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Verizon Buying Up iPhone Domains? Well, Not Recently.

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An enticing headline over the weekend at PocketNow claims that Verizon is buying up iPhone-related domains, presumably as a prelude to the launch of an actual Verizon iPhone.


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The report notes that both iPhoneOnVerizon.com and iPhoneForVerizon.com are under the control of Verizon Trademark Services LLC. The same company controls Verizon's main domain at Verizon.com.

The domains do appear to have been transferred over to Verizon -- but it all happened in late 2008. Verizon presumably had a legitimate trademark claim to the use of "Verizon" in a domain name regardless of their intention of even launching an iPhone. Strangely the pages still point to the link farms that were hosted there originally by the owners.

While we do think that Verizon will be coming out with an iPhone in the near future, this doesn't really offer any more evidence.

Article Link: Verizon Buying Up iPhone Domains? Well, Not Recently.
 
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Lol, I like the headline :p
 
Yeah, I will STILL be surprised when this is announced. I am on Verizon and would have most definitely purchased an iPhone if it came sooner. But I jumped on the Android wagon and am very happy. I can't even use my iPod touch anymore, I just prefer Android OS. However, the iPhone is still an excellent device...please don't flame :eek:
 
" Verizon presumably had a legitimate trademark claim to the use of "Verizon" in a domain name regardless of their intention of even launching an iPhone. "

Likewise, Apple would have a legitimate trademark claim to the use of "iPhone" in a domain name regardless of their intention of launching on the Verizon network.


MacRumors said:


An enticing headline over the weekend at PocketNow claims that Verizon is buying up iPhone-related domains, presumably as a prelude to the launch of an actual Verizon iPhone.


104628-verizon_iphone_url_500.jpg


The report notes that both iPhoneOnVerizon.com and iPhoneForVerizon.com are under the control of Verizon Trademark Services LLC. The same company controls Verizon's main domain at Verizon.com.

The domains do appear to have been transferred over to Verizon -- but it all happened in late 2008. Verizon presumably had a legitimate trademark claim to the use of "Verizon" in a domain name regardless of their intention of even launching an iPhone. Strangely the pages still point to the link farms that were hosted there originally by the owners.

While we do think that Verizon will be coming out with an iPhone in the near future, this doesn't really offer any more evidence.

Article Link: Verizon Buying Up iPhone Domains? Well, Not Recently.
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Stang68 said:
Yeah, I will STILL be surprised when this is announced. I am on Verizon and would have most definitely purchased an iPhone if it came sooner. But I jumped on the Android wagon and am very happy. I can't even use my iPod touch anymore, I just prefer Android OS. However, the iPhone is still an excellent device...please don't flame :eek:
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please tell me... what kind of things about android OS do you like better... ?
 
Verison may be protecting their trademark, but they don't have a right to use or protect the iPhone trademark without the permission of Apple.

Apple must have agreed to the use of the iPhone name in this.
 
Stang68 said:
Yeah, I will STILL be surprised when this is announced. I am on Verizon and would have most definitely purchased an iPhone if it came sooner. But I jumped on the Android wagon and am very happy. I can't even use my iPod touch anymore, I just prefer Android OS. However, the iPhone is still an excellent device...please don't flame :eek:
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Get the galaxy player when it's released.
I'm pumped for it :D
 
For what it's worth there was another story about an accessory maker called Offwire having iPhone 4-Verizon as an option in their product list. It's gone now, but before the story I had never heard of the company, so as these things go, take it with a grain of salt.
 
Mattsasa said:
please tell me... what kind of things about android OS do you like better... ?
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ohhhh ill take this one:

ANDROID:
gps is A LOT better

multiple scenes so you can setup all 7 screens for work releated stuff, then setup another whole scene with 7 other screens for weekend play stuff

highr MP camera

user replaceable/upgradeable battery (doesnt matter to me but some people like that they can swap batteries if they are heavy users)

widgets are awesome, I have a calender widget on a page, and a friendstream one which links my F.B. and twitter accounts to one and keeps the stream updated instead of having to go into the actual twitter or fb app just to see updates

weather app is pretty cool too with live updates, when you wake the phone it will actually play an animation based on where you are, either rain will fall, clouds will pass by the screen, it's silly but it looks cool..

Speaker quality blows the iPhones away IMO

pinch to bring out all pages and quickly jump to another is fast and easy whan you want to jump quickly to a certain page, simply pinch the screen, all 7 pages come up and you tap on the page you want to go to

can plug into any computer as a mass storage device

Amazon MP3 store app is great, better then the iTunes one IMO

Tether for free without having to hack/jailbreak

my biggest reason, IT'S ON VERIZON!!. ATT sucks on Long Island, NY

The iPhone is great, had it for the last 3 years but ATT is killing me, especially lately, it seems like it is getting worse. Where I work I pretty much have no service or very little and my boss was getting a little pissed that he couldn't reach me a lot (which was fine with me, LOL)

So now please tell me, what about the iPhone do you like over android os?
 
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BriChi said:
ohhhh ill take this one:

ANDROID:
gps is A LOT better

multiple scenes so you can setup all 7 screens for work releated stuff, then setup another whole scene with 7 other screens for weekend play stuff

highr MP camera

user replaceable/upgradeable battery (doesnt matter to me but some people like that they can swap batteries if they are heavy users)

widgets are awesome, I have a calender widget on a page, and a friendstream one which links my F.B. and twitter accounts to one and keeps the stream updated instead of having to go into the actual twitter or fb app just to see updates

weather app is pretty cool too with live updates, when you wake the phone it will actually play an animation based on where you are, either rain will fall, clouds will pass by the screen, it's silly but it looks cool..

Speaker quality blows the iPhones away IMO

pinch to bring out all pages and quickly jump to another is fast and easy whan you want to jump quickly to a certain page, simply pinch the screen, all 7 pages come up and you tap on the page you want to go to

can plug into any computer as a mass storage device

Amazon MP3 store app is great, better then the iTunes one IMO

Tether for free without having to hack/jailbreak

my biggest reason, IT'S ON VERIZON!!. ATT sucks on Long Island, NY

The iPhone is great, had it for the last 3 years but ATT is killing me, especially lately, it seems like it is getting worse. Where I work I pretty much have no service or very little and my boss was getting a little pissed that he couldn't reach me a lot (which was fine with me, LOL)

So now please tell me, what about the iPhone do you like over android os?
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Are you stupid? 80% of that stuff you said are about hardware and nothing to do with android os.
 
Stang68 said:
Yeah, I will STILL be surprised when this is announced. I am on Verizon and would have most definitely purchased an iPhone if it came sooner. But I jumped on the Android wagon and am very happy. I can't even use my iPod touch anymore, I just prefer Android OS. However, the iPhone is still an excellent device...please don't flame :eek:
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Really? I have the iPhone 4 and MyTouch 4G and the Andriod phone, while more reliable for calling in many areas where AT&T is weak, the user experience on the iPhone is still better to me. I do not like the browser in the MyTouch.

I do like the fact I can download files directly to the SD card on the MyTouch and browse those files. If Apple/AT&T would give us a bit more file access and simple, free WiFi sharing I would rarely use this myTouch.

Cheers,
 
goobot said:
Are you stupid? 80% of that stuff you said are about hardware and nothing to do with android os.
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nope not stupid, the stupid people are the ones that suck steve jobs cock and praise the iPhone, those were lists on why my Android phone kills your crappy iPhone 4. Taking hardware out:

gps is A LOT better

multiple scenes so you can setup all 7 screens for work releated stuff, then setup another whole scene with 7 other screens for weekend play stuff

widgets are awesome, I have a calender widget on a page, and a friendstream one which links my F.B. and twitter accounts to one and keeps the stream updated instead of having to go into the actual twitter or fb app just to see updates

weather app is pretty cool too with live updates, when you wake the phone it will actually play an animation based on where you are, either rain will fall, clouds will pass by the screen, it's silly but it looks cool..

pinch to bring out all pages and quickly jump to another is fast and easy whan you want to jump quickly to a certain page, simply pinch the screen, all 7 pages come up and you tap on the page you want to go to

can plug into any computer as a mass storage device

Amazon MP3 store app is great, better then the iTunes one IMO

Tether for free without having to hack/jailbreak


still, how is IOS better? still havent heard that end
 
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BriChi said:
nope not stupid, the stupid people are the ones that suck steve jobs cock and praise the iPhone, those were lists on why my Android phone kills your crappy iPhone 4. Taking hardware out:

gps is A LOT better

multiple scenes so you can setup all 7 screens for work releated stuff, then setup another whole scene with 7 other screens for weekend play stuff

widgets are awesome, I have a calender widget on a page, and a friendstream one which links my F.B. and twitter accounts to one and keeps the stream updated instead of having to go into the actual twitter or fb app just to see updates

weather app is pretty cool too with live updates, when you wake the phone it will actually play an animation based on where you are, either rain will fall, clouds will pass by the screen, it's silly but it looks cool..

pinch to bring out all pages and quickly jump to another is fast and easy whan you want to jump quickly to a certain page, simply pinch the screen, all 7 pages come up and you tap on the page you want to go to

can plug into any computer as a mass storage device

Amazon MP3 store app is great, better then the iTunes one IMO

Tether for free without having to hack/jailbreak


still, how is IOS better? still havent heard that end
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You forgot the part about Android having viruses. You can download software for it from 3rd party websites. Plus, much of what you said is personal preference. iOS is still a very smooth and very functional OS, packed with features. I wouldn't like many of Android's features, because I'm used to the iOS look and feel. You got used to the Android's look and feel, and most likely wouldn't enjoy the iOS look and feel. It's that simple: Personal preference.

EDIT: Also, as steve correctly pointed out, megapixels isn't all that matters. The iPhone's 5 megapixel camera often takes better pictures than android phones with higher megapixels. I'm not saying it's this way on all Android phones, but at least some aren't as good at focusing on things closeup as the iPhone is, which in some situations can make a huge difference, and then there's the backside illuminated sensor.
 
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Exactly, most is personal preference, but people say iphone is packed with features but never list them, what feature is it packed with that you can't do on android phones? And of course it's smooth, they had years to perfect it like that, the droid may lag sometimes but its still fairly new, my original iPhone was no where near as smooth as the current one, and the new iOS sucks on my wifes 3GS and is horrible on my 3G I leave laying around to play with as an iPod. And as far as the new one, if they would have fixed the antenna issue without only giving out free cases, maybe I wouldn't have returned it and looked into droid, giving me a bumper is not a fix for the phone, you might as well have sent me a piece of tape
 
Tethering is not free on verizon either so it's not a carrier issue, because apple is so locked down, they don't allow the free tethering app, the droid allows you to download a tethering app that allows you to tether for free even though verizon wants to charge you for it. So what's not fair is how steve jobs wants to tell you how you should use your phone, if you jailbreak the iPhone you can tether for free so again it has nothing to do with the difference in carriers, it's a phone thing.
 
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I feel like kids fighting each other to see if windows and osx is better.

If u don't lime your iPhone, switch to androids or whatever that make you happy.
If u like the iPhone, use it.

Some people like the iPhone because they like good apps and quality control. Some people don't give a rat about quality because they want to overclock their android. It's all personal preferences.



YOU DON'T HAVE TO BASH OTHERS TO MAKE YOU FEEL THAT YOU'RE BETTER BECAUSE YOU USE ANDROID OR IOS.
 
BriChi said:
ohhhh ill take this one:

ANDROID:
gps is A LOT better

multiple scenes so you can setup all 7 screens for work releated stuff, then setup another whole scene with 7 other screens for weekend play stuff

highr MP camera

user replaceable/upgradeable battery (doesnt matter to me but some people like that they can swap batteries if they are heavy users)

widgets are awesome, I have a calender widget on a page, and a friendstream one which links my F.B. and twitter accounts to one and keeps the stream updated instead of having to go into the actual twitter or fb app just to see updates

weather app is pretty cool too with live updates, when you wake the phone it will actually play an animation based on where you are, either rain will fall, clouds will pass by the screen, it's silly but it looks cool..

Speaker quality blows the iPhones away IMO

pinch to bring out all pages and quickly jump to another is fast and easy whan you want to jump quickly to a certain page, simply pinch the screen, all 7 pages come up and you tap on the page you want to go to

can plug into any computer as a mass storage device

Amazon MP3 store app is great, better then the iTunes one IMO

Tether for free without having to hack/jailbreak

my biggest reason, IT'S ON VERIZON!!. ATT sucks on Long Island, NY

The iPhone is great, had it for the last 3 years but ATT is killing me, especially lately, it seems like it is getting worse. Where I work I pretty much have no service or very little and my boss was getting a little pissed that he couldn't reach me a lot (which was fine with me, LOL)

So now please tell me, what about the iPhone do you like over android os?
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okay thanks,
like that other guy said I was wondering about android OS.
so for the tings you told me that were about the OS thanks,

I haven't used android OS much, what is that 7 screens thing you were talking about? sorry if i sound like an idiot.
 
BriChi said:
Tethering is not free on verizon either so it's not a carrier issue, because apple is so locked down, they don't allow the free tethering app, the droid allows you to download a tethering app that allows you to tether for free even though verizon wants to charge you for it. So what's not fair is how steve jobs wants to tell you how you should use your phone, if you jailbreak the iPhone you can tether for free so again it has nothing to do with the difference in carriers, it's a phone thing.
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If your carrier does not allow for free tethering and you do it anyway, you are in violation of your contract. Sorry, but neither platform is going to provide that for you by default.

Android may make it easier, but the iPhone provides the frameworks just like Android does. But if you have to violate your contract, its not a very good argument.

Free tethering is not an advertised feature of either platform.
 
No problem, glad the info was helpful. The 7 screen thing is on the htc phones along with droid os called htc sense ui, if you YouTube it you can see some vids on how it works

@lincolntran,
All in all, i agree with lincolntran, just dont like someone calling me stupid when i am listing things i like about my current phone, especially when i am very far from stupid. Believe it or not I like both os', on one hand I love what droid offers over the iPhone but I also love how smooth and user friendly the iPhone is, and of course how nice the hardware is, I just wish sometimes apple would open up a little on the app store and let some stuff through that would not harm the phone in any way. When the iPhone comes to verizon, may have to look into it again and see if they fixed any outstanding issues it has. I had to dump it by me because AT&T is pretty bad, was dropping calls everyday

@pdjudd
I know it is, but who follows every rule on their contract, hell even jail breaking breaks apples rules but I know plenty of people who do it for the free tethering. I'll take the chance breaking a rule that I won't get caught on to save $15-$20 a month when I am already paying ridiculous prices for a data plan. They're screwing us on the pricing so it serves them right to get screwed by some of their customers in return :)
 
Stang68 said:
Yeah, I will STILL be surprised when this is announced. I am on Verizon and would have most definitely purchased an iPhone if it came sooner. But I jumped on the Android wagon and am very happy. I can't even use my iPod touch anymore, I just prefer Android OS. However, the iPhone is still an excellent device...please don't flame :eek:
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People, he said please dont flame! It is his opinion. So stop the name calling and junk! On a side note I love my iPhone and how everybody in my school is jealous because "it's the iPhone!" but after 2 years (3GS and 4) I'm getting kinda bored with the os. Don't flame just my opion
 
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