Apple Readies Hybrid iPhone
 

:wow: A new report from OTR Global says Apple plans to release a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone in the third quarter of 2010.
If true, the new iPhone will play nice with Verizon's network and spell an end to AT&T's exclusivity contract in the
U.S. -- which is already slated to end sometime next year. But there's more. Read on.....................

Apple Readies Hybrid iPhone, Report Says - PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/17464...ml?tk=rel_news

i love AT&T, idk why everyone has such a problem with it.

my iPhone works great and with my experience if an AT&T phone is released to verizon it usually comes in lesser quality

For example: the Motorola RAZR, when it was an AT&T phone it was very high quality (ie metal back, better keypad, etc). With verizon it was crap, it had a plastic back, crappy keyboard, and of course terrible software (the usually verizon Communist red software)

So, i cant tell if this is good news or bad news.

i think this is for the worse... iPhone's will soon be everywhere(as if it already isn't), and there won't be any exclusivity in having one anymore. It is going to be another RAZR.

Since when was the iPhone exclusive? If you do a random sample of kids on a bus at any college, I bet 30-50% of students have one. I think I'm in the minority when I say I don't have a qwertz keyboard on my mobile phone.

The advantage to that is that with 3 networks, you can get unlimited calls, internet, mail, TV and SMS/MMS for about 60 bucks a month. My 1400 minutes, 2 iphones, and SMS kit run about 200 in the US.

AT&T signed an exclusive contract with Apple, so that they were the only US wireless carrier to offer the iPhone. That exclusive contract is apparently soon to come to an end, allowing Verizon, and possibly other carriers, to offer the iPhone (or variants thereof) to their customers. So, if you think you are seeing a lot of iPhones now, just wait until other cell companies start pushing them!

They're everywhere in France now, since its available from all 3 providers. And have a look, and nobody buys Orange (the first provider, who charged out the ass for service) anymore.

I really want the TV. I think I'm coming back next fall, I gotta see if I can get a regular subscription and just crank it down when I'm back home.

So Verizon customers will have to wait another year before they can get the I-Phone?

If you read the article you would have possibly
read that "A new report from OTR Global says
Apple plans to release a UMTS/CDMA hybrid
iPhone in the third quarter of 2010".

I heard Verizon had initially declined to have an agreement for iPhones on its network. It would be competitive to some of Verizons offerings. The other question would be will all this content and applications be too much of a burden on the Verizon Network and degrade existing voice and data services? I've heard that AT&T is still not great in terms of service.

Yes that is approximately a year from now.

The real questions is what functions of the
iPhone will Verizon attempt to disable in order
to try to make to customer pay more?....:dunno:

I see what you are saying - Interesting what the CEO of Verizon said when AT&T got the deal - pretty fishy. AT&T decided they wouldn't try to compete with iPhone and you know that Verizon already does.

On Monday, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told analysts that Apple "wasn't interested" in striking a deal with his company two years ago. "I have no thoughts on why they did what they did," he said.

Everybody knew why Apple went with AT&T
and he knew why as well.

I believe these are his words back in 2008

"Verizon reportedly turned down the chance to carry the original iPhone over distaste for the revenue-sharing agreements that Apple insisted on for its early launch partners"

Verizon CEO: iPhone success a 'conspiracy' | Apple - CNET News

Watch it be Sprint.

I am sure that they will kill the GPS, so you will need/pay for the Verizon application VZ navigator.

The next time you look into your crystal ball can you get us a set of winning lotto numbers please?

BUAHAHAHA :bustingup.

:bustingup but if you think about it, it is quite possible IF Verizon does get the iPhone.

They did, the iPhone's popularity is the only reason Verizon has loosen up so much on their policies. Without the iPhone, Verizon probably would've never release an Android based phone.

Google Map with GPS enable on Verizon is something you would've never....NEVER see on a Verizon Wireless device back in the day. Hell they even dumped that half a** Get It Now concept.

Then why not do that on the Droid which, AFAIK, has built in (no add'l fee) GPS.
I agree GetItNow & VZ nav sucks donkey.

Scott