According to a source we believe to be familiar with the matter:
• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• Formal announcement coming right “after christmas”, was
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; “Apparently ATT’s final demand so as to maximize ATT’s Christmas iPhone sales”
• The Verizon iPhone will be immediately available upon formal announcement
• Device has been “100% cooked for quite a while” and already shipping in bulk to Verizon warehouses
• The Verizon iPhone is not being shipped to any 3rd-party retailers in an effort to control leaks
• Verizon agreed to take 100% responsibility for security, so all the devices will be in their hands until the official announcement date, and they will then distribute thru channels in massive manner (hence early stockpiling)
• The new iPhone is an LTE device and that fact – the only “LTE iPhone,” exclusive to Verizon – will be the main marketing theme; i.e. “For the new ‘4G’ (cough) verizon network” that Verizon has already started promoting
• As rollout of LTE not actually widepsread, Verizon iPhone will have multi-band chip backward compatibility with regular CDMA
• iPhone 5 was planned to debut in summer as LTE-only, for all contracted carriers, but the clock is ticking and nobody thinks either Verizon or AT&T can get to critical mass to offer an LTE-only version
• Steve Jobs is said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly
• Apple is “helping” U.S. carriers (money?) to build out LTE more quickly
MacDailyNews Note: The above information is from a sole source that we believe to be credible, but should be treated as rumor, since we cannot independently confirm the information at this time.
[UPDATE: 10:20am EDT; Fixed typo, added quoted info to bullet point #4, added quotes to bullet #6]
So Apple turns over security to Verizon *AND* Verizon has already screwed it up by letting this rumor out. Right.
Let’s assume this talk of an LTE iPhone 4 is true, then ask why Apple would bother?
If you make a device, and demand outpaces supply by a wide margin, why would you bother spending money, and diverting manufacturing capacity, to make a stop-gap device to work on another network? You can’t possibly sell more devices because you are limited by your manufacturing capacity, so you can’t possibly make any more money than you are now.
Instead you are just dividing your manufacturing capacity, and losing your mass-production advantage, and spending money on design (a new configuration requires new software, etc), for no net benefit.
You can’t even sell these units outside of the USA (which is more than half of Apple’s market) because LTE only exists in a little American bubble.
This is especially limited, given that the iPhone 4 is more than half way through it’s product life cycle, and will be superseded before the middle of next year.
Ok. So ask your “source” where the fcc filing is for Apple’s new LTE or CDMA phone.
Apple can’t sell such a phone without review and approval by the FCC and all such applications are made public. This is also the reason why every iPhone has been announced at least two months before it was made available for purchase.
This is an entirely new device from the FCC’s point of view and Apple needs its approval before it can begin selling it. THAT is why this rumor is bogus
Reading the dismissals, one remembers the same arguments used to tell us that the leaked ipod touch images were fake and that apple would NEVER go to intel, let alone the claim that they had had OSX on intel from the get go running parallel the whole time.
The facts are that ATT has not been a great partner, that Apple in the rest of the world has already signed with multiple carriers in single countries, Verizon has the second largest base of potential customers giving it the highest customer satisfaction rating, and LTE solves the simultaneous voice/data issues even if it’s not available everywhere yet.
Apple helped ATT with a lot of technology to improve the network, and would do so for Verizon.
Does this discount that Verizon has been spreading this rumor for years? No. Does them spreading it mean it can’t be true? No.
I think it’s been very likely ever since Verizon changed CEO’s, easing the process of walking the relationship back with Apple.
I work for best buy and I know our Apple Specialist personally. If anyone from best buy walks about to you telling you that the iPhone will be on Verizons network soon is full of it. management or not. CEO or not. They dont know shit. Our Apple Rep and Verizon Rep dont know anything and trust me, they would tell us because they want it just as bad as us. LTE will be in the iPhone but its not worth paying for the chip if 90% of the country cant even take advantage of it.
“The Verizon iPhone will be immediately available upon formal announcement”
I still think that Verizon and Apple will announce the iPhone in January together during an Apple Keynote speech. Apple wont let Verizon announce something since Apple loves making hige deals out of something new. Even if it isnt new and just updated.
Sigh! I guess Stevie wants to get ahead of the LTE Android rush for 2011…
While I love the thought of a Verizon iPhone, this story is being quoted then dissed on a number of tech blogs. Any comment from you?
How do we know if an apple representative could be here right now? Denying everything. Guys verizon has been waiting long enough.. Its coming.
“Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions”
Seems unlikely as Apple store employees didn’t have hands on the iPad until minutes before it was for sale.
also
“Verizon agreed to take 100% responsibility for security,”
Is totally not believable.
Don’t you understand that it’s correct time to receive the loans, which would make you dreams real.
I’m betting the rumor is not based around the release of the iPhone at VZW, but rather the release of the new Google Nexus in a CDMA format at VZW. That makes far more sense.
> Verizon. Getting the iPhone any day now since 2006.
Huh? There’s wasn’t any AT&T, Verizon, or any iPhone in 2006.
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where is it?!
Guys, Lets be realistic here. The only reason apple has not made negations with verizon is because, they know the fact that, verizon is in it for the apps for android devices. Now yes, Verizon does want to boost sales with the iPhone but it is mainly for all smart phone devices to get the apps on iPhone.Which may be the reason we wont see an iPhone in january, but hopefully we will.
@Rob: get a life
@macdailynews: “iPhone 5 was planned to debut in summer as LTE-only, for all contracted carriers” LTE is data-only and there is no VoIP network that could handle tens of millions of concurrent phone calls originating and terminating on relatively expensive (ie, “capped”) wireless radio links. Someday, but not Summer ’11 lol.
A friend of mine also has another un-disclosable source separate from this story that tells him similar news so this could be true.
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