Even More Verizon iPhone Rumors!
Verizon iPhone rumors are like days of the week—they just seem to go and on in an endless cycle. However, since even the Wall Street Journal is saying that a Verizon iPhone is really on its way for early next year, the cycle might just get broken and whatever everyone really wants could finally happen. Don’t worry. I’ve got the latest batch of Verizon iPhone goodness.
Verizon Wireless is apparently hiring hundreds of new call center employees for its iPhone launch. The job posting says that “personal computers and portable devices like MP3 players and smartphones” will be part of the job. If that’s not a Verizon iPhone hint, I don’t know what is. (The listing was posted on CarreerBuiler.Com and did not reference Verizon)
At the same time, Apple is stepping up its game. That billion dollar media server system it is building? That will open by the end of the year. Just in time for when millions of new iPhone users start clamoring for their apps and media. You know Apple didn’t build the center because it expects to sell tons of Apple TVs. It is building the center for when AT&T loses its iPhone exclusivity deal and Verizon (and possibly others) get to finally sell iPhones.
With fresh hints that Verizon’s model of the iPhone will be a world phone and thus have a SIM card slot for when you are outside of the US, the same model will be able to work on T-Mobile and Sprint’s network as well. Of course, to do so you will have to jailbreak it first and then unlock it so you can select another carrier. Even if Verizon’s first iPhone offering is not a world phone, the iPhone 5 that will come out around the middle of 2011 should be.
How Verizon will sell both Android powered smartphones and iPhones at the same time might be a tricky issue. Verizon has been heavily promoting Android because right now, it is the best non-Apple smartphone operating system out there. That’s Android’s pitch. It’s like an iPhone that works on carriers besides just AT&T. How well that pitch works when Verizon has iPhones in their stores remains to be seen. Are they going to keep flooding our televisions with Android smartphone advertisements? Money doesn’t grow on trees so one is going to get considerably more ad dollars than the other.
Tell me your thoughts on this. A Verizon iPhone really really coming out this time? What will Verizon do with all of its Android smartphone partnerships? It is going to keep selling them, but things might not be quite as rosy as they once were.
Tags: verizon iphone, Apple iPhone 5, Apple, Verizon Wireless, rumor


CDMA Iphone will be junk! non of the features apple pushes in its tv adds will work on a CDMA phone. no data and calling at the same time. it is a bad move for apple to put out an inferior product too the one they have put out already, why take a step back for a dead network like CDMA
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Hi im 14 years old and ive been dying for verizon to get an iphone. But my cousin is using an iphone 3g on at&t and he said he would give it to me to use it on verizon when they start to sell the iphones.Will i be able to use the iphone3g on verizon when they start to sell the iphones or will only the iphone 4′s work with verizon….. Please Respond thx…
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Anonymous Reply:
November 27th, 2010 at 3:53 am
@Alex Molina, iPhone 3g won’t work on verizon. It is GSM only and Verizon uses CDMA.
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Interesting… consider the auto mall concept. Buy a Ford or Chrysler at the same dealer. I don’t see an issue selling iPhones and droids at Verizon.
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Dear Apple. Please just announce the Verizon iPhone is coming. It will make everyones life SO much better. Thanks you.
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Apple HAS to branch out from AT&T. Do they know how much $$$ they are missing by not having an iPhone for Verizon? It has to happen sooner rather than later and I am waiting for it! I have AT&T now and am putting off buying an iPhone. I’ll bite the bullet and wait for the iPhone 5 and mid-2011. Bring it on!!! It just irks me that I have to wait so long. I’m ready to buy now, but I will not lock myself into AT&T and their spotty service. I spend 1/2 my year in Alaska and I need a smart phone that can get some service!
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Just chatted online with a Verizon rep about changing my plan and device… She told me to hold off until Nov 28th with a “wink”.
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