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NY Times Confirms Verizon iPhone for Next Year
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I will never buy a Verizon iPhone. It's CDMA. YOU CANT USE IT IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. It doesn't use SIM cards or anything like it!! Forget resale value. Forget international travel.
Verizon iPhone = useless America-centric brick
Verizon iPhone = useless America-centric brick
No one blames you! But this is happening. And its not because wsj or ign or ny times said so!
Yea totally useless!!!! Because it only works in the county I live in! It only works in the country I never leave!
All of the many iPhone leaks about Verizon from several sources, verifies once and for all, Apple would not have been happy with Verizon for the past five years, and that the NSA compatible AT&T was a better fit.
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What's the difference between this 'announcement' and all the other rumours?
I do believe a Verizon iPhone is coming soon however. Apple should be feeling the pressure of Android right about now. However, I still don't get why they don't open up the app store more to useful apps like Firefox, which was announced recently for Android. What difference does it make to Apple if someone uses someone else's browser on their phone?
I do believe a Verizon iPhone is coming soon however. Apple should be feeling the pressure of Android right about now. However, I still don't get why they don't open up the app store more to useful apps like Firefox, which was announced recently for Android. What difference does it make to Apple if someone uses someone else's browser on their phone?
British by any chance?
Most Americans don't leave the country much. At least when I do, I don't use my phone while enjoying the view of a country I never been to. Anyhow, at least I can text while oversees. What a lame comment, sir.
I was content with AT&T until recently. I've been doing more traveling and their network sucks, especially out on the road. At school it's fine, but I live across from a tower. At home it has been getting worse. I looked up the towers, and in my part of the KC metro there are about 2-3 towers for our entire town. This makes the antenna reception issue worse. Is the contract termination fee with AT&T prorated? I wouldn't upgrade until "iPhone 5", but that would be a hard sell without 4g (I don't see 4g chips being introduced unless they are better at power conservation), bump to 64gb, dual antennas and wireless payments (RFID chips). Titanium iPhone Apple! Make it happen. Transparent to radio signals and strong! Also the graphics chipset on the iPhone could use a boost. Retina display slows things down a touch. Of course a dual-core chip would also help!
Until Apple starts making non-glass-back-iPhones again like they used to, there is not a chance in hell I will buy another iPhone anyway. Be it AT&T or Verizon. Not that I have anything against Apple, it's just that I wonder what the next move will be. Computers made of glass? Motorbikes and cars made of glass?
I will point out that Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between U.S. based Verizon Communications (55% share) and British mobile operator Vodafone (45% share).
So if you think Verizon Wireless sucks, the Brits shoulder a fair amount of the responsibility.
However, I understand your sentiment. There's no way in hell I'll ever own a CDMA handset.
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I'm not surprised at all, it's been long overdue. I wish the competition is much larger like making it available to T-Mobile & Sprint too. I'm sticking with GSM but it doesn't mean I like AT&T.
I'm not surprised at all, it's been long overdue. I wish the competition is much larger like making it available to T-Mobile & Sprint too. I'm sticking with GSM but it doesn't mean I like AT&T.
Nope. And nothing for Verizon. And nothing for Sprint. Nothing is confirmed, these are all rumors.
That said, in every country where Apple has end carrier exclusivity, the iPhone has showed up on another GSM/UTMS-based mobile operator. If Apple ends carrier exclusivity, the most logical step would be to let T-Mobile USA carry the handset.
Note that T-Mobile is an official iPhone carrier in something like seven or eight European markets including T-Mobile's home country (Germany where they are the exclusive carrier). Based on this strong partnership, it would be likely that Apple offers the handset to the US T-Mobile subsidiary.
When would they do this? Maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe next year.
If you want solid facts, you'll know when they're available because tech media will have major articles that point to corporate press releases and company websites.
OK. All of us here knows how secretive Apple is. There is no way anyone has inside information on Apple. We've been hearing about "inside information" on a Verizon iPhone for YEARS now. This is probably just another one of those fake leaks Apple is famous for.
I'd love a Verizon iPhone, and I think Apple wants nothing more than to have one (after all, that's the only reason they are losing market share to Android) but Apple needs to tell me officially before I believe it.
I'd love a Verizon iPhone, and I think Apple wants nothing more than to have one (after all, that's the only reason they are losing market share to Android) but Apple needs to tell me officially before I believe it.
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Darn, and I just upgraded yesterday.
Darn, and I just upgraded yesterday.
If you want another carrier so bad then move to australia, you can choose to have your iphone on Telstra, Optus, 3, Virgin, Vodafone....
I don't know about that. Everything Apple has done in the last five years has made it's way onto this site well before release.
I've never really bought into these rumors. But now that both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are reporting it's finally going to happen, it's hard to ignore.
In November 2006, two months before Jobs presented the first iPhone to a mostly sleeping world, a tech magazine reported that Foxconn was beginning production:
"Foxconn Electronics, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics equipment, will reportedly manufacture and ship 12 million of the so-called Apple iPhone devices, ..."
Nowadays, with the iPhone well known, and leaks all over, it's even more believable that such information would get out.
Jump on the "make believe" bandwagon. If your service is so bad with the iPhone and AT&T, why don't you switch carriers and quit complaining about it and posting stupid comments?
Here is something important to know that came from Verizon Wireless new CEO Lowell McAdam this week
"McAdam said such stories "roll out every few weeks" and that Apple would be the one to make such an announcement"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/10/verizon_wireless_ceo_wont_conf.html
"McAdam said such stories "roll out every few weeks" and that Apple would be the one to make such an announcement"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/10/verizon_wireless_ceo_wont_conf.html
Here is something else regarding Verizon, their keynote speech at CES 2011, and them launching 4G phones during
http://portal.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/10/8/verizon-launch-six-4g-phones-ces/