Verizon Wireless and Apple today announced that the iPhone 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10. Qualified Verizon Wireless customers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 online on February 3, ahead of general availability.
iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple’s stunning Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime® which makes video calling a reality. iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless will also include new Personal Hotspot capabilities allowing customers to use iPhone 4 to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.
“We are pleased to introduce millions of wireless users to the industry leading iPhone 4 on the nation’s most reliable network,” said Lowell McAdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon, in the press release. “This is an important step for the industry as two great companies join forces to give wireless customers one of the most important technological additions to the mobile landscape this century.”
“Verizon Wireless customers have told us they can’t wait to get their hands on iPhone 4, and we think they are going to love it,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, in the press release. “We have enormous respect for the company Verizon has built and the loyalty they have earned from their customers.”
iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 chip, a 3-axis gyro and a beautiful glass and stainless steel design like no other mobile phone. iPhone 4 also comes with iOS 4, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes multitasking, folders, Game Center, AirPlay and AirPrint wireless printing. iPhone 4 customers have access to the world’s most popular App Store with more than 300,000 apps available in an incredible range of 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health and reference.
iPhone 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning Thursday, February 10 for a suggested retail price of $199.99 for the 16GB model and $299.99 for the 32GB model with a new two year customer agreement. iPhone 4 will be available at more than 2,000 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores nationwide, online at http://www.verizonwireless.com/iphone, at Apple Retail Stores, at the Apple Store® (http://www.apple.com), at Apple Authorized Resellers, and by calling 1-800-2 JOIN IN.
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 93 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 79,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone. For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Source: Apple Inc.
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Verizon now has the iPhone. Check mate, Andriod.
They never mentioned anything about plans and plan features. How much for voice (how many minutes), how much for data, what tiers are available, how much for text, how much for mobile hotspot feature?
Verizon has so far been the undisputed world champion of nickle-and-diming. We should not be surprised when the plans turn out to be less attractive that some had hoped.
And the Verizon website is as slow as a turtle at the moment. So much for their “superior network”!
I’ll stay with AT&T patiently awaiting the phantom white iPhone.
now that we finally have that out of the way, it’s on to the next burning question: when will we get hover boards?!?!!!
@ Predrag
Hopefully identical phones will spur competition in rate plans…
they mentioned 2 years non exclusive – does that mean there is still hope for the other 2 US carriers?
Well congrats MDN….looks like you made it…..i see you’re listed in the technology section of Gomaja.com
Yeah, check mate, Android!
Pretty soon the US cell phone market will look like Europe’s – where the iPhone has been available on all the major carriers for years, and as a result nobody offers Android phones because the retailers can’t give them away!
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I like the “Personal Hotspot” feature. I hope this is something we’ll see from the other carriers.
Now if we could just get Verizon to offer upgrade pricing to existing customers of Android devices. I am not eligible for an upgrade until October. I would hate to pay more than 199 but I so want to get rid of my DROID.
But where’s the MDN take?
good. If verizon has the hotspot feature at no extra cost, that will probably make AT&T stop charging for tethering. Hopefully.
Good. I want iPhone on ALL cell companies… I’m still on ATT, no iPhone because of don’t need internet on the lakes/rivers/woods, etc.
Now, MDN – please remove the photo from top left – I can’t take any more of him.
Verizon…..Getting the iPhone every day since…………
No mention of the Data Plan pricing?
Plenty of people are loving that AT&T unlimited Data Plan… And won’t switch for that reason alone.
This is ridiculously high retail pricing for a 3G phone by the way…
What good is a “personal hotspot” when it shuts down every time you get a call? I think this CDMA limitation is the Verizon iPhone’s biggest downfall. I check email or maps while on a call quite often on AT&T.
Called my local Verizon provider (who are tired of me shrugging off their suggestions for my long overdue upgrade) and they said the first two phones they get are mine.
Now I just have to wait 30 long days . . . Clock is barely moving.
@Predrag
Any prognostications on the availability of the iPhone on Sprint & T-Mobile? Will that be coming too since 2007?
Enquiring minds want to know.
I hope AT&T will have that Hotspot feature too in the near future to stay competitive.
Verizon customers rejoice for today you have been delivered from your suffering.
But…But… not on Verizon till 2012!!! What you naysayers have to say now? hehe.
No simultaneous voice and data? No sale! When will they have this capability?
I was hoping that they would include LTE, that would have been great. Now at least we don’t have to hear all the AT&T sucks, that’s why I can’t get a iPhone.
So Verizon gets the iPhone 4 in Feb. and then Apple releases the iPhone 5 in June. Is Apple really worried about Android progress to release the Verizon iPhone so late? Will Apple even release a new iPhone this year since as they said the iPhone 4 is the largest iPhone upgrade ever? Will consumers wait and get the iPhone 4 on the cheap from Verizon or hold off for the new iPhone if there even is one?
Ok, so I was wrong – but only half wrong. The iPhone on Verizon will still suck – I can’t wait to hear the complaints. CDMA/EVDO is ancient… Voice calls will be fine, but everything else, everything that makes the iPhone so special will suck with Verizon.