Will the iPhone ever make it to Verizon?

[ScottC]

I just got the Motorola CLIQ, their first ever Android phone. And if the CLIQ shows how the DROID will be, I'm not impressed.

Lots of little (and big) bugs, and small design flaws.

Not impressed. HTC has at least two years of experience with Android phones, which puts them miles ahead of Motorola.

[dtsm]

Another opinion re the original question:
http://business.theatlantic.com/2009...an_for_att.php

[dtsm]

And from the Chairman himself: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thre...gn_id=rss_tech

[dtsm]

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/06/...ne-in-q3-2010/

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...n_q3_2010.html

[PorkRind]

Originally Posted by dtsm

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/06/...ne-in-q3-2010/

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...n_q3_2010.html

Well, that would figure. Apple designs a phone for CDMA that's practically obsolete as soon as it hits the stores. Verizon should have LTE rolled out in most of the major markets by the end of Q3, and this phone doesn't appear to do LTE.

[wco81]

Won't Verizon have CDMA for a few years, even if they put up an LTE network across the country?

For one thing, 80 million customers aren't going to get LTE phones over night.

[PorkRind]

Originally Posted by wco81

Won't Verizon have CDMA for a few years, even if they put up an LTE network across the country?

For one thing, 80 million customers aren't going to get LTE phones over night.

Of course they're not. But why introduce a data-intensive phone like the iPhone without LTE support when Verizon will also be marketing the hell out of its 4G network at the same time?

CDMA will still be used for voice communications for quite some time. LTE in the near term addresses data only . . . but data is the reason you buy a smartphone.

[FlyMeToTheLooneyBin]

There is talk of an iPhone world phone that supports both CDMA and GSM.

[PorkRind]

Originally Posted by FlyMeToTheLooneyBin

There is talk of an iPhone world phone that supports both CDMA and GSM.

Yes, in the 4 posts preceding yours.