Wall Street Journal: Verizon announcing iPhone on the 11th

Perhaps you’re one of those people who prefer a second opinion on things. Be it where you’re eating dinner, what movie you’re going to see, or what cell phone Verizon is going to announce on January 11th, you like validation from a third party. The Wall Street Journal has just published a report — citing “a person familiar with the matter” — that states Verizon will indeed pull the curtain on the fabled Verizon iPhone. There you have it, reaffirmation from an additional media outlet. Any skeptics still out there?

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http://twitter.com/Cpuking2009 John debusk

I’m gonna laugh when it doesn’t happen, and then i’m gonna laugh when it does. Why you ask? my line for my Droid Bionic will be shorter :) smiles for me!

Bringit

“smiles”??

AndroidGangsta

I love the iPhone…
Verizon Rep

The vast majority of people who want an iPhone on Verizon are those that have little to no understanding as to what the iPhone actually is. Many people walk around thinking it’s the most feature packed phone on the market. It’s not it lacks several notable features found in its competition. Others think it has a large screen. It doesn’t. It’s smaller than nearly every Droid Screen. Others think the iPhone 4 is a 4G device. It’s not it’s just the fourth model released by Apple. Others think to get a fast speedy phone you need an iPhone. You don’t, it runs the same 1GhZ processor speed as any of the newest Droids and soon will actually pale in comparison to the sleugh of Dual Core Androids on the way within the next month or two. Others think you need it if you want lots of apps. You don’t, Android has nearly 200K apps of which the majority are free compared to Apple who charges for most of theirs. the iPhone cruises by on it’s amazing advertising campaign that has convinced a generation of people that something they clearly don’t understand is the best. It boggles my mind that so many people would want what is essentially an outdated device with proven hardware issues compared to the onslaught of upcoming 4G Androids landing on Verizon within a month or so.

Bringit

or go modern and have your phone accidentally send your sexts to someones momma while waiting for the update to 2.1 froblow.

Danls86

Actually, the update thing IS the manufacturer’s fault (cough cough Samsung…..) and Google has said that they have a fix for the sms issue. Hey look at it this way, at least with my android phone I didn’t have to wait for 2 years for multi-tasking, cut and paste, don’t require a bumper to make a call and can customize things to my desire without jailbreaking. Yea, I can root my phone which I did and it makes things even better but even without rooting Android still can run circles around iOS. Granted, I will give you Apple has a really easy to use, intuitive user interface but I just prefer to have a phone that works…..
Bringit

All that aside – fragmentation is a real and big issue for Android.

DaBaddGuy

Do you think Steve Jobs is purposely gonna rig the Verizon phone for bugs and Antenna-Gate for Verizon not partnering up with them years ago? Hmmmm, I wonder…
Chris

Every year, every couple of months we get another one of these. If or when it hits… it hits. Will I get one? NO. Did you see the Motorola and HTC 4G phones they showed at CES?
Drew

Don’t worry, they’ll be at least 2 more articles just like this leading up to the ANNOUNCEMENT…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Marvin-Smith/100000236735019 Marvin Smith

I wont believe it until I see it lol
jjacobi

Anyone else concerned with the hype of this knowing one major flaw of CDMA hasn’t been addressed? CDMA can’t handle simultaneous voice and data… isn’t that an app killer for iPhone users?

Guest

Besides the fact that I have never met anyone who uses data at the same time as they talk on the phone (i’m sure there are a lot out there, I’ve just never encountered this crowd), the issue is not a problem on LTE which can handle voice and data at the same time.

So far RIM, Android, and WebOS have not suffered sales on verizon because of this lack of voice and data option. Seriously, does every call you make need you to search online for something at the same time? I just really don’t see how vital this is, but eventually it will available on verizon.

izzle

all you android ‘fanboys’ who talked so much crap about the iphone will be the first to jump ship for the iphone once it hits vzw… idiots

Guest

In 2007 this would have been a strong argument. Today, not exactly. People on verizon will switch to an iphone, regardless of what they are using now. People on AT&T will switch to verizon, because that’s the service they wanted with their phone. And people will still buy android phones, because there are more varieties and options outside of apple.

Don’t complain that apple made only 1 model. RIM is a company like apple, and they produce multiple devices. Blame apple for their lack of imagination and inability to stay on top of android and google.

http://twitter.com/white_shadow001 Zach White

Guess what, nobody gives a flying shit anymore, just do it already, but the iphone wont do as well as everyone wants it to… Droid Bionic anyone? HTC Thunderbolt or how about the LG Revo? too little too late apple