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.

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

Verizon Still Wants the iPhone (Despite those Droid Ads)
 

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

Hot off the press
 

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. :rolleyes:

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.

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

Yes, in the 4 posts preceding yours.

Fresh speculation

With all the nasty ads between Verizon / AT&T / iPhone, surprising that Apple would consider this (especially since Steve Jobs has a huge ego). Why not do Sprint to spite Verizon?

Not Interested...
 

Until I an talk and browse at the same time, I'm not interested in the iPhone on Verizon. I don't need or want a "dumb" smartphone.

Well VErizon is trying to ramp up their LTE network as soon as possible. So even if for a year or two they have to sell a CDMA iPhone, there's a lot of money to be made.

That's why they'd cut a deal, all these cute commercials aside.

I am getting SO frickin' sick of the "iPhone on VZW" rumor. It seems to resurface whenever Apple has a pending product announcement. It's as though WSJ knows there'll be an iPhone product refresh this summer and wanted to spice up the story a bit.

I genuinely believe that Apple doesn't see the value in trying to support versions of the iPhone with different radios; their business model thus far has been to sell one version of the iPhone internationally - with GSM/UMTS - and I don't see any reason for that to change this year. Apple didn't release a CDMA-EVDO rev 0/A iPhone two years ago, when the 3G came out, and with every passing year the LTE deployment approaches, giving Apple even less incentive to support a technology that will soon be outmoded.

It is my firm belief that the iPhone will only appear on VZW a) when VZW lights up their LTE network, bringing their radio technology in line with AT&T and b) if VZW agrees to let Apple maintain control of the OS, features and (this is the big one) the App Store/mobile iTunes downloads. It can't be one - Apple will have to have both to move forward with Verizon.

Critic expresses my thoughts 100%. Rumor and fact in the Apple world are vastly different animals and the WSJ track record on accuracy of Apple stories is not stellar.