New York Times: iPhone announcement in weeks. Yes, we have more.

We passed up the New York Times iPhone story earlier because it didn’t really contain any new product information. We’ve been hearing early October for awhile now in terms of when the iPhone gets released. Therefore, the announcement in ‘weeks’ isn’t news either.

Neither is the 8MP camera which I was on hand to hear Sony CEO Howard Stringer reveal earlier this year. Nor the A5 processor which isn’t even a small stretch. And the best bit:

two people with knowledge of the inner workings of Apple’s next-generation iPhones say either the iPhone 5 or iPhone 6 will include a new chip that is made by Qualcomm.
Helpful.

But here’s some real info: We’ve heard that there are indeed two different models of iPhone coming out next month (announced this month?) We still think October 7th is the scheduled release date give or take any delays. We’ve heard the low-end model, which is essentially an iPhone 4 look-alike (glass front and back), is rolling off the assembly line in big numbers right now. Apple expects to have 10+ million of these things on hand for launch and full ramped production into the holiday shopping season. These will be priced aggressively and be everywhere.

They will also be offered in both prepaid and post paid plans (this is a big deal – more to come on that).

But there is some bad news…



It appears that the tear-drop shaped iPhone 5 with larger screen and thinner, rounder body is seeing continued design and production delays, at least on one assembly line (Apple has multiple production sources – Pegatron, Foxconn, etc). We therefore think that iPhone 5 will be delayed slightly at the very least and may see shortages all the way into 2012.

The iPhone 5 itself is a sight to behold, we’ve been told. It is impossibly light, yet much firmer than Samsung Galaxy phones which are backed in plastic. The camera rivals point and shoot cameras and will be a major marketing point for this device.

As you probably know, information comes fast and furious in the run up to announcements. We’ll have lots more coming soon.

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Verizon to offer unlimited iPhone data plans. What about browsing while talking?

Verizon said they would be phasing out their unlimited data plans but today, the Wall Street Journal reports these unlimited data plans will be sticking around for the iPhone. Verizon offering unlimited data plans for the iPhone is a real incentive for people debating whether to get the AT&T or Verizon model in the U.S. This is because AT&T phased out unlimited data plans when the iPhone 4 launched in June.

Another thing to think about is Verizon’s no browsing while talking restriction. AT&T allows their phone users to browse the web over 3G, for example, while talking on the phone. Reports emerged recently emerged that Verizon would soon remove the restriction, leading to increased speculation about an iPhone for Verizon. Verizon is expected to finally unveil their CDMA iPhone on Tuesday, January 11 with the device going on sale in late January or early February.




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Steve Jobs to Appear at Verizon iPhone Event? (Gizmodo Not Invited)

Steve Jobs will likely make an appearance at what is predicted to be a Verizon iPhone event, according to Digital Daily.

While the appearance isn’t 100 percent assured, sources in a position to know tell me that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Jobs will likely join McAdam onstage in New York when he announces the addition of the iPhone to its handset lineup.

The WSJ has also confirmed the event will announce the CDMA iPhone. The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

Additional confirmation comes from Gizmodo's missing invite. Here's what's key: We're great friends with Verizon. (Hi guys!) We've worked with them for years, and we've been to like every event they've had over the last three years. We haven't gotten an invite. Which is weird. And Jim Dalrymple, who received an invite, only writes about Apple and doesn't cover Verizon directly. We've reached out to Verizon to see why, exactly, we weren't invited, but we've gotten no comment yet. (Update: Verizon's official response is a big ol' no comment.)

We'll bring you more information as it becomes available...




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Verizon Sends Out Invitations to iPhone Press Event?

Verizon is sending out invitations to a special press event that will be held on Tuesday, January 11th in New York City .

TechCrunch's MG Siegler notes that this invite is a bit different than normal.

"Well, for one thing, I don’t typically get invites directly from Verizon to anything. At least not that I can recall. They usually send those directly to the MobileCrunch and CrunchGear guys. But this invite appears to very specifically be for me — it’s non-transferable. Would Verizon send me such an invite unless it was specially about Apple?"

Interestingly, Apple blogger Jim Dalrymple for TheLoop has also received an invitation. Many believe this event will be used to announce the CDMA Verizon iPhone which is expected to launch on February 3rd.




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February 3rd is Verizon iPhone launch

BGR uses several factors to come to their conclusion: Apple Employee Blackout dates of February 3rd and February 6th, Verizon Thursday Launches, and some earlier reports to conclude that February 3rd is D Day for the Verizon iPhone. That would put an announcement between now and then with perhaps some iPad 2 news as well (iPad 1 was announced in January but there wasn’t a ‘remaining iPads in inventory’ issue then).

Anyway. We’re hyped! (More below)

Related news claims “Verizon is having another one of their mandatory face-to-face training sessions for an “iconic pre-order”, this one scheduled for January 25 to February 4, 2011,” says BGR (they’re tracking this).




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Verizon iPhone to Launch on February 3rd?

BGR has confirmed with a source close to Apple that employee vacation requests between February 3rd and February 6th are blocked.

Back in June of last year, Apple picked the dates of 24th to the 27th for its iPhone 4 weekend launch — also a Thursday through Sunday. In addition, Verizon Wireless typically launches new devices on Thursdays. While BGR has not yet confirmed that the Verizon iPhone is the device we’ll see debut on the 3rd, the timing lines up very well with previous reports; no other Apple products have been rumored to be launching in this time frame.




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Breaking news on Verizon Apple deal!

According to our source, Apple and Verizon have made a deal and are going to release Verizon branded products (iPhone 4 & iPad(current generations)) sometime in the first two quarters of 2011. This source gave us very accurate news when the iPhone 4 was being released and quantities that would be available. The source also stated that there has been talk of a 7-8 inch offering from Apple. Another source stated that the only way Verizon got the deal in is that Verizon would lag behind AT&T by one year give or take a few months...






IMO I will not believe this until I see it with my own eyes! Even though our sources have proven there worth it is to big of a story to believe it just like that, what happened to the 5yr contract? Between AT&T and Apple?


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Apple to Announce Verizon iPhone by Valentine's Day?

Apple may announce a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 that works on Verizon by Valentine's Day, according to BusinessWeek.

Apple's introduction of an iPhone for use on Verizon's network will come sometime after the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, according to a person familiar with Apple's plans who is not authorized to discuss them publicly.

The article surmises that the blow to AT&T may not be as bad as suggested, mainly because most customers are either locked into a contract or will not want to go through the hassle of switching carriers.

Still, even if AT&T loses more than twice as many customers as Hodulik projects, the carrier will not suffer a fatal blow. If 6 million of its customers defect, the $6 billion in lost annual revenue would amount to about 10 percent of AT&T's wireless sales in 2011, according to UBS projections. The $6 billion would be 4.8 percent of its total projected sales of $126 billion in 2011.

Earlier this month, AT&T started moving up iPhone 4 eligibility dates for some customers in what was seen as an effort to lock down as many contracts as possible before Verizon gets the device.




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AT&T Moving Up iPhone 4 Eligibility Dates?

AT&T may be moving up iPhone 4 eligibility dates for some customers in an effort to lock down as many contracts as possible before Verizon gets the iPhone.

MacStories reports, "My upgrade eligibility is not up until mid-February, 2011. I know because I check, often. It’s always been that … until today. I just got an email not 30 minutes ago from AT&T and is said that I am now eligible to upgrade to the new Apple iPhone 4. Why 2 months early? Could this indeed mean Verizon could be showing off their iPhone after Christmas?"

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Verizon iPhone to be LTE Device, Release Right After Christmas?

Verizon and Apple will reportedly announce a LTE iPhone 4 right after Christmas, according to a MacDailyNews source.

The site posts the following points obtained from their source:

• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• Formal announcement coming right "after christmas", was
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; "Apparently ATT's final demand so as to maximize ATT's Christmas iPhone sales"
• The Verizon iPhone will be immediately available upon formal announcement
• Device has been "100% cooked for quite a while" and already shipping in bulk to Verizon warehouses
• The Verizon iPhone is not being shipped to any 3rd-party retailers in an effort to control leaks
• Verizon agreed to take 100% responsibility for security, so all the devices will be in their hands until the official announcement date, and they will then distribute through channels in massive manner (hence early stockpiling)
• The new iPhone is an LTE device and that fact - the only "LTE iPhone," exclusive to Verizon - will be the main marketing theme; i.e. "For the new '4G' (cough) verizon network" that Verizon has already started promoting
• As rollout of LTE not actually widespread, Verizon iPhone will have multi-band chip backward compatibility with regular CDMA
• iPhone 5 was planned to debut in summer as LTE-only, for all contracted carriers, but the clock is ticking and nobody thinks either Verizon or AT&T can get to critical mass to offer an LTE-only version
• Steve Jobs is said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly
• Apple is "helping" U.S. carriers (money?) to build out LTE more quickly

Verizon launched its 4G LTE Network in 38 major metropolitan areas on December 5th. The company expects 4G LTE average data rates in real-world, loaded network environments to be 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.




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Yet again we have the rumor that just wont die! I doubt AT&T would just give-up exclusivity just like that! I'm on apples side of this battle but think about it, the iPhone revived a dying company who had to change it's name back and Goethe just to keep and or attract new customers, Cingular, then AT&T, then Cingular again, and now AT&T...
AT&T is now worth more than Verizon, all thanks to the iPhone, which they should be keeping exclusively until 2012, and only in 2013 will AT&T's control in this USA iPhone be broken.. If I was the CEO of AT&T I would want a pretty penny for the break in the exclusivity, or even not allow it if possible.

All I know 100% is that if this is true will are going to start a countdown, how long it will take for the iPhone to wipeout android and blackberry... Don't forget the only reason that android is so successful is that they have a enormous amount of phones running the OS if they would have stayed with the nexus one until the nexus 2 would have been released then I'm 100% sure that even sybian would have a greater saturation than android. Once the iPhone is on multiple carriers it will dominate the market!


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Munster Says Apple Made Two Big Errors When Launching the iPhone

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says 'Apple has made two meaningful errors since its entrance into the iPhone business in 2007'

● The company did not originally subsidize the iPhone, but it quickly corrected this error by offering the original iPhone at a lower price shortly after its release, and offering the iPhone 3G at a subsidized price one year after the original iPhone launched
● We also believe that Apple's exclusive agreement with AT&T has limited demand for the device. We expect Apple to correct this issue by the end of [the first half of 2011] and add Verizon to the list of carriers that sell the iPhone in the US.

Munster believes the fact that only AT&T is carrying the iPhone is why Google Android phones are outselling iPhones in the United States.

"As an example, in countries where the iPhone is available on multiple carriers and competes with Android, we see the iPhone outselling Android. The greatest factor in the success of Android has been Verizon. Customers are loyal to their carrier, and once Verizon gets the iPhone, we believe Android's success in the US will be tested."




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Apple Got Favorable Terms in Verizon iPhone Deal?

Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says Apple got the terms it wanted from Verizon in negotiations to offer the iPhone on their network, according to FORTUNE.

Wu says he is "picking up that iPhone economics to Apple are likely to be favorable, similar to that offered by AT&T."

"This is important as many, including ourselves, have been concerned that VZ iPhone economics could be less favorable given the strength of Android and higher cost of components, particularly those associated with CDMA."

Wu also believes that part of the deal was for Apple not to offer the device to T-Mobile or Spring.

"We are hearing that VZ does not want iPhone, the hottest selling smart phone, available on T-Mobile USA and/or Sprint and may be willing to pay for exclusivity to itself and AT&T."




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Verizon Hiring 1,700 Customer Service Reps Ahead of iPhone Launch?

Verizon may have begun its preparations for the launch of the iPhone on its network, according to a CNET report.

The hiring companies, Salt Lake City-based Teleperformance and Kennesaw, Ga.-based Ryla, are hiring at facilities around the country, with Ryla advertising for 1,700 positions in Indiana, California, Virginia, and Colorado.

Though few of the job postings specify which company the new employees will be taking calls for, Teleperformance's Careerbuilder post says employees in Pennsylvania will field calls for a "major wireless cell phone service retailer."

Although rumors of a Verizon iPhone have been rampant for some time, both the NYT and the WSJ have recently "confirmed" that the carrier will in fact launch the device early next year.




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Yea they are going to have a lot of angry calls to answer when people relies there is no iPhone for verizon until 2013, atts 5yr deal ends with 2012 and any company will only be able to get it the next year..


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