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iPhone Coming to Verizon
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Apple is definitely looking to increase those iPhone sales, so Verizon iPhone is definitely in the works...
All I keep visualizing, is that when ....
I tell ya, it's gonna be a real mess.
- Verizon gets the iPhone,
- the iSlab comes with a stylus,
- and Safari defaults to Bing,
I tell ya, it's gonna be a real mess.
1. Not anytime soon
2. I don't think a stylus with the tablet will be much of a great idea.... not after the whole multi-touch in the iPhone using only your finger.
3. I can see this; however, Google will be defaulted back on mine.
At least bing won't be the only option for
search like the trick verizon pulled on all their blackberys.
I should've added a smilie. The list was meant to poke fun at those who thought Apple would never do something, just because they aren't doing that something right now.
Like support MMS. Or move to Intel. Or add video to iPods. Or allow third party apps. Every one of those now common items had lots of people claiming it would never happen because of some perceived Apple dislike of such things.
Looking forward to seeing the 27th come and go and the new iPhone release come and go with nothing about Verizon and the VZ fanboys will make all kinds of excuses why it's ok that they didn't get an iPhone.
They will stick to can you hear me now and there's a map for that commercials
They will stick to can you hear me now and there's a map for that commercials
I'm not sure about it coming to Verizon...I'd be interested for sure. Also I'd like to see it on T Mobile
Then people would just started speculating on if / when the iPhone will go to T-Mobile / Sprint... It will never end, really.
Yup. I heard it direct from Sr. Exec. at VZW (no names
). They have already expedited the expansion of the 4G LTE network in preparation.
Yup. I heard it direct from Sr. Exec. at VZW (no names
Until Verizon or Apple officially announces it, I don't believe anything
I actually want to see this too. Plus hope like hell that the iPhone goes to Verizon so i can get off this crap network. I lived 20 minutes from Dallas and my calls drop LITERALLY every other call, and the second call is always calling someone back after the call dropped to begin with.
Something like this (not exact):
Verizon... 89 million = 33%
ATT........ 82 million = 30%
Sprint..... 48 million = 18%
TMobile... 34 million = 13%
others..... 17 million = 06%
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Total: 270 million
Basically, Apple has ignored 70% of the US market up to now. That's ~188 million cell phone users. If 12% of those bought an iPhone, it would be as much as the total world 3GS sales so far.
Thanks, but I don't get my news from a network that reports on tweets.
FTW! As someone who actually works in the news media, CNN irks me with it's stupid "iReporter" crap. Who knows if these people are telling the truth? That's the whole point of people going to school and then working for a company whose reputation gets built over time.
OK, that's enough of my off-topic rant.
Some more Verizon iPhone predictions/rumors:
http://www.pmptoday.com/2010/01/25/verizon-iphone-4g-s-imminent-good-bye-att-exclusivity/
http://www.pmptoday.com/2010/01/25/verizon-iphone-4g-s-imminent-good-bye-att-exclusivity/
Well, the *idea* with exclusivity was, at least in part, to give the exclusive carrier the opportunity to roll some of the $$ that comes with being the exclusive carrier of the world's most popular phone into infrastructure improvements to support it (and its ever-increasing user base)....
...the best laid plans.
At this point, given the failure of the AT&T exclusive experiment (I wonder about this, actually; whether Apple just chose a bad partner or whether the exclusivity agreement was not structured well enough to mandate the infrastructure improvements), it makes significantly less sense. At this point, if I'm Apple, I'm looking for a way out of my deal with AT&T to try and strike agreements with as many carriers as possible.
If a VZW iPhone happens (and, for the record, I'm in the camp that finds that unlikely), think about what that means for VZW:
1. Best network (this is somewhat debatable, but not much).
2. iPhone
3. Nexus One
4. Droid
That's a recipe for smartphone dominance.
If the iPhone goes to Verizon, Apple is going to have to explain to all the VZW iPhone customers why their iPhone can't do voice and data at the same time like seen in the commercials. It seems rather stupid for Apple to make those commercials touting that feature of the iPhone knowing that if the iPhone goes to Verizon, the commercial will no longer be true.