Actually, according to what I read, it is a hybrid UMTS/CDMA
iPhone made possible by a new hybrid chip from Qualcomm,
so Apple can continue to make a single global iPhone that
will work with all major carriers. The evidence for the phone
is pretty skimpy, I haven't seen any evidence at all that
Apple is going to get in a licensing deal with Verizon, and I
can't see how they are going to handle the mixed message
they would get from having the iPhone capable of different
things on different networks in the US market. Possibly,
Apple would handle this by offering the new iPhone by itself
without a license to any carrier and let the purchaser deal with
their carrier's limitations, or maybe this is all just an insidious
rumor that is intended to blunt Droid sales by encouraging
people to wait for an iPhone. If the latter theory is correct,
the steep price Verizon is now charging for early termination
of smartphone contracts plays right into this strategy.
The idea that Apple might offer the iPhone without a carrier
contract appeals to me. It seems like there is already a pretty
big grey market for iPhones freed from their original carrier
in one way or the other, and I could see that Apple might
like to profit off of that. It's another piece of low-hanging
fruit that Apple can pick without posing a legitimate grievance
to the carriers (assuming that Apple won't be breaking any
contractual exclusivity agreements). It's all just speculation
though.
From: mike <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile
killer)
Apple insider is reporting a taiwanese manufacturer has been hired
to do a
cdma iPhone to be carried on verizon in q3 2010.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:36 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote:
Is there solid word they will get a apple device? With android
making
inroads, do they need one? VZ is also getting another droid
phone, the
eris, this phone got better reviews overall than the moto droid.
Sprint
has
three or four android phones out now, one of them has 8 megabytes
of built
in memory, haven't seen if you can utilize it all for apps or
not. AFter
seeing the offerings of android, I don't see much missing between
the two
choices.
Apple probably won't do Verizon without GSM.
Does Droid do Flash? iPhone doesn't do Flash [without serious
hacking], but
Symbian does.
Can you buy a Droid phone outright without a contract?
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