Apple Making Verizon-Ready iPhone by Year End

[Darth Biscuit]

Apple Inc. plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year, said people briefed by Apple.

The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T Inc. but would be based on an alternative wireless technology called CDMA used by Verizon, these people said. The phone, for which Qualcomm Inc. is providing a key chip, is expected to be released in the first quarter of next year, according to the same people.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536191649347572.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs

First I've heard this from a mainstream media source... it's been bouncing around as a rumor for some time now.

No chance I'll trade in my Droid however.

[The Saltman]

if this would have happened last year I would have thought about it. They took too long for this.

[Darth Biscuit]

Yep... they lost a lot of people to droid phone by sticking with AT&T so long. Personally I like my droid better than the iPhone, but last year I would have bought an iPhone.

[SmootsDaddy89]

How about they stop delaying flash 10.1 implementation if they want anyone besides illiterate morons to care about iphones.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

iphone? What the hell is an iphone?

[Kettle]

yup. too late.

[Britneck]

Lol. Droid is poo. Got 2 friends on their 3rd Droid X and one going on his 4th. Motorola is crap. None of them leave home without their chargers either. Too late? lol It will only take a couple years till the majority of Verizon customers have an iphone. This all rumors too. Many tech sites have been reporting this for awhile.

[Kettle]

maybe your friends just don't take very good care of them? i haven't seen any accounts of people having trouble with their X. i've had mine for a couple weeks now, and i take my charger with me a lot but because its just a USB cable. I share files between work and home computers using it.

[The Saltman]

Lol. Droid is poo. Got 2 friends on their 3rd Droid X and one going on his 4th. Motorola is crap. None of them leave home without their chargers either. Too late? lol It will only take a couple years till the majority of Verizon customers have an iphone. This all rumors too. Many tech sites have been reporting this for awhile.

i love my htc incredible

[Kettle]

i do know someone who is on her 3rd incredible, but its her own clumsy fault. drops them often.

[The Saltman]

ya lol dropping them in the toilet is not a good idea

[The Saltman]

and i honestly don't need to charge it until i get home at 630 or not even at all.

[Britneck]

maybe your friends just don't take very good care of them? i haven't seen any accounts of people having trouble with their X. i've had mine for a couple weeks now, and i take my charger with me a lot but because its just a USB cable. I share files between work and home computers using it.

It all happened within the first couple days of them having it. They froze up and would stutter when you would switch screens. It only took a couple of days for refurbished ones to pop up on the Verizon site. My buddy with the incredible did that 2.1 or something update and that shut his phone down. The only one i haven't heard of trouble is the regular droid. I played with one and it seemed slow to me though. I like the Droid X when it works but from my experience Motorola doesn't last long.

[Carolina Husker]

Love my Droid X. I wouldn't switch to an iPhone now. Had they done this 6 months ago, I'd be using an iPhone right now.