I gotta call BS on this one. iPhone coming to Verizon with WM6.

**Cr@xH3aDMcg33** · 09-30-2008, 09:56 AM

Verizon getting a CDMA iPhone that runs Windows Mobile, clears acne

by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 29th 2008 at 3:50PM

Rumors are coming fast and furious today citing unnamed tipsters that Apple is hard at work hammering out a CDMA iPhone for its friends at Verizon to be announced and released next year, the carrier it had initially approached about carrying the device back in 2005. Way we see it, though, 2009 ain't 2005; Apple's wielding boatloads more power in the wireless biz than it was before the first model launched, the industry's economics have changed, and technology roadmaps have been rewritten.

So why isn't this happening, exactly? First, Apple appears to be having no trouble finding enough customers (carriers, that is) to keep iPhone 3G production at a nice clip. Second, CDMA represents a minute fraction of the world's mobile customer base that GSM / UMTS does -- no matter how big Verizon, Sprint, Telus, Bell, KDDI au, and the remaining CDMA stalwarts may be. Third, CDMA is a dying technology that will be finished off in the early part of the next decade as networks make the migration to LTE and other 4G platforms. Fourth, we have to believe Apple would sooner pour its engineering efforts into advancing the iPhone platform in the same direction as the world's networks than divert considerable resources to busting out a one-off special.

Might this mythical CDMA iPhone yet exist? Yeah, Verizon's a huge carrier, and yes, stranger things have happened -- but until Steve and Ivan get on stage together at Macworld 2009, we're not buying it.

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**Vertabreaker** · 09-30-2008, 09:57 AM

It's not gonna happen.

**CHAOS** · 09-30-2008, 09:57 AM

lol mac mobile os > windows mobile

**BTR** · 09-30-2008, 10:42 AM

wow. super horse shit.

**teh_sysadmin** · 09-30-2008, 10:51 AM

wait wait wait...

didn't Verizon get rid of the CDMA standard in 2008? that or it's not supported anymore?

**warman** · 09-30-2008, 10:58 AM

i bet verizon will charge $600 for one.

**teh_sysadmin** · 09-30-2008, 10:59 AM

i see the commercials now...

"damnit Chad, how come you guys are having iPhones now"

"now you're a super ding-dong"

**Vissionary** · 09-30-2008, 12:23 PM

what a terrible thread.

09-30-2008, 09:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cr@xH3aDMcg33 SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 25,110 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 38^th	I gotta call BS on this one. iPhone coming to Verizon with WM6. Verizon getting a CDMA iPhone that runs Windows Mobile, clears acne by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 29th 2008 at 3:50PM Rumors are coming fast and furious today citing unnamed tipsters that Apple is hard at work hammering out a CDMA iPhone for its friends at Verizon to be announced and released next year, the carrier it had initially approached about carrying the device back in 2005. Way we see it, though, 2009 ain't 2005; Apple's wielding boatloads more power in the wireless biz than it was before the first model launched, the industry's economics have changed, and technology roadmaps have been rewritten. So why isn't this happening, exactly? First, Apple appears to be having no trouble finding enough customers (carriers, that is) to keep iPhone 3G production at a nice clip. Second, CDMA represents a minute fraction of the world's mobile customer base that GSM / UMTS does -- no matter how big Verizon, Sprint, Telus, Bell, KDDI au, and the remaining CDMA stalwarts may be. Third, CDMA is a dying technology that will be finished off in the early part of the next decade as networks make the migration to LTE and other 4G platforms. Fourth, we have to believe Apple would sooner pour its engineering efforts into advancing the iPhone platform in the same direction as the world's networks than divert considerable resources to busting out a one-off special. Might this mythical CDMA iPhone yet exist? Yeah, Verizon's a huge carrier, and yes, stranger things have happened -- but until Steve and Ivan get on stage together at Macworld 2009, we're not buying it. Read __________________ PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!!!!!!!!!!!

09-30-2008, 09:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
Vertabreaker SOT N3rd Mod +1 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The phone booth across the street Posts: 10,357 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 59^th	It's not gonna happen. __________________ Every man dies, not every man really lives.

09-30-2008, 09:57 AM	#3 (permalink)
CHAOS SOT Screwdriver Goes Where Mod Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fucking Bullshit. Posts: 20,245 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 44^th	lol mac mobile os > windows mobile __________________ SOT - you aint... no goon.

09-30-2008, 10:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
teh_sysadmin SOT Post Whore Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: teh cubicle bunker Posts: 2,892	wait wait wait... didn't Verizon get rid of the CDMA standard in 2008? that or it's not supported anymore? __________________ SOT My anti- So, how's all that "hope" and "change" working out for you?

09-30-2008, 10:58 AM	#6 (permalink)
warman SOT Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: MD Posts: 6,326 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 40^th	i bet verizon will charge $600 for one. __________________

09-30-2008, 10:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
BTR SOT Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,411	wow. super horse shit.

09-30-2008, 10:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
teh_sysadmin SOT Post Whore Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: teh cubicle bunker Posts: 2,892	i see the commercials now... "damnit Chad, how come you guys are having iPhones now" "now you're a super ding-dong" __________________ SOT My anti- So, how's all that "hope" and "change" working out for you?

09-30-2008, 12:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
Vissionary SOT Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 45,047 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 43^rd	what a terrible thread. __________________ SOT - Assraping the interwebz since 2006

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