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WSJ: iPhone on Verizon (Still rumor until they show me the phone)

epik

Mar 30, 2010, 9:52 AM
From The Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304370 ... »

Excerpt below for those behind firewalls:

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE, TING-I TSAI And NIRAJ SHETH

Apple Inc. plans to begin producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers other than AT&T Inc. to sell the iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company.

The new iPhone would work on a type of wireless network called CDMA, these people said. CDMA is used by Verizon Wireless, AT&T's main competitor, as well as Sprint Nextel Corp. and a handful of cellular operators in countries including South Korea and Japan. The vast majority of carriers world-wide, includ
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sparker781

Mar 30, 2010, 11:54 AM
There is only one question....If this is in fact holds true...How well will the Verizon network as it stands right now (not including any new LTE preview areas) will hold up with the whole call and surf the web or will it be able to pull that off?
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Menno

Mar 30, 2010, 7:13 PM
it won't that is a "limitation" of CDMA (at least EVDO) technology. This is not something the Iphone can do special, but rather wcdma/hspa can do it. you can do the same thing on tmo 3g
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Menno

Mar 30, 2010, 1:44 PM
isn't this the same guy who predicted the iphone?
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Menno

Mar 30, 2010, 1:45 PM
WTB edit
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IrishCarBomb

Mar 30, 2010, 7:44 PM
Same guy that had been predicting the iPad for about 10 years, and saying the iPhone will be coming to Verizon for 2 years now.

I won't believe it until Apple announces it. Until then, this is just another WSJ article speculating it will happen... eventually he will be right, I don't see the iPhone never coming to Verizon, but you don't gain any credibility by guessing the same thing every single year.
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Amarantamin

Mar 30, 2010, 9:00 PM
I thought it was already announced?
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WernerCD

Mar 30, 2010, 9:50 PM
WSJ posted an article, that basically said Apple hasn't confirmed anything... this article says the opposite, while also not confirming anything with Apple.

Which turd do you choose to accept?
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vzw76

Mar 30, 2010, 10:29 PM
That last line sounds like a great motto for life! 😁
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WernerCD

Mar 30, 2010, 11:40 PM
Has my place smellIng quiet ripe... Followed by more apple hype crap... And me bored as hell. Thoughts blended together. 🙂
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