This phone is GSM so it won't work with Verizon anyways. They would have to come out with a whole new phone that does CDMA. Not really that hard, but it still another assembly line.
The iPhone has a full Safari web browser built in and should give as good web access as any other device out there. However initial reports from some hands-on at CES was that while the multi-touch navigation was sweet the web broswer kinda sucked. Not sure if that was a signal strength thing or whether they still need to do some tweaking. On 1/11/07, Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not only that, but Verizon has introduced, or is in the process of, their own music download service. The iTunes phone directly competes with that. It's highly unlikely that Apple would make a VCast compatible version of the phone. I'm still on the fence about wanting this phone. On one hand, it's sexy as well. On the other, I don't know how well I would be able to use it outside of it being an iPod Phone. If I am going to have a $500+ device, it had better sync with Exchange, have decent web access, etc. As far as I know, the only push email service for it is Yahoo mail. Brian Weeden wrote: > They have announced releases in Asia and Europe in the latter part of > 2007 and 2008 so it can't be just Cingular. Maybe they will be > picking one provider per market. > > The biggest thing is that the phone is a quad-band GSM. That means no > Verizon because it uses a CDMA network. It makes sense for Apple to > go with GSM because CDMA is US only. Just about every country in the > world (with the exception of Japan and a couple places in Africa) have > GSM networks so their one device will be usable world-wide.
-- Brian
