“A self-proclaimed Verizon employee — and reader of Phone Arena — noticed that e-tailer Offwire has begun to offer accessories for a version of the iPhone 4 on Verizon,” Evan Blass reports for pocketnow. “Most importantly, these items are clearly not typos: not only does Offwire allow you to browse by both ‘iPhone 4 AT&T’ as well as ‘iPhone 4 Verizon,’ a spot check indicates that manufacturers such as Case-Mate are already making different versions of their existing products for the upcoming handset — models like the Tough and Pop cases have separate SKUs depending on the carrier.”
Blass reports, “Update: So not only has Offwire seemingly pulled all of the products which once showed up in the iPhone 4 Verizon category, a commenter over at Phone Arena pointed out that Case-Mate already has a website dedicated to products for the upcoming handset. Or, it used to: the URL now redirects to a generic iPhone 4 landing page, but thanks to Google cache, the original content is still there.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sievelike.
Steve Jobs must be putting a hurting on the Silicon Valley Valium supply these days.
Doesn’t mean a thing. Until SJ walks on stage and says hell has frozen over it….
Verizon.
Getting the iPhone any day now since 2006.
Then I guess the form factor is unique per carrier?
Have to agree with djp here. The Verizon iPhone has been in so many rumors and speculation for years now. Although the “sources” now seem to be a little more reliable. However, many rumors that have never come to fruition have been started from “an employee of Verizon” or “someone that knows someone at Verizon.” I remember reading posts of a lady so excited for the Verizon iPhone when the iPhone 4 was about to be announced because her son (a Verizon employee working in a retail store) had “confirmed” to her that Verizon would be getting the iPhone 4. I still am speculative about this even though I would like to see it. Competition is good.
I’m still waiting for Steve Jobs on stage with the Verizon sign on behind him before I put much credit in any rumors.
Nothing like “accidental” leaks to generate free publicity for someone’s web site.
I think I’ll “accidentally” post some cases for the Flux Capacitor.
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This just doesn’t add up. Why would the Verizon iPhone need a different case, cables or any accessories for that matter than the AT&T iPhone? Aren’t they both externally the same phone except for one being GSM and the other CDMA? Seems VERY suspicious to me…
The only thing I can imagine is that Apple makes the Verizon (i.e., CDMA) iPhone a different color to distinguish it from the GSM version. Just my 2¢ worth…
Uh…
The iPhone 5 is what, 4 to 5 months away. Is Apple really going to release an iPhone 4 for Verizon now?
That seems completely at odds with how Apple usually works.
I don’t even think apple will announce a verizon iPhone until iPhone 5. They may release some supposed specs of the iphone 5 but not announce a carrier until their event. Announcing early would hurt apple because people would hold off on buying iphones now and just wait 6 months to go to verizon for one.
Verizon getting it’s hellish, spindly, nasty, dirty little claws on apple’s beautiful, magical, indescribable iphone makes me feel sick.
ugh
J:
I agree, Verizon will get the iPhone 5, it would be ridiculous to get an iPhone 4 a few months before the next gen comes out. If they do, it will most likely be the white one. However just wait till May, Steve will be on stage talking about the new iPhone, it will be about 45 mins into the keynote, he will wrap things up, the oh one more thing and up pops the Verizon logo.
the Verizon logo will NEVER be the “one more thing”
When iPhone comes to verizon, and it will eventually (LTE), it will be a one off press conference at Cupertino campus.
I still contend that there will NEVER be a CDMA iPhone, unless it is an LTE iPhone that falls back to CDMA, like ATT 3G falls back to EDGE with no signal.
If there is vphone, and that’s doubtful, apple would need to sell 50 million in the first five minutes, with queues to the moon outside every apple store to stop tech pundits (or “twats”, as they are more commonly referred to as) saying the launch was a disappointment
It could be that AT&T will have exclusive on iPhone 5 to complete exclusivity agreement … with iPhone 4 being released on Verizon.. Who knows, but timing Would be strange.
It will happen. It only hurts apple to keep the iPhone locked to 1 carrier. Most countries have the iPhone on multiple carriers. It’s time to get on sprint, verizon and I guess t mobile.
For anyone wondering… I just drove by the McCarran Field Executive Terminal in Vegas. Steve Job’s private jet is not here (yet). It’s looking less likely that he’s taking the stage at CES during the Verizon keynote (not that I ever thought he would).