John Gruber adds some more credence to a number of reports which have the iPhone coming to Verizon in early 2011. I don’t know anything about negotiations with Verizon, and I doubt anyone does other than the highest-level executives at both companies. But I do know that engineering-wise, the wheels are turning on N92, the CDMA [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
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Corroborating earlier reports regarding a slew of new devices from Apple, Digitimes analyst Mingchi Kuo reports that Apple is preparing to launch a 7-inch iPad with the new ARM Cortex A9 based processor during the first quarter of 2011. The smaller device will reportedly sport a resolution of 1024×768 and will include the same IPS [...]
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TechCrunch reports: Sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured me that Apple has submitted orders for millions of units of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets for a Verizon iPhone run due in December. This production run would likely be for a January launch, and I’d bet the phone is nearly 100% consistent with the current iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 8, 2010
With Apple still attempting to recover from the public relations fiasco resulting from antenna issues on the new iPhone 4, Verizon decided to have a little bit of fun at Apple’s expense in the form of a new full page ad for the upcoming Droid X which first appeared in the New York Times. One of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 3, 2010
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BGR reports that Verizon, starting on November 15th, will begin rolling out its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in 25 markets which will soon be followed by a “slew of new devices” available on Black Friday, November 26th. “While 25 markets might not sound like a lot,” the report notes, “apparently they’re enough to give 100 million [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 29, 2010
We have another Verizon/iPhone rumor on our hands, but instead of coming from some no-name analyst looking to attain free publicity, this one comes from Bloomberg. Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Yet another iPhone/Verizon opinion to add to the collection. Barclays Capital analyst James Ratcliffe writes: Channel checks by our communications equipment and semiconductor research partners give us greater confidence that Verizon will get an iPhone in early 2011, and we are now incorporating that belief into our models for AT&T and Verizon. And while AT&T’s handling of the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Echoing a report from earlier this May, DigiTimes is reporting that Pegatron Technology has received its iPhone 4 orders from Apple and that the company is planning to deliver a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 to Apple in the fourth quarter of 2010. Sources tell DigiTimes that the phones are being manufactured at its [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Move over Verizon, T-Mobile may be jumping to the front of the line in the ongoing race amongst carriers to join AT&T as a heralded iPhone provider. In recently issued research report, analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Brothers writes that T-Mobile may start carrying the iPhone by 2011, and as early as this fall. Much like [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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During Monday’s WWDC Keynote, Steve Jobs’ iPhone 4 demo hit a few bumps in the road when network trouble arose. When Jobs asked his right-hand man Scott Forstall if had any ideas how to fix it, a brazen young fellow shouted out, “Verizon!” Though Jobs would soon retort that they were on wi-fi, he couldn’t help but [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 3, 2010
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Beet.tv recently asked Verizon spokesman John Johnson about the prospects of the iPhone hitting Verizon. As expected, Johnson dismissed the question before moving on to discuss “exciting” Android devices. Q: Let me ask you first of all about Verizon and the iPhone. What is happening, if anything? What is the status? A: No one ever asks that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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Citing a highly placed source, Boy Genius Report has learned that Verizon is currently testing the iPad on its CDMA network According to a highly placed source of ours, Verizon Wireless is currently testing Apple iPad devices on their network. We have been told that the model they are testing is a CDMA-compatible device, and while [...]
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
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