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Bloomberg reporting tonight that Verizon will be carrying the iPhone in January:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0...clusivity.html I am torn. We have 5 iPhones in our house and generally coverage is good, but with the addition of my recent iPad, I am noticing very slow down times on AT&T. Perhaps Verizon will be a welcome change. Now that I got a job, I can buy more Apple products! |
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So..."two people familiar with the plan...who declined to be identified" are saying it's definitely going to happen this time. Why does this sound so familiar?
This should probably be in Spec&Rumors, methinks. I'll believe it when Steve Jobs says the words on stage, and not a moment before. |
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This rumor is stronger and more constant than all that neverending "tablet" crap the past 3-4 years. And look what happ...oh, wait.
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That would fit with the extended eligibility of AT&T. I mean, they didn't do it just to be nice. It was just to get as many customer before Verizon comes in. Glad for you if it's true guys.
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There's just too much noise. WSJ reporting that production is starting this fall, AT&T mysteriously allowing everybody who is upgrade-eligible in 2010 to upgrade up to six months early, &c. I really do think that we'll see an iPhone on Verizon in either September or January. And there's no reason (besides signing another exclusivity deal) that CDMA iPhone couldn't also work with Sprint, and all of Sprint's prepaid brands to boot. And as long as they're going multi-carrier, a T-Mobile 3G version is just a radio band away. I'm thinking the lack of a Verizon iPhone this month was probably more production-related than contract-related. I mean, they can't make enough of them as it is, and they're already shipping them out before the glue dries. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Doesn’t Verizon also officially launch 4G/LTE in January?
Makes you wonder... |
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Glad I saw this before I went out to get a Droid this week...
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I still say it isn't coming. iPhone 4 was just released, the timing is off. Why would you release a sought after new product after Christmas? Why wouldn't you just wait for LTE adoption at this point? I don't think the increased inventory and retail complexity is worth the trouble.
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It would be like expecting Sprint to make a WiMax-only phone now. Quote:
I don't think they're going to turn down the opportunity to potentially double US iPhone sales because of "increased inventory and retail complexity." Hell, they sell more iPad models than they do iPhones. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Does anyone else think the biggest indicator of an impending Verizon iPhone is AT&T's switch from the very Jobsian flat rate unlimited data plans to the more confusing and differently priced tiered data plans? I just don't think AT&T would pull this kind of shit if they weren't losing their iPhone exclusivity soon anyway.
As soon as I saw AT&T was doing that along with pushing up everyone that had an upgrade in 2010 to June, for the first time it seemed like a Verizon iPhone was actually coming. |
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I hope so because my Verizon plan is up on Jan 1 2011. I want an iPhone so bad...
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Well it is not like ATT would have been the iPhone's only carrier in the U.S. forever.
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Seriously, though. CDMA is "a dying technology" in the same sense that 3G GSM is -- both are getting replaced by LTE, but that's...a ways off. And this is the same company that sold a $600 EDGE phone in 2007. I don't think they particularly care about supporting bleeding-edge networks (or the iPhone 4 would have HSPA+ ).
Yes, they'd have to ZOMG make a separate model. But I really don't think that's as big of a deal as some of you are thinking. I mean, Samsung just announced five different versions of their Galaxy S smartphone for different US carriers. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Look at how many people are replacing their 1 year old 3Gs iPhones. If Apple made a pre-LTE Verizon iPhone, they'd sell millions. And the next year, they could make an LTE version and re-sell millions to those same customers. Those that don't want one, will have a CDMA version that still works - and will for a few years. Those that want the latest greatest would be buying a new one anyway. And except for pscates, no one uses a cell phone longer than 2 years. Do you know where children get all of their energy? - They suck it right out of their parents! |
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I'm sort of glad I'm on Sprint. I can only imagine the pounding the Verizon network will get once the iPhone launches on it.
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I doubt it would be as bad as it was for AT&T since the phones would be spread over two carriers and 3G and 4G for Verizon and Sprint are data only networks so you wouldn't see the dropped call issue. Plus, Verizon tends to be better at building networks than AT&T.
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So yeah, spreading the phones between two or three (or four!) carriers should keep things okay. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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If they decide to throw LTE in there then it's Verizon only. Personally I can't see Apple putting doing business with Sprint but hopefully I'm wrong.
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Maybe in order to appease Steve, Verizon had to kill the Kin?
Oh, who am I kidding, the Kin killed itself! |
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I could also easily see them swapping out UMTS Band VI for Band IV on GSM iPhones sold in North America; they're not advertising the (FCC-confirmed) existence of Band VI anywhere at the moment. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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I read some rumor two days ago that said Verizon was going live in 25 cities with LTE on 11/16/2010 and the iPhone would come out on Verizon on Black Friday.
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For some reason I thought Verizon and AT&T were both planning to use the same LTE technology, which would eliminate the CDMA/GSM divide, but reading this thread makes that sound false. Can anyone fill me in? (Robo?)
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