{"id":40143,"date":"2009-11-11T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79315"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:56:02","slug":"verizon-to-launch-an-iphone-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40143","title":{"rendered":"Verizon to Launch an iPhone Next Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"iphone3g\"The mobile space has long buzzed with rumors of a Verizon Wireless version of the iPhone<\/a>, and according to Northeast Securities, the device may finally arrive next year. Citing its supply-chain checks, the financial services firm said in a research note issued today that Apple will launch a WCDMA\/CDMA2000-enabled version of the device — not an LTE version — through Verizon by the summer of 2010.<\/p>\n

Northeast Securities’ note jibes with a new report from OTR Global via AppleInsider<\/a>, which claims that Apple plans to roll out a hybrid iPhone — enabling the Cupertino company to sell a single global handset “to all carriers” — by the third quarter of next year. Similar to Northeast Securities, OTR Global said the phone would use a new hybrid chip produced by Qualcomm that would allow the iPhone to support Verizon’s network in addition to retaining compatibility with UMTS 3G networks.<\/p>\n

As Sebastian noted last month<\/a>, Apple could benefit greatly from loosening AT&T’s stranglehold on the iPhone in the U.S., and Verizon would surely love to kick out a key pillar of AT&T’s growth<\/a> from the past year. While Verizon’s former lone-wolf strategy wouldn’t play well with Apple’s tightly controlled App Store, the nation’s largest carrier seems to have softened its go-it-alone stance as it embraces Google with its Droid initiative<\/a>. A Verizon\/Apple tie-up might have been unthinkable to many of us a year ago, but it’s looking more and more like an inevitability.<\/p>\n

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The mobile space has long buzzed with rumors of a Verizon Wireless version of the iPhone, and according to Northeast Securities, the device may finally arrive next year. Citing its supply-chain checks, the financial services firm said in a research note issued today that Apple will launch a WCDMA\/CDMA2000-enabled version of the device — not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}