With the holiday shopping season upon us, launching the Verizon iPhone within the next week would make a huge amount of sense to everyone but AT&T, which is probably why there's a rumor going around that November 9 is the day. However, "confirmed reports" on the Verizon iPhone have consistently said early 2011.
The source of the November 9 rumors is a leaked Verizon document concerning the launch of an "Iconic Device" that day, which certainly could describe a Verizon iPhone. However, it's far more likely the document is referring to the Motorola Droid Pro, especially considering our sibling site, Android Central, got their mechanical little hands on another document that says just that. (See above).
I know lots of you are waiting anxiously for a Verizon iPhone, but I still think we'll need to see Steve Jobs hold one up on stage first, maybe at a special event all it's own, maybe as part of an iPad 2 introduction event in January or February 2011.
Are you tired of being teased yet?
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Verizon iPhone probably not coming next week
I, for one, will dump AT&T for Verizon on day 1 regardless of which iPhone (3, 4 or 5) is available. I am a former Verizon customer of 10 years that regrefully got into bed with AT&T only because of iPhone. iPhone rules, AT&T drools
Ok, so I was just sternly reproached by an Apple Store employee for even breathing the thought that Verizon might be getting an iPhone. They threatened to take away my Apple ID and all my Mac SE from 1986....
That Apple is not money hungry??? whatever! its a monopoly...Why would Steve Jobs start selling an Ipad without front facing cam and Iphone 4 with it??? for the same reason! MONEY!!!! Now Ipad2 will be out with facetime for a reason...more money! VZW and SJ need to get it ASAP...
fireside Verizons CDMA is compatiple with Chinas CDMA i have usedmy verizon phone in China.
MAybe the Verizon Iphone will be a "world phone" which is what verizone calls their phones that will work on both CDMA and GSM where CDMA is not available. My blackberry tour is a world phone
Coming out on my Birthday, how cool is that.
Seriously who cares !!!! Version sucks !!!!! Anyway my gosh !!!!CDMA are u kidding me !!! Nerds !! The koo nerds know that this is not gonna happen ! U guys are worse then girls !! Gossip session !! Dude go get some chicks and party ! Threes an app for that !!
NO VERIZON GET THROUGH YOUR HEADS !!!!!
@cardfan: You obviously don't know Apple. It's their phone, and it's their time to show it off. Verizon can not announce the product itself. Apple will be doing the same exact treatment as with what they did with AT&T. I'll provide the phone, you'll provide the service. Do what you gotta do, And so will we. That's why At&t never does iPhone commercials or special iPhone sales. Thats apples job to do that. It not about money, it's about doing business under the 'Apple Book'.
Apple has $51 billion in the bank.
Can't they give AT&T $1 billion to cancel the exclusivity contract?
Apple had $8.8 billion in revenue from the iPhone alone last quarter... they will make that money back in no time.
I agree with cardfan, an iPhone being released for Verizon Wireless before Christmas would make an insane amount of sales and profits for both companies would go through the roof. firesign3000, I think Apple would wait for LTE to be both on Verizon and AT&T so they can sell both at the same time. LTE is still new/being tested and not even out yet although Verizon's launch date seems to change a lot and they doen't even have LTE phones lined up yet. An LTE iPhone would be useless until 2012 when more LTE towers are available, like the EVO 4G, which was launched too soon as Sprint seems to be slowly rolling out WiMax towers.
@firesign3000 CDMA is going to be around for years and all of Verizons LTE phones will be backwards compatible with CDMA. Look how long ago 3G was released yet all the phones still work on 2G.
Please do us a favor and wait until "you know" about something "for sure" and not when "you think" something is expected. My magic 8 ball has been more accurate then the RSS feeds out there. I'm so tired of it.
Yawn..
@firesign3000 apple isn't going to release an iPhone on a LTE network because it is a newer technology. if you remember, back in 2007 when 3G first started rolling out, Apple instead of jumping the gun, waited until 2008 to bring out the iPhone 3G. they are risk-takers (i.e. iPad) but not crazy
Yeah how early is early 2011? I so can't wait for it!
it's funny that everyone races around the internet picking up rumours left, right and centre and then gets frustrated when the rumours don't happen. Meanwhile apple has a plan and releases products on their original schedule. If I was working for apple I would laugh daily at the frenzy people work themselves up into. Does the phrase 'you are your own worst enemy' ring any bells. ?
The iconic device is definitely the droid pro (which is pretty much the same as all the other 99 droids)
How early is early 2011?
This rumor has gotten out of hand. I don't care who from what publication says about anything. Unless Steve is in stage giving us a Verizon iPhone and a "boom", then it is simply not happening. So stop with the rumors. Damn.
I live in the US, But I think it is awful arrogant of Apple to hold an event for Verizon, I mean have the held an event every time they have released the iPhone on a new carrier elsewhere in the world? No. So why do it here. The US isn't the center of the universe, no matter what we Americans think.
Black Ops already reserved the 9th duh. no one else can release anything on that day.
There will be no VZW iPhone until they roll out their LTE network (which is GSM based. CDMA is going bye bye.).That's not happening yet. By the time they do, AT&T will have their LTE network lit, the exclusivity agreement will end, and both VZW and AT&T will both sell the same version of the iPhone,likely the 5, which will be LTE enabled. There will be no CDMA iPhone for the American market, only the Chinese which is not compatible with American CDMA.
SWITCH*
I want to swtich*
...think I should wait.*
Sorry, I sounded like I just learned English.
I want switch from Verizon to get the iPhone 4 for Christmas, but all this rumor talk is making me think I should. I will hate it though if I wait and nothing at all happens with the official announcement AS USUAL! So annoying! I wish they would just tell us yes OR NO so we can stop wasting our time.
@Amber
Seriously? Don't ever mistake Apple for a company that cares about their customers.
@Amber
I like apple too. But to say Apple isn't money hungry?
Besides, what is so bad that they would be doing? Do people not buy iphone 4's after the new year? Let's not be too sure anyways that V would get the iphone 5 when AT&T does.
@cardfan it doesn't matter what Verizon wants, Apple wouldn't do that to their customers. They're not the money hungry asshole that verizon is.
@Chris
Are you kidding? V would sell a lot of iphone 4's and that's all they care about. Doesn't matter that the iphone 5 would be out in summer.
I'll believe it when I see Steve Jobs holding one up in stage with a Carrier slide show behin him that says AT&T and Verizon. Until then it's not happening.
I agree, they would not release a new CDMA phone without a big press event. Also, no way would Apple allow a presale so far in advance.
god seriously. Iphone will be released NORMAL time next year. Its not going to be january. Verizon would get a BRAND NEW iphone (5) rather than SCREWING their customers by selling them an Iphone 4 when a new one will be coming out 5 months later. makes NO sense.
Recount! I demand a recount!