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Apple Making Verizon-Ready iPhone by Year End
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536191649347572.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories ^
| 10/06/2010
| By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And TING-I TSAI
Posted on 10/06/2010 11:22:06 AM PDT by TSgt
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Buhbye AT&T. The iPhone was the only thing keeping your sucky service afloat.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:22:10 AM PDT
by
TSgt
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:22:53 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
To: TSgt; Swordmaker
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:25:35 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: TSgt
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:25:56 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: TSgt
Works for me. All the folks migrating off of AT&T to Verizon will just free up that much more bandwidth for those who remain. ;)
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:27:45 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
To: TSgt
This keeps being floated, but the Verizon phone never seems to show up. I’d still give this no more than a 20% chance of happening.
...but it has kept me from upgrading my 3G, just in case.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:28:19 AM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: TSgt
“Buhbye AT&T. The iPhone was the only thing keeping your sucky service afloat.”
That, and the fact it actually works overseas. Sadly, the Verizon version is only good here in the good ol’ USA.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:29:09 AM PDT
by
Adams
(Fight on!)
To: TSgt
Apple feeling the heat from Android.
To: TSgt
Verizon originally told Apple to pound sand with Apple's demands for the first iPhones.
Thus AT&T was the sole provider for them.
Wonder who blinked?
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:30:00 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
To: Califelephant
Mrs. TSgt and I are Blackberry users but will soon be going Droid...
I’m no fan of Apple...
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:30:43 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
To: TSgt
This turd rumor has bess tossed in the punchbowl so many times lately.... I’ll believe it when I have a VZW iPhone on order/in my hand and not a minute sooner. :)
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:32:56 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: TSgt
Apple would have been better off if they would have done this before the Droid came out. I have the Droid 2 and my friend has the iphone. I checked out his iphone, which was a very cool phone, but my Droid can do everything the iphone can, and it seems to be built better as well.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:35:10 AM PDT
by
Mind Freed
(Maybe Obama was the Wright choice... Let's wait till everything Ayers out.)
To: TSgt
“...soon be going Droid...”
Prepare to have a Google email account or be unable to download even the free apps.
Really.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:40:27 AM PDT
by
Leo Farnsworth
(I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
To: N. Theknow
I prefer CDMA and Verizon coverage. I have a Droid. That said, one of the things the iPhone can do with the AT&T (TDMA/GSM) network is simultaneous voice/data. CDMA2000 can't do that. You have a voice or a data call at a given moment. An iPhone on Verizon CDMA will have to deal with that limitation. In exchange, it will have broader coverage and the 1XEV-DO Rev A network gives pretty decent data speeds.
The Verizon certification labs tend to be real hard asses when it comes to passing testing. Apple may have been trying to use corporate influence to bypass the stringent certification requirements. I suspect it is Apple who blinked. They want access to that Verizon customer base. They will have to play by the rules and pass the certification tests. Their crappy antenna issues may have been exposed and fixed in that process instead of turning into the media circus that it was.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:45:24 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: TSgt
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:47:00 AM PDT
by
Feline_AIDS
(A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
To: TSgt
I hope it ends up with Sprint instead of, or in addition to, Verizon.. Cheaper plans, and solid coverage in my area..
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:54:09 AM PDT
by
Wayne07
To: N. Theknow
Very good, thats correct. Its seems those in charge at Verizon are garden variety stupid. I think their comments on the iphone originally were along the lines of ‘Who would want that?’. LOL, turns out the answer is ‘lots of folks who have $$ to spend’.
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posted on
10/06/2010 11:56:35 AM PDT
by
556x45
To: TSgt
Yawn, wake me up when it’s actually there, and when I’m up for a new Verizon phone next year.
To: TSgt
Rush ended his show with this story...
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posted on
10/06/2010 12:09:54 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: TSgt
Geez, I just picked up my Droid-X this morning.
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posted on
10/06/2010 12:13:14 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Obama is a failed experiment.)
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