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iPhone/Verizon? 3G Unlocked?

That is completely untrue. Plus, it's almost surely never going to happen.

Here's why:

1) Apple and AT&T have an exclusive agreement for five years. This means the current iPhone and all the upcoming iPhone models will all be under AT&T (in the US - till 2012 or so).

2) Apple had talks with Verizon to be the official US carrier and were turned down - in fact I believe the Verizon execs laughed at Steve Jobs with the amount of income and freedom of design and cost he wanted. You think he's going to go to them again?

3) The current iPhone works only on GSM networks. Verizon is CDMA based. If Verizon somehow got the iPhone, that would mean a complete shift of iPhone's roadmap.

There are, I'm sure, plenty more reasons the other guys here might know about.

THE REAL SOLUTION: Switch to AT&T when the next-gen iPhone comes out in June (or sometime around then)! :D

-CreativeMac :apple::apple:
 
At no time has anyone from Apple or Verizon given such histories.

According to the Wall Street Journal and others, Apple went to Verizon _after_ approaching Cingular (ATT).

Talks with Verizon dragged on for about a year. When they finally realized they'd never come to an agreement, they parted ways. Then Apple went back to ATT and agreed to an exclusive.

The reasons Verizon gave included: they didn't want to give up their own media sales; they didn't want to give up control over warranty work; they couldn't agree to cutting their current sales partners (BJs, Best Buy, etc) out of the picture. All very understandable business reasons.
 
HAHAAHAHA Verizon LG Voyager....

Cant even compete with iPhone.. They best quit while they ahead...
Good one Trav
 
Verizon is a control freak; they have to put their crappy interface on all phones they sell. What they demanded just didn't jive with Apple's plans and Apple went elsewhere. They gave their parent company Vodaphone a shot at getting back in the game when they opened up the European market. And Apple got the same treatment. I'm guessing they're pretty much finished with trying to do business with Verizon/Vodaphone.
 
will never happen... apple have already signed their exclusive agreement with AT&T SO NOOOOO
 
stockscalper said:
Verizon is a control freak; they have to put their crappy interface on all phones they sell. What they demanded just didn't jive with Apple's plans and Apple went elsewhere.
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Errr... no. The exact opposite happened.

Apple was the "control freak" (and still is, with other carriers). They wanted a monthly royalty, complete control over price and warranty issues, control over app, ringtones, music and video downloads, and control over where the phone was sold. They even refused to allow subsidized prices.

Verizon said no, as have other carriers since then. Currently, China's major telecom is saying no way to Apple royalties.

(Btw, Verizon doesn't muck with most of their smartphone interfaces.)
 
.....China sent one representative to Apple's campus once. Hardly a negotiation, even.

Apple clearly isn't as stringent about subsidized prices now as they used to be, though, given the prices in Europe.

Both Verizon and Apple are control freaks. Not exactly a good foundation for a relationship.
 
Flood verizon email

Personally I am flooding verizon Customer service email once a week with question and request for either the iPhone or something close and NOT the Voyager(Joke) they they have now. :D
 
Good Point

kdarling said:
Errr... no. The exact opposite happened.

Apple was the "control freak" (and still is, with other carriers). They wanted a monthly royalty, complete control over price and warranty issues, control over app, ringtones, music and video downloads, and control over where the phone was sold. They even refused to allow subsidized prices.

Verizon said no, as have other carriers since then. Currently, China's major telecom is saying no way to Apple royalties.

(Btw, Verizon doesn't muck with most of their smartphone interfaces.)
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:eek: Good point because most of there smartphones are Windows Mobile or Blackberry based right? So why could'nt they come to an agreement with Apple? And for those who don't know you cannot buy ALL of the phone's that verizon offers at BB or CC etc. And so what if Apple want's control over downloads I use iTunes and think it's a great system. User freindy and there downloads cost just as much as Get it Now from Verizon.
 
Mr Bean said:
Personally I am flooding verizon Customer service email once a week with question and request for either the iPhone or something close and NOT the Voyager(Joke) they they have now. :D
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But what do you hope to achieve by doing this? Apple has a contract with AT&T regarding the iPhone and how it can't be used on other networks and how Apple will only sell it to AT&T, there is not really anything that Verizon can do about it, all you are going to do is to get your email placed on a block list by Verizon, if they even care to do anything like that.
 
Mr Bean said:
:eek: So why could'nt they come to an agreement with Apple? .
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We don't know all of the details of what happened behind closed doors with Apple and Verizon, but as it stands now, Apple is exclusively with AT&T for the next 5 years (2007-2012). There's not much you can do about it, and constantly e-mailing Verizon isn't going to do anything.
 
JML42691 said:
But what do you hope to achieve by doing this? Apple has a contract with AT&T regarding the iPhone and how it can't be used on other networks and how Apple will only sell it to AT&T, there is not really anything that Verizon can do about it, all you are going to do is to get your email placed on a block list by Verizon, if they even care to do anything like that.
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extraextra said:
We don't know all of the details of what happened behind closed doors with Apple and Verizon, but as it stands now, Apple is exclusively with AT&T for the next 5 years (2007-2012). There's not much you can do about it, and constantly e-mailing Verizon isn't going to do anything.
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As stated in my email iPhone or something like it!!! Well know the Voyager is a Joke. A sad attempt by verizon to compete with one of the top electronics of that year. I think we all know Apple/Verizon will not and can not offer the iPone to verizon customers but something better than the voyager. By stating the iPhone by name lets them know what kind of phone I am looking for. If AT&T did not suck so hard I would just switch. No skin of my back but there network "In my area" sucks and as far as cNet is concerned they where like 3rd overall.even alltel beet them. And I am not only blameing Verizon. I am sure Apple played there part as well.
 
i doubt verizon even cares much
they just won the fcc 700mhz auction and are going to be the number one cell company in the world in a very short time with their new found range.

and they are going to open up their handsets in november of this year. im sure the iphone will be able to hop on to a verizon network at that time, no problem.

personally as nice as the iphone is. it is over hyped. ill probably just pick up an htc touch to go along with my ipod touch and call it good.
putting too much reliance on one product is never really a good idea anyway.
 
anmoldagreat said:
i doubt verizon even cares much
they just won the fcc 700mhz auction and are going to be the number one cell company in the world in a very short time with their new found range.

and they are going to open up their handsets in november of this year. im sure the iphone will be able to hop on to a verizon network at that time, no problem.

personally as nice as the iphone is. it is over hyped. ill probably just pick up an htc touch to go along with my ipod touch and call it good.
putting too much reliance on one product is never really a good idea anyway.
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That 700 Mhz range is US only, not global. AT&T also won a piece of that pie as well. ;)
The FCC is a US entity, not a global one, so they cannot assign anything outside the US. So I fail to see how this will make VZ a bigger player in the global market.
And VZ is opening their network up to other CDMA phones that meet their requirements to be on their network.
Read press releases, don't just skim them. :rolleyes:
 
rjohnstone said:
That 700 Mhz range is US only, not global. AT&T also won a piece of that pie as well. ;)
The FCC is a US entity, not a global one, so they cannot assign anything outside the US. So I fail to see how this will make VZ a bigger player in the global market.
And VZ is opening their network up to other CDMA phones that meet their requirements to be on their network.
Read press releases, don't just skim them. :rolleyes:
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yeh i meant to say us. cell companies vary far too much outside of the states for any one company to make a huge presence.
and i heard that they were not only going to release specs for their own cdma network but also allow gsm phones.
maybe i heard incorrectly though...
 
Huh?

anmoldagreat said:
i doubt verizon even cares much
they just won the fcc 700mhz auction and are going to be the number one cell company in the world in a very short time with their new found range.

and they are going to open up their handsets in november of this year. im sure the iphone will be able to hop on to a verizon network at that time, no problem.

personally as nice as the iphone is. it is over hyped. ill probably just pick up an htc touch to go along with my ipod touch and call it good.
putting too much reliance on one product is never really a good idea anyway.
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Sorry but I have no Idea what you are talking about? What does 700mhz help me as a verizon customer and how would this allow a GSM phone to work on CDMA network? And once again. The CDMA chip can be intigrated into the iPhone to work on the CDMA network but you could not activate it with verizon.
 
JBaker122586 said:
Lol.
They're reporting lies then.
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And your reasoning is?

Everyone knows that back in February, ATT had only activated around 2 million phones, at the same time that Apple has reported sales of 3.7 million. That left 1.7 million, many of which are unlocked. Certainly more now.

And there are huge articles about the mass trade in iPhones going back to China.
 
I have seen Verizon Iphones

There is a group of nerds here in Phx Az who make Verizon iphones for $ 500 not including the phone i have used one these phones the features are the same except that the vcast is used as the internet. I am not sure of the full process but i do know it involvers parts from a Verizon voyager and is fairly simple to i do. They also do memory upgrades.
 
I think that the day of creating a wireless device for a specific carrier is coming to an end. One day every phone sold and used will use the same technology. Carriers will not lock down features of the phone and all will be good.

We don't have to use a specific telephone for one land line company and another for another company...everything just works.
 
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