Verizon has invited reporters to a January 11th press event where it is expected the wireless carrier will announce it will carry the iPhone.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, conference goers are abuzz with Verizon iPhone excitement:
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I love how Apple sucks the oxygen out of CES.
“I have a Droid, and it’s alright..”
LMFAO! My wife says hers “sucks” .. She wants me to email Steve to get her first in line for iPhone at Verizon. I gently explained to her that it just doesn’t work they way
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remember the last CES when Balm-y touted his little
iPad-killer ?
I wonder if that device was ever released ?
LOL… I’ve been lucky with AT&T… but for some AT&T SUCKS! The ancient dude doesn’t care, probably still using MS-DOS on his IBM PC. haha
I am on iPhone with Rogers in Canada, I didn’t think AT&T could be as bad as everyone says. Then last summer I drove from Toronto to Charleston NC to go on a cruse, was barley able to get any signal while roaming through the US.
@Jeff For the record: Rogers also sucks. Try traveling across Canada, especially the Prairie provinces.
That is such a great video.
forget verizon and the iphone, i want that hottie on the left at 1:09
Verizon WILL get bogged down when millions try to activate…just like AT&T. Unless, by some miracle, they have taken the necessary step to ensure that it doesn’t. I personally don’t have any issues with the service, suits me well. No coverage or reception issues.
@ Jeff,
While you are traveling across the prairies testing Rogers network, if you look hard enough, you should barely see some barley. Stop for a beer and you can taste barley as well.
It’s going to be huge! There’s so much pent up demand both from existing Verizon users and disgruntlend AT+T users.
I love vegetable barley soup. Mmm-mm good!
Yawn.
I was with Verizon for 4 years and hated most every moment of it. Crippled phones, “nickel and dime” you to death policies and ROAMING charges just outside major metropolitan areas.
Yeah, it took the iPhone to get me to switch, but there’s no way in hades I’d ever sign another Verizon contract.
Gonna be funny when all the Verizion users try to use their phones in Europe… CDMA is an Americas thing…GSM is the world “standard”. Which is why AT&T was behind for so long as they scrambled to put up towers. Now AT&T is working great for me. Some hiccups but it continues to improve and I can travel ANYWHERE!
Right, I was on Verizon, and will not go back. Been on AT&T over 5 years now, and have never had any extra charges. To me, that is pretty important; with Verizon, I was indeed dollared and ten dollared to death – none of the nickel and dime stuff, they were pretty blatant with it!
What I want is this ridiculous carrier exclusivity stuff with cell phones to STOP! Buy the phone, use it with any company you choose, that’s the ticket. Like many other places in the world. It’s dumb the way Americans just take all this cell company junk thrown at us… Whew, sorry for the little rant. Get iPhone on all carriers, soon.
You know, when they make a video like that, they can ask that question to 200 people and edit together the 20 that say what they want to hear. I’m sure they could have made one that said “everyone” loved their Android phone or Blackberry, so they did not care about iPhone news (if they interviewed enough attendees).
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Note to MDN. Get over the anti flash video crap! Do you realize how well flash actually works on the Android? I’ve never, I repeat, NEVER had a crash or anything adverse due to having flash on it. You really are hypnotized from SJ’s reality distortion field!
Steve12345:
Several of my colleagues (IT operations) have androids (various devices, different OS versions, different carriers). EVERY SINGLE ONE of them reports severe battery drainage when they access Flash content. I believe one of them said something to the effect of Flash video not being such a drain (perhaps some hardware video decoding), but other Flash applications simply take as many CPU cycles as are available from the device and chew through with vigour.
I have yet to hear ANYONE reporting Flash not affecting battery life in a meaningful way.
It may effect the battery, but I can live with that for now. I don’t look at flash based video often enough to really make that an issue and I guess that’s my point. It’s not like most people are doing flash video watching even say 10% of the time they’re using their phone. For now I think flash has a place on the mobile devices and computers until HTML5 standards are ready. As I understand it’s more like 5 years before we’ll see it really become the new standard. Until then I believe that Adobe has a decent video content player that works for most people. That’s all I have to say about that.
Seems like it is a done deal. Hopefully the Verizon customers will get the same deal as ATT. All I remember with Verizon was having a moto phone for 3 years. Paid about the same as now. Eventually the phone stopped working and I went into an office to get it fixed. Apparently the OS was so out of date that the system stopped working. They fixed it quickly but the point is that it was not updated on a regular basis.
The iPhone has changed the way people use phones and shifted some control to the manufacturers. And it feels good. Thanks Apple.
@steve32465
I love it when people make the case for us. “I don’t look at flash based video often enough to really make that an issue”
So really, it really isn’t that big of a deal that we can’t get Flash on our iPhones.
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Thanks for clearing that up for us…..
I think the guy that said, “I’m not worried about it because it’s not there NOW” is probably related to Steve Ballmer.
I am a verizon customer. I kept my BB hoping they would keep up with the times. I want to jump on the iPhone, but since I waited this long, wondering if I should just wait until summer for the iPhone 5
re: Steve32465:
Gee, someone sounds like that crowd about 13 years ago when the first iMac came out with no floppy disk drive. Get over your antiquated self………and your trolling. The puck has moved away from Flash…..and it aint coming back.
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