Verizon iPhone to be LTE Device, Release Right After Christmas?

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Posted December 13, 2010 at 11:54am by iClarified

Verizon and Apple will reportedly announce a LTE iPhone 4 right after Christmas, according to a MacDailyNews source.

The site posts the following points obtained from their source:

• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• Formal announcement coming right "after christmas", was
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; "Apparently ATT's final demand so as to maximize ATT's Christmas iPhone sales"
• The Verizon iPhone will be immediately available upon formal announcement
• Device has been "100% cooked for quite a while" and already shipping in bulk to Verizon warehouses
• The Verizon iPhone is not being shipped to any 3rd-party retailers in an effort to control leaks
• Verizon agreed to take 100% responsibility for security, so all the devices will be in their hands until the official announcement date, and they will then distribute through channels in massive manner (hence early stockpiling)
• The new iPhone is an LTE device and that fact - the only "LTE iPhone," exclusive to Verizon - will be the main marketing theme; i.e. "For the new '4G' (cough) verizon network" that Verizon has already started promoting
• As rollout of LTE not actually widespread, Verizon iPhone will have multi-band chip backward compatibility with regular CDMA
• iPhone 5 was planned to debut in summer as LTE-only, for all contracted carriers, but the clock is ticking and nobody thinks either Verizon or AT&T can get to critical mass to offer an LTE-only version
• Steve Jobs is said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly
• Apple is "helping" U.S. carriers (money?) to build out LTE more quickly

Verizon launched its 4G LTE Network in 38 major metropolitan areas on December 5th. The company expects 4G LTE average data rates in real-world, loaded network environments to be 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.

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Gurkha - December 14, 2010 at 6:52pm

Counting the days before I switch back to Verizon. ATT as the worst coverage in my area.

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Hash - December 13, 2010 at 1:01pm

Interesting... Expect a lot of disgruntled AT&T customers to switch. I hope they leave in a sim card so you can still use the phone internationally. The only thing I like about CDMA or LTE, is that once your phone is stolen, its pretty much useless to anyone who tries using it as a phone.

Question - December 13, 2010 at 2:02pm

Is this the iPhone 5 planned for july or just a iPhone 4 with LTE??

g35holdem - December 13, 2010 at 6:57pm

The 4G phones will have SIM cards but they will be 4G SIM cards and will not work internationally, at least at launch, because there aren't many other countries that currently support LTE (although many will in the near future). Verizon chose LTE because it is going to become the global standard for 4G within the next few years but until then your 4G Verizon iPhone will only work in the US