Why I think the iPhone will not come to Verizon
A while back I was in the electronics department at Walmart, and I told the guy behind the counter that we were going to switch to AT&T for the iPhone. He said "Well, the iPhone is coming to Verizon." I had never heard that so I didn't really believe him. The man said, "It was announced the same day the Palm Pre Plus was." At the time ,the Palm Pre Plus had not yet come out. That made me doubt it even more. Well, I'm still wondering if that guy is right or not. So I'll guess we'll see in June-July. I personally don't think so. I'm going to give a couple reasons why I think we will not be seeing an iPhone on Verizon.
1. The current iPhone is on AT&T which is GSM and Verizon is CDMA. So that means that Apple would have to make four different iPhones, two for AT&T and two for Verizon. GSM uses SIM cards while CDMA does not. GSM and CDMA are totally different technologies.
2. February 27th Apple announced the iPad which will be on AT&T 3G. Why would Apple put the iPad on AT&T if they're planning on bringing the iPhone to Verizon? I mean they had the chance to put the iPad on any carrier they wanted. I think Apple is happy with AT&T.
So those are some of my thoughts on the rumored Verizon iPhone. Let's see what happens.
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Hey Ben, just to you know, I am in Florida, where AT&T owns CDMA licenses, so the iphone here is CDMA. In fact, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T are all CDMA here, T-Mobile is the the only GSM. I work as an RF Engineer so my info should be fairly accurate ha ha.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info. Verizon uses the 1900 mhz bands in Florida and Texas which is what AT&T also uses. In the rest of the country it uses the 800 mhz bands. Thanks
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