Will Verizon Offer a CDMA version of the Apple iPhone in 2010?
CDMA iPhone is rumored for India.
Apple is in talks with both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to bring a CDMA version of its
iPhone to India.
The iPhone exclusivity arrangements are ending in both Germany and The Netherlands. In Germany,
Deutsche Telekom loses its exclusive arrangement now that both O2 and Vodafone will be offering Apple's
iPhone before the holidays.
In Holland, T-Mobile just lost its exclusive arrangement as both KPN and Vodafone have announced plans
to carry the iPhone -- no specific dates were mentioned though, like Germany, in time for the holidays is a
pretty good guess.
iPhone is in the works (updated)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/wsj-verizon-to-sell-iphone-in-2011-fifth-generation-iphone-is/
We've been to this rodeo before (a few times, actually), but the smoke that leads to fire is getting far harder to
ignore. Following a Bloomberg report in June that a Verizon iPhone was on track for a January 2011 release
as well as independent confirmation from John Gruber, Yukari Iwatani Kane from The Wall Street Journal
is now sounding mighty confident that the aforementioned plans are true. According to various people
"briefed by Apple," Jobs and Company will begin "mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that
would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year." It'll rely on a key Qualcomm chip as
well as a CDMA radio, but curiously enough, there's nary of a mention of LTE in this report. In closely
related news, it's bruited that Apple is also developing a separate iPhone model, though it's unclear how
soon VZW will be able to grab the fifth generation edition. 'Course, it's not exactly the shocker of the year to
hear that Apple's toiling on a new iPhone without a dubious antenna design, but the real question is this:
will the Verizon iPhone beat AT&T's elusive white iPhone 4 to market? Inquiring minds would love to know.
Update: The WSJ udated the story to be more clear, "Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon
Wireless will sell early next year." So it's not just a generic CDMA iPhone that may or may not end up on
Verizon Wireless. The WSJ also added that the CDMA iPhone 4 variant will be built by Pegatron and would
only work on a CDMA network (i.e., it's not a dual-mode GSM/CDMA device). Also, according to one source,
VZW has been working with Apple to test its network and is adding additional capacity to avoid being
overwhelmed a la AT&T.
Note that Serge Shanin and John Hutsebaut are laughing at Don Martin because Don doesn't believe that
Verizon will offer iPhones in the US before the exclusive contract with AT&T expires.
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CDMA iPhone is rumored for India.
Apple is in talks with both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to bring a CDMA version of its
iPhone to India.
The iPhone exclusivity arrangements are ending in both Germany and The Netherlands. In Germany,
Deutsche Telekom loses its exclusive arrangement now that both O2 and Vodafone will be offering Apple's
iPhone before the holidays.
In Holland, T-Mobile just lost its exclusive arrangement as both KPN and Vodafone have announced plans
to carry the iPhone -- no specific dates were mentioned though, like Germany, in time for the holidays is a
pretty good guess.
iPhone is in the works (updated)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/wsj-verizon-to-sell-iphone-in-2011-fifth-generation-iphone-is/
We've been to this rodeo before (a few times, actually), but the smoke that leads to fire is getting far harder to
ignore. Following a Bloomberg report in June that a Verizon iPhone was on track for a January 2011 release
as well as independent confirmation from John Gruber, Yukari Iwatani Kane from The Wall Street Journal
is now sounding mighty confident that the aforementioned plans are true. According to various people
"briefed by Apple," Jobs and Company will begin "mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that
would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year." It'll rely on a key Qualcomm chip as
well as a CDMA radio, but curiously enough, there's nary of a mention of LTE in this report. In closely
related news, it's bruited that Apple is also developing a separate iPhone model, though it's unclear how
soon VZW will be able to grab the fifth generation edition. 'Course, it's not exactly the shocker of the year to
hear that Apple's toiling on a new iPhone without a dubious antenna design, but the real question is this:
will the Verizon iPhone beat AT&T's elusive white iPhone 4 to market? Inquiring minds would love to know.
Update: The WSJ udated the story to be more clear, "Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon
Wireless will sell early next year." So it's not just a generic CDMA iPhone that may or may not end up on
Verizon Wireless. The WSJ also added that the CDMA iPhone 4 variant will be built by Pegatron and would
only work on a CDMA network (i.e., it's not a dual-mode GSM/CDMA device). Also, according to one source,
VZW has been working with Apple to test its network and is adding additional capacity to avoid being
overwhelmed a la AT&T.
Note that Serge Shanin and John Hutsebaut are laughing at Don Martin because Don doesn't believe that
Verizon will offer iPhones in the US before the exclusive contract with AT&T expires.
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