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Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?

By | January 7, 2011, 7:25am PST

Summary: February will be a busy month for mobile with HP’s webOS event, Mobile World Congress, and maybe even an Apple iPhone announcement for Verizon.

We have been hearing about rumors of a Verizon iPhone for a couple of years now, but it will happen for sure in 2011 and according to Boy Genius Report Apple will likely announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd.

As we saw this week at CES, AT&T was busy announcing high end Android smartphones as the writing on the wall indicates they will be losing their exclusive hold on the iPhone soon and need something else to try to retain customers. I imagine lots of people will be jumping from AT&T to Verizon due to the better network Verizon offers for many people. It will be very interesting to see how the Verizon network performs with millions of iPhone customers using data and it should indicate whether it was AT&T’s network that fails all the time or if it is the iPhone that jams up the network.

This February 3rd date could also just be the iPad 2 and we may have to wait longer for a Verizon iPhone, but I am very confident it will happen sometime this year and it makes sense that it happens earlier since it will NOT have support for LTE.

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Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
Loverock Davidson 7th Jan 2011
I wish they would announce WP7 on Feb. 3rd, I'm in need of a new phone.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
cyberslammer2 7th Jan 2011
@Loverock Davidson Keep using your flop device loserboy.
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That's hilarious!
trickytom3 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2

How do you come up with these increbible retorts? Tell the truth...you're a professional writer, aren't you? Nobody could wind such brilliance and sophisticated wit into just one short post without many years of professional experience.

All I can say is...keep 'em coming, because your posts have become a beacon of light in an otherwise dark-age.

How does one even create the poetry of a phrase such as "flop device", or the etymological magic of the word "loserboy"?

Tell, us, darling...what cerebral witchcraft are you practicing in that mind of yours?
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
cyberslammer2 7th Jan 2011
@trickytom300 The same that you use to rant about the iPad being a toy, iOS 4.2 not working on the iPad, multi-tasking not being able to be handled by the iPad.....

Any of these ring a bell choade boy?
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You're an idiot, dude.
AllKnowingAllSeeing 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2
If you take your head out of your a$$, you might see how stupid you look to everyone else.
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AllKnowingAllSeeing is Right..
trickytom3 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2

You really DO look like an idiot to everyone-else.
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@cyberidiot
SonofaSailor 7th Jan 2011
OWNED. TWICE.
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or 1/11/11 or 7/1/11 or even 12/21/12
Bruizer Updated - 7th Jan 2011
I will believe it when I see/hear it.
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Continuing to beat this dead horse?
JT82 7th Jan 2011
Really it needs to stop - there is no evidence except wild speculation and parroting of the existing rumor mill.
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Would Be Awesome News
cyberslammer2 7th Jan 2011
The mass migration to Verizon would unclog the AT&T network, then Verizon would have a massive complaint on their hands that their service sucks and AT&T would improve.

Can't wait.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
JT82 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2 It's not AT&T's network (entirely). It's how the iPhone is - it sucks at being a "phone".
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Nah. I'm going to guess that
John Zern 7th Jan 2011
cyberslammer's gonna say that he has the best reception he's ever had with a phone in refernce to the iPhone.

In other words, all the other people complaining about dropped or unconnected calls on their iPhones are either blaming the wrong part (the phone) or don't count because he's never had the problem himself.
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murving 7th Jan 2011
@JT82 In Canada we don't seem to have all these issues with dropped calls on the Iphone or really any smartphone to be honest. Up here the Iphone is available on all 3 of our national carriers.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
cyberslammer2 7th Jan 2011
@John Zern Hey John, do us all a favor and shut up.

I do have great reception where I live, haven't had a single issue with it....

If you would READ most of the majority of the iPhone network issues are in SF/NY...but you wouldn't know since you don't read do you?
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Why are you getting so upset at every one?
AllKnowingAllSeeing Updated - 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2

You have been asking for the notoriety all along, and now that you have it you want people to stop? Isn't fame a b-itch?
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Not really as Verizon has the better network
John Zern 7th Jan 2011
@cyberslammer2.
You're placing too much blame on the phone, and not the carrier.

As it is now, Verizon and AT&T are pretty much the same size, but Verizon doesn't have the complaints that AT&T have.

Add to that the non-iPhone users who have no issues with making calls or receiving data on a non-Apple phone, and you'll see that it is the iPhone that's making dropped calls, and AT&T with the poor coverage.
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Scram PUNK
SonofaSailor 7th Jan 2011
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No one cares...the hype is now noise
kaneb80 7th Jan 2011
2 years ago this would've been news. Now we'd rather see new development but Google seems to move faster.
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you will be surprised
banned from zdnet 7th Jan 2011
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.. of the long lines of eager verizon customers lining up for the iphone in february.
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Though I read it was going to be Feb 14th
AllKnowingAllSeeing 7th Jan 2011
but at this point in the game, everybody's just guessing.
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Hey, it's Cyberslammer!
trickytom3 7th Jan 2011
@banned from zdnet

Hey, everybody...Cyberslammer is back as "banned from zdnet"...

Did you know that's his other ID? He denies it, of course, but I know it for a FACT.
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Enough, already...this is too boring.
trickytom3 7th Jan 2011
Seriously, how long are they going to drag out this drama? Who really cares?

It's a boring fanboy story.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
hawks5999 7th Jan 2011
Clear sign that there is no news is another Verizon iPhone "story". What part of 5 year exclusive agreement is so hard to understand? Or is the math of 2007+5 just that hard?
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
rengek 7th Jan 2011
If the iphone arrives at verizon my question is why does it just have to be verizon. Seems to me if they want to diversify shouldn't they also arrive on sprint and t-mobile. Its basically the same phone for sprint as verizon. Why reduce your market?
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
glen@... 7th Jan 2011
But will it work well as an honest to God, telephone? To hear tell, none of these smartass phones are worth two hoots when you try to make a phone call!
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It will never happen because Verizon wants control of
frgough 7th Jan 2011
the phone, and Apple won't let them have it.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
Tiggster 7th Jan 2011
@frgough Verizon won't have control over WP7, yet its coming to their network. What's so different about the iPhone?
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Apple's doing fine on AT&T
AllKnowingAllSeeing 7th Jan 2011
@frgough
so what benefit would it be for Apple to have it run on Verizon's network?
It's not like they would get a lot of sales from it or anything like that.
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RE: Will Apple announce the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd?
MadYank 7th Jan 2011
I've had Phones from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung, and I've had them on AT&T, Bell Atlantic (which was probably AT&T) and Cingular (which became AT&T). NEVER had a problem.
I have friends who have had Nokia and Samsung phones on Verizon, no problem. I have friends who had Nokia and Samsung phones on T-Mobile and couldn't get a signal - PROBLEM, since I had a signal, and so did the Verizon phones (special circumstances - West-by-God-Virginia mountains).
NOW, people are whining about iPhones, and iPads, and iPods - OH MY!
Sounds like we're off to see the Wizard again.
The wonderful Wizard called Jobs.

I've seen the movie before; I'm going for popcorn.
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Still pricey
wayne62682 Updated - 7th Jan 2011
Verizon's phone plans are almost as ridiculously priced as AT&T: $30/month minimum just for having a smartphone, plus at least another $40 if you want to be able to talk on the phone, PLUS at least another $15 if you want to be able to text anyone.

Utterly crazy. The quality might be better, but you're still paying a huge sum each month. Last I checked, Sprint has plans where it's like $70/month with everything included, none of this extra upon extra upon extra like AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile try to pull.
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Keep dreaming...
the.ksmm 7th Jan 2011
I hope that Verizon never gets the iPhone, because I'm not sure what you Verizon fanboys will have to hope for after that. Your lives will truly lose all meaning once you realize that their network responds to load in the same way as everyone else's.
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