else. they don't do that.

    we are entering a new era, in which the 4G systems are going to be more similar than different. now, it makes sense for Apple to span multiple 4G systems, as you just fork the software left or right at boot, and twiddle some tables. note the rumored verIphone will only work in the 4G realm, which will be 1/5 of the network or so in January, but the whole thing by the 2012/2013 boundary.

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    1. Re:different systems by Lars+T. · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, but its Apple, look at Motorola which pretty much shipped 4 versions of the Razor phone for each of the major carriers, just add some drivers to iOS and divide manufacturing between CDMA and GSM iPhones, for a company as large as Apple, its not too huge of a feat. For a tiny community driven company, yes, for a major hardware vendor like Apple? Its easy.

      Why do something as easy as ship 4 different phones for the 4 major US carriers, when they can do something as complicated as ship one phone that works with at least one provider in just about every place on earth.

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      Lars T.

      To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

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

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