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Rumor Mill: Here we go again... Verizon iPhone?

Do you care about it?

  • Yes, I care. I need an iPhone.

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • What's an iPhone? DRRROOOOIIIIDDDD

    Votes: 69 87.3%

  • I don't want my friends to know, but I secretly want an iPhone.

    Votes: 8 10.1%
  • Total voters
    79
I only care because my girlfriend has and enjoys her iPhone. I am firmly planted in Android. We may be merging our phone contracts by next year. Verizon has better Android phones than Sprint (for my needs, anyway) so if we can both get our favorite devices, great.

If not, she'll deal with it and learn to love Android as much as I do (not too far off, she likes my Hero as it is)
 
Isthmus said:
I think that if you had asked this 6 months or a year ago, the feedback would have been overwhelmingly positive. however in that same time period, Android phones have improved dramatically in both hardware and software terms, and the app store has expanded at an incredible rate. Today's high end Android phones have as high or higher specs as the iphone. sure a lot of verizon customers who wanted an iphone but didn't want att's crapy service would jump on board. The problem is that there are so manty excellent alternatives to the iphone (especially at verizon), that the pool of potential new iphone customers is much smaller than it was even a short while ago (and getting smaller every day).

That plus Apple will not be able to dictate terms to verizon the way they did to ATT. This time around apple needs a distributor, not the other way around. even ATT has been padding their portfolio with android devices. I think that when their exclusive ends, Aple might find itself in a much more hostile environment than the one they started in.
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Agreed. Makes me wonder if sprint would be a more likely destination for Apple than Verizon. Would still fit with the CDMA rumors, and would be a major pickup for Sprint, who would probably give apple more control than VZW would.
 
socarwolverine said:
I doubt it'd be that hard really, put LTE in it (which i'm pretty sure will still work with the current GSM) along with a CDMA antenna and you have an Iphone "world phone". With ATT and VZW going to the same 4G networks it doesnt seem like it's gonna be any more expensive than usual, just might take a bit longer. They still get universal use and they get to open their platform up to a couple million users.

I'm sticking with my DINC either way.
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Uh no. An LTE radio alone will not work with GSM just like a UMTS radio will not work with GSM alone. You still have to have all the radios in the thing. The standard calls for compatibility in that any LTE device has GSM fall back by use of another radio. LTE is going to be different frequencies as well. If we want LTE phones then GSM carriers better step up the game and start rolling out UMTS so its EVERYWHERE before we start worrying about devices. 3 or four different technologys for cellular alone not including wifi (on both 2400mhz and 5800mhz now with N)and bluetooth and gps is not cool for your battery.
 
nateo200 said:
Uh no. An LTE radio alone will not work with GSM just like a UMTS radio will not work with GSM alone. You still have to have all the radios in the thing. The standard calls for compatibility in that any LTE device has GSM fall back by use of another radio. LTE is going to be different frequencies as well. If we want LTE phones then GSM carriers better step up the game and start rolling out UMTS so its EVERYWHERE before we start worrying about devices. 3 or four different technologys for cellular alone not including wifi (on both 2400mhz and 5800mhz now with N)and bluetooth and gps is not cool for your battery.
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I guess I stand corrected.
 
I like my Incredible over the iPhone (and I own a ipod touch) but until the apps and games are more on par with apple I still have a hard time convincing people to Android. But they say better apps are coming...so holding my breath
 
I will answer this honestly:
I used to want an Iphone and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Then I decided since Verizon won't have one, I would settle for the next best thing and get an ipod touch.
Then my wife got a motorola droid and I play with it all the time.

Now, I couldn't care less about the iphone/ipod touch and I want to get an android based tablet or something along those lines. I would love an android version of an ipod touch!!!!
 
I think Verizon has too much invested in Droid and Google to offer the iPhone at this point. I think Sprint is the ideal target. A good test of waters to see if customers are interested in the iPhone on a carrier that has a large number of capable Android phones.
 
ChuckFarley said:
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With the option of the Inc, the gargantuan X, and the hard keyboard on the D2; why would anyone want an iPhone at this point? I'm seriously asking. 
 
Ps. Come January, I wouldn't be surprised if we were seeing a wave of dual core, android powered phones coming up.
 
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That's assuming android is the OS they want. Maybe the end user wants iOS. 

Remember that this forum is in the minority as would an Apple forum. Its hard to tell how well an iphone would sell on verizon, but I would suspect it to do very well.
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Intervenient said:
I think Verizon has too much invested in Droid and Google to offer the iPhone at this point. I think Sprint is the ideal target. A good test of waters to see if customers are interested in the iPhone on a carrier that has a large number of capable Android phones.
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A WiMax and CDMA iphone? LOL. T-Mobile will be next if anyone.
 
Yea it would be just another choice for a phone if it did come. I dont think it would hurt anything. For ppl thats happy with Android, BB, Win Mo, etc I dont see them switching tho.

syst3merror said:
I will answer this honestly:
I used to want an Iphone and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Then I decided since Verizon won't have one, I would settle for the next best thing and get an ipod touch.
Then my wife got a motorola droid and I play with it all the time.

Now, I couldn't care less about the iphone/ipod touch and I want to get an android based tablet or something along those lines. I would love an android version of an ipod touch!!!!
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This was me exactly to a tee. I wanted an iPhone for the past year....until I found Android and the Droid. Now I'm Android for the near future. If anything, I might go back to Win Mo before I go to the iPhone. And after using Android, I want to try a tablet for the first time ever. Never wanted to before. And I want that Google TV...lol

Intervenient said:
I think Verizon has too much invested in Droid and Google to offer the iPhone at this point. I think Sprint is the ideal target. A good test of waters to see if customers are interested in the iPhone on a carrier that has a large number of capable Android phones.
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I agree. Although Verizon, if its a company that cares about that lil thing called money, I can see them offering the iPhone. Any carrier would. Who wants to turn down a chance to make extra money?

Maybe it would work better now that Android is so entrenched at Verizon. It wouldnt knock Android out the picture, they could co-exist.

If it came to Verizon or Sprint it would be a good test.
 
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