Just when you thought the “iPhone heading to Verizon” rumor mill has slowed down, a Susquehanna Financial Group analyst has claimed that CDMA iPhones will start production in December 2010. Here’s the scoop from AppleInsider:
Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group said in a note to investors on Wednesday that checks with overseas suppliers indicated Apple is prepared to build 3 million CDMA iPhones in December, keeping the device on track for an early 2011 launch.
On one hand, the number seems awfully low, so perhaps these phones are for one of the Asian markets. On the other hand, a lot of people are expecting Verizon’s CEO to focus on the iPhone 4 during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address.
I’ve asked you this like 49 times this year, but what do you think of the latest CDMA iPhone rumor? Will it hit Sprint or Verizon in January 2011? Or are these phones headed elsewhere? Or maybe the analyst is just Pachter wrong.
Last thing I heard from a Verizon sales rep. was that the iPhone wouldn't be coming to Verizon networks, all the CDMA iPhones out there somewhere would go to Sprint, and that Apple was designing another phone for Verizon specifically.
In short, I'm not gonna believe anything on this until I hear confirmation from Verizon and Apple in unison on this issue or until I see it for myself.
Mobile phones are just letting me down big time right now.
@bsukenyan An LTE iPhone would make much more sense for Verizon. The network will be ready in 30 markets by the end of the year. Perhaps that explains the low number?
Also, I've decided that you have bad taste in mobile phones. I still can't believe you've dismissed all Android phones but were considering a BlackBerry. :P
This won't happen at CES. Jobs would have his own thing rather than debut a new product there.
LTE for Verizon I believe, not EVDO
@Ray
haha. not bad taste, just different preferences. I like the android OS pretty well, but the physical phone seems to be not as important anymore in comparison to the OS, IMO. It is tougher for me to find a physical phone that I am satisfied with that I will probably just have to adjust to the OS that it runs whenever I find that phone. I am still open to android if they ever make a phone that I like well enough that runs that OS.
However, I did really like the Nexus One that a professor of mine had that I got to look at. That might be one phone that I could get used to that runs android, but I don't have that kind of money to actually buy one.
@bsukenyan I'd take an Evo 4G, Droid X, Epic 4G, or Fascinate over the Nexus One.