Rumor: Verizon iPhone by Holiday Season?

By Cam Bunton May 31, 2010 1:36 pm EST Comments

The whole “will they, won’t they?” saga has been dealt another trump card. According to reports by The Street, Apple has ordered production of it’s CDMA version to be in full swing by as early as November. Now, sure, we’re all expecting that Jobs will unveil a fantastic and “revolutionary” device in a week’s time at the WWDC, but will he also announce plans for a Verizon friendly version? The one thing that really gets me is that a while back it was revealed that Cupertino has an exclusivity deal with AT&T until 2012. Does this mean Verizon is getting kinda itchy, and fed up that the competition is selling millions while it’s stuck in the dark with only a few snazzy Android’s to keep it’s cash flowing?

I realize I’m throwing many more questions up in the air than supplying a definitive answer. I guess that’s because I’m really not sure if this rumor is just that, or is, in fact, the truth. Rodman Renshaw analyst, Ashok Kumar, states that Apple has ordered it’s manufacturers of the current iPhone to increase it’s productivity by up to as much as 4 million iPhones a month by September, a 25% increase on the current level. It’s within the same report, he states that Cupertino has ordered full scale manufacture of a CDMA iPhone.

So if this is true, I guess a lot of you guys on Verizon could already know what they’ll be writing to Santa requesting, if not, it could be yet another frustrating year for fanboys everywhere who can’t get AT&T reception.

Via: Phonedog, The Street

ricardo

i hope t-mobile gets the iphone i been waiting for it. now that my contract is over if t-mobile doesnt get it im willing to change to anyone that gets it

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i hope the iphone come to Verizon or Sprint it would be better then t mobile but t mobile would be the last to get it t mobile network could not handle it it would be at&t all over again but we will see on June 7

Iphonegeek0422

What I think, and it might be pretty farfetched, I think that Apple will release just the 3G or a different dumbed-down (compared to the (hopefully) 4th iPhone) version of the iPhone. Then they could have an easier time getting out of the contract.

Skyler.(:

I Couldnt Agree More 'T'.!! I'm A TMobile Customer And Always Has Been.! I've Been Wanting The iPhone , But Everytime My Contract Ends , A New , Snazzy Phone Comes Out For TMobile So...

The iPhone better come to T-Mobile first, before it goes to another lousy, over-priced, hidden fees network like verizon! I am sick of waiting for the iPhone to leave AT&T, and very tired of jail broken iPhones just running on T-Mobile's EDGE network, Apple, make a T-Mobile 3G iPhone! All of us T-Mobile customers have been waiting for the iPhone to come since day one, and believe it or not, we are still impatiently waiting.