They wont shrink the screen size. They spent years pining over what would be best and it's proven to be a winner. There's no point in switching to a smaller screen, this is just a bogus rumor.
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Apple to Manufacture Verizon-Compatible iPhone in Q3 2010?
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Honestly. Remember all the fuss over Apple having a "kill switch". How much more irresponsible would they be if they didn't have one? How much more irresponsible would it be if Google didn't? We're going to see a fairly nasty Android trojan at some point. Teamed up with Google, it's going to multi-task its way into your worst privacy nightmare. Just saying. I'm sure it keeps them up at night trying to calculate what exploit vector it will use.
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Don't forget you will have a $350 termination fee plus $2.99 for visual voicemail. Tethering also costs an extra 30 bucks. I know AT&T doesn't offer it, but 30 is still a little high I think.
iPhone coverage?
I'll be getting my first iPhone this year for Christmas, switching to AT&T from T-Mobile, who right now has been terrible for the entire family. My brother goes to school up in Quinnapiac Conn. and I live down in NJ, hearing all of this bad service stuff is making me hesitant though, hopefully we have good service because I can't wait to get an iPhone.
I'll be getting my first iPhone this year for Christmas, switching to AT&T from T-Mobile, who right now has been terrible for the entire family. My brother goes to school up in Quinnapiac Conn. and I live down in NJ, hearing all of this bad service stuff is making me hesitant though, hopefully we have good service because I can't wait to get an iPhone.
Exactly my experience as well, except I actually have an iPhone and a Verizon phone. If I want to make calls, I use the Verizon (an LG Decoy).
Wasting everyones time
Yes they are wasting our time when you can tell they hate Apple.
Yes they are wasting our time when you can tell they hate Apple.
A new report from OTR Global relayed by AppleInsider indicates that Apple is planning on manufacturing new hybrid iPhones that will support both Verizon's CDMA2000 network as well as the UMTS 3G network. Only the UMTS network is supported by the current version of the iPhone and is used by AT&T and much of the rest of the world. The reason behind building in such support would seem primarily to extend the iPhone's compatibility with Verizon in the U.S. The move is expected to take place by the 3rd quarter of 2010. Conveniently, AT&T's exclusivity contract with Apple is believed to expire in mid 2010.
The report also indicates the new phones will also shrink in size from 3.5" to 2.8" diagonally. Curiously, this is not the first time the possibility of a 2.8" iPhone has emerged with iLounge previously publishing photos of 2.8" screens that were believed to be for use in future Apple devices.
Article Link: Apple to Manufacture Verizon-Compatible iPhone in Q3 2010?
Shrink
I am done also if they shrink the screen. I think it should get a little bigger than smaller.
I am done also if they shrink the screen. I think it should get a little bigger than smaller.
If true (very doubtful) -- I'll buy it! Screen size shrinking blah blah blah ...
If we recall, the three biggest issues with AT&T are: 1. Coverage 2. Coverage 3. Coverage. Remember this week's post regarding AT&T's suit over the map ad? Screen size is nothing and a slightly smaller iPhone (doubtful) would be a slight blessing. As for the AT&T handshake -- shame on Apple for even putting user into the lowest bracket of coverage/service quality.
If we recall, the three biggest issues with AT&T are: 1. Coverage 2. Coverage 3. Coverage. Remember this week's post regarding AT&T's suit over the map ad? Screen size is nothing and a slightly smaller iPhone (doubtful) would be a slight blessing. As for the AT&T handshake -- shame on Apple for even putting user into the lowest bracket of coverage/service quality.
I want a larger screen, not a smaller one.... I can barely play Solitaire as it is without bumping the wrong card half the time.
Try using the MacRumors Forum Spy on your iPhone.
It's one of the hardest games I've ever played.
You are correct, an unlocked iPhone can still use the AppStore, but it loses push notification.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/using_an_unlocked_iphone_you_can_forget_about_push.php
Yep, this proves it.
Does the anonymity of the internet make people dumb, or do lots of dumb people use the internet?
1. Doesn't make sense at all.
2. Huh?!? That the iPhone will migrate to Verizon is somehow a given? I don't know if it will or won't anymore than the next guy, but in no way is it a given based on the information we currently have.
It'll be a given when they announce it.
I live near Apple (which is in Cupertino, CA near San Jose and San Francisco) and this issue has been in the news a lot, especially on KGO news on tv and on the radio in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Andrew Gore, who used to work for Macworld is now KGO's tech/computer news advisor who keeps Silicon Valley up to date with rumors and inventions. He seems to have the bead on what's going on at Apple.
When SJ was asked about this, he got very defensive, similar in the way he did when he was asked about iPods working with PCs (before it was announced) and flat screen iMacs (when Time Canada leaked it) and pictures got onto Macrumors the day before the public announcement by SJ.
We will see what happens.
Has everyone forgotten this?
Read the third paragraph:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2007-05-21-at&t-iphone_N.htm
Read the third paragraph:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2007-05-21-at&t-iphone_N.htm
I would think that AT&T will fight to hang onto this.
Apple could try to say it's a contract of adhesion. But from the bare facts of what I know, there seemed to have been the four elements of a contract (Offer, Offer Open, Consideration, and Acceptance) when the contract was signed in December, 2005. I will see if there are any exceptions or red flag on Lexis or Westlaw databases.
Under ordinary circumstances, Apple would have to pay a penalty if they got out of this more than a year early. I can't see a Judge favoring Apple if all the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted.
The only way a company can call on the exception of adhesion is if one company is much bigger than the other or has unequal bargaining force. Lawyers can spin this either way.
If Apple wants to, and gets Verizon, AT&T can sue under a theory of alternate theory of recovery via Promissory Estoppel. There appears to be detrimental reliance here. This is assuming a simple breach of contract does not work.
Let's see how this all plays out.
Ditto a one good for all carrier is a fantastic idea.
But ANY size smaller screen and I'd dump Apple stock quicker than anything,unbelivable.
If anything should be a tad bigger, and OLED.
Their competition has bigger screens with even higher resolution.
Heck I'd even opt for a couple mm thicker so they can have a bigger battery.
But ANY size smaller screen and I'd dump Apple stock quicker than anything,unbelivable.
If anything should be a tad bigger, and OLED.
Their competition has bigger screens with even higher resolution.
Heck I'd even opt for a couple mm thicker so they can have a bigger battery.
I'm sure JailBroken CDMA phones will pop up for sure, if this actually happens.
To bad i just signed another agreement with VZW yesterday afternoon. But wouldn't you know it, i got home was setting up my Droid Eries, then jumped to Gizmodo on my laptop; and what do you think the first headline was.... iPhone coming to Verizon Q3 2010.
Go figure.