Want Your iPhone on Verizon?
We’ve all heard that AT&T in the US has an exclusive on the iPhone, and that maybe that exclusive was bumped up to 2010 when they agreed to the new iPhone 3G model, but no one outside the lawyer-strewn vaults at Apple and AT&T likely knows how much or for how long. With that in mind, BGR is rumoring that Verizon might be getting ready to unleash a little CDMA/EVDO iPhone fury all their own.
Apple is said to have approached Verizon to be the original iPhone carrier, after all, with AT&T only getting the deal when Verizon turned it down. Likewise, it’s been suggested that Apple may not exactly be thrilled at the problems 3G users (and Crackberry Kevin’s, it seems!) are having on the AT&T network.
Still, this one is hard for us to believe. Irrespective of Verizon’s huge footprint in the US, and regardless of the appeal a CDMA/EVDO iPhone may have for some, it’s a small global market for Apple to spend their already straining resources on.
Besides, Jeremy points out that with the Blackberry Storm set to strike over at Verizon, would they really want to let the iPhone 3G steal RIM’s “thunder” (ouch!)
What do you think? Any iPhone owners out there dying to switch (back?) to Verizon? Any Verizon stalwarts still holding out for an EVDO iPhone?
September 30th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Maybe the deal is not for an EVDO phone and not now. Verizon’s next gen network is LTE which is what AT&T will be using for their next gen network. But Verizon will be there first maybe a year ahead of AT&T. So maybe the folks at Apple are looking ahead and will be offering an LTE version on Verizon and when they come around AT&T.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I do miss the service of VZW and wish this news was out a month ago when I bought my iPhone - :\
September 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I’d switch back. With Verizon I had signal in more places. Even in Walmart lol.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I hate verizon.
and no they’d probably make some crappy V Cast program to go on your iPhone. Who wants that? V Cast sucks.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:18 am
@iphonemilk, i agree. i would hate it to have a “verizon specific” build on that phone.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I would love to see an iPhone on Verizon. I have an iPod Touch and love the technology. I’d jump in a second from my Treo 700p especially as more enterprise apps are being created.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Using the iPhone on Verizon would make it perfect. I would love to switch back.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I really do want to switch back. So badly atandt sucks!!!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Here is my prediction:
iPhone on VZW with the release of the 32GB model -
September 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I’d seitch back in a heartbeat, termination fee or no termination fee.
I don’t see a Verison iPhone happening in the near future; unless Apple builds a “world phone” with CDMA and GSM technology.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I would leave at&t and go to Verizon in a heartbeat… As long as Verizon doesn’t “hamper down” this phone.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Iam leaving verizon To get a iphone Verizon you have to pay for everything.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 am
I’ll just keep my iPod touch and a Verizon Mororola RAZR.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 am
I am so frustrated with AT&T s lack of service near my home I called to cancel my service. They of course wanted to charge me $375 for my son and I to leave the mess. They went on and on about the contract and had no answer to the fact that the contract calls for them to ACTUALLY PROVIDE SERVICE. They check their computer and tell me that we have good service in my neighborhood. I explained that if I want to use my cell phone I have to get in my car and leave the area. THIS DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF A CELL PHONE! I have been thrust backwards past the 80s 70s 60s and 50s Back to the 1920s when one had to leave their home to use a community phone miles away. MEanwhile my wife takes and makes call after call on her Verizon phone.Would I switch to VERIZON? IN A HEARTBEAT!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I would love to be able to use an iPhone, but since my company pays for my Verizon Crackberry service….
I had AT&T for many years and find that Verizon has much better coverage, but their technology and exculsive services (VCast) stink.
Oh Steve Jobs, I am deeply sorry for having offended thee by buying an HP Laptop instead of Mac, please forgive me and grant me a Verizon iPhone.
BTW, my wife has an iTouch and loves it. I think the tech behind that is years ahead of Samsung, LG and even RIM.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
i switched… the iphone 3g is just a piece of work.. working thru is effortless.. its really different. i had a verizon smartphone.. the smartphone sucks if one has laid hands on iphone.. i waited and waited.. i have been with verizon since i came to u.s. but in the end.. i said.. i need some real smart phone.. not just which is called smartphone.. thank you apple.. i am wondering.. does their notebooks work the same way.. will buy one later this year.. in need of upgrade..
October 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
If Apple and Verizon could get an iPhone deal done, I would wait in line to buy one. I’m on VZW and am not switching service. I plan to buy the Blackberry Storm when it is available, but would go with the iPhone if it is an option in 2008. I’m not holding my breath.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
On Macbreak Weekly yesterday, reporting on the AT&T lawsuit, they said Apple had to agree not to make a CDMA iPhone. So much for this rumor…
October 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
so when is the fury gonna come out??!@?1?!?!?!?!/
October 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I’d switch back when my att contract runs up. I miss Verizons great customer service, ATT is not that great but they have the iphone so what can you do. But if it takes till 2010, Thats fine. That will be when most peoples 2 year contracts with ATT run out, ad we will all probably want a newer updated iphone by then anyway. I just wonder if Vernon will be able to handle the large demand (It will be bigger then ATT releasing of iphone 3G)
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 am
I’ve stuck with Verizon through all the iPhone hipe. I love the coverage. I do agree that vCast & the Verizon Wireless version of the internet…suck! I have the Voyager (Verizon’s 1st attempt at an iPhone “match”) I like it, but I also have an iPod Touch & dream of putting the two together, so to speak. What Verizon & Apple need to do is come up with an iPhone that runs on the CDMA & GMS networks. I read somewhere it being called a “world phone.” Verizon is free to put whatever software it wants on it, as long as it runs just like any other iPhone. That’s what needs to happen, end of story.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:32 am
I would give ANYTHING to switch back to Verizon but keep my iphone! I HATE AT&T, I have no service anywhere! I have to literally walk out into the parking lot at my work in order to make a phone call. With Verizon I didnt even know what a dropped call was, I had service everywhere. I would pay whatever fee they wanted me to to get the iphone with Verizon!
October 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I have the Verizon Voyager and the Ipod Touch. I would love to have the iPhone, but with my family members across the country using Verizon, and the bad things I’ve heard about AT&T service, I refuse to move to AT&T. Too bad the iPod Touch is wifi only and has no camera- those are the only two things I don’t like about it. I don’t mind it not being a phone.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I’m also with verizon holding steady for an iphone. Sadly it will probably not be subsidized, at the same time it will be the native apple ui so that’ll be nice. We’ll see when its all announced in january!
November 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I really wish the iPhone would be released on Verizon. I think it would be a smart move on Apples part as there are many of us verizon customers who are happy with their service. Also, in all the tests I have done EVDO has always been faster than atts 3G netowrk. EVDO also has GREAT coverage in my experience. I am really holding my breath for MWSF 09!! I dont think Apple will release one that soon esp. since I have heard their contract being renewed with att until 2010 but im sure there are pleanty of workarounds to that contract…could it possibly be that they cannont released another GSM phone..no CDMA
November 19th, 2008 at 3:27 am
am about to switch from Verizon to AT&T just to get an iPhone. live in Seattle and most of my friends love their iPhones with good call quality and service. i might wait to check out the Storm before taking the plunge, but i can’t imagine the Storm being able to surpass the functionality of the iPhone, particularly the apps store. corporate users might be drooling over the Storm, but i’m not in that line of work
November 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I am dying to try the iphone. I like Verizon’s network- I have had great signal all over the US. Apple plz go to Verizon!