Verizon iPhone Could Arrive Next Year After All
After Verizon aired advertisements bashing the iPhone, many tech observers agreed it was unimaginable that Apple could be considering sharing the popular smartphone with Verizon. But a new report suggests the contrary.
Apple is indeed delivering a Verizon iPhone in the third quarter of 2010, claims research firm OTR Global. The firm cites sources who say Apple is working on a “worldmode” iPhone compatible with Verizon’s CDMA network. (Apple’s current iPhones only work on the GSM standard, which AT&T’s network is part of.)
The firm’s report, which was provided to AppleInsider, also claims the handset will have a smaller screen — 2.8 inches, significantly smaller than the current iPhone’s 3.5-inch display.
Whispers of a different iPhone being developed for Verizon were exchanged back in April. BusinessWeek cited two sources “familiar with the matter” saying Apple and Verizon were working to offer two new iPhone-like devices: a smaller, less-expensive calling device (perhaps an “iPhone lite”), and a more expensive, unnamed media pad, which can place calls over Wi-Fi, display photos, and play music as well as high-definition video.
Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T will reportedly end in 2010, and many observers speculated that the Cupertino, California company would then share the iPhone with Verizon. However, the consensus quickly reversed when Verizon aired its Droid TV ads ruthlessly attacking the shortcomings of the iPhone.
See Also:
- Verizon iPhone? Don’t Hold Your Breath
- Verizon iPhone Could be Here Next Year
- Verizon Attacks the iPhone, Hints at Upcoming Droid
- 4 Reasons Apple Should Share the iPhone With Verizon
- Rumor: Apple Developing Two New iPhones for Verizon
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Droid Eris turns up in Verizon training course
Again, we have no idea why Verizon is burying the launch of the HTC Droid Eris alongside the Motorola Droid tomorrow (well, apart from the slow CPU and older Android build) but if you had any doubts that Big Red was going to launch this riff on the Hero, well, these screenshots of the employee training course should put those to rest. Interestingly, the buttons and logo placement are slightly different from the pic that was leaked to gdgt, but this version certainly looks like what Eric Schmidt was holding the other day, so we’re thinking this is the final iteration. We’ll see what’s what tomorrow, we suppose.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Droid Eris turns up in Verizon training course originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: Android, DroidEris, HtcDesire, HtcDroidEris, desire, droid, droid eris, htc, htc desire, htc droid eris, leak, leaks, rumor, rumors, verizon
The TwitterPeek is… a Peek for Twitter?
Peek’s never been one to shy away from the wacky and opportunistic marketing schemes but launching a whole product just for Twitter? That’s courage, drive, and possibly a mental health issue. Yet here’s the TwitterPeek — what looks to be the same old Peek you know, love, and probably haven’t purchased, stripped of its email and SMS functionality and re-oriented towards telling the entire world too much about your body and what you’re doing to it every waking moment of the day. Now, to be fair, we’re getting a distinctly strange feeling of phoniness about this whole thing, but there’s already an Amazon listing and a picture of the box has already surfaced on — where else? — Twitter, so this could really be happening. Just think about that for a second. And then tweet about it, of course.
[Via LiveDigitally]
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The TwitterPeek is… a Peek for Twitter? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: Peek, TwitterPeek, amazon, leak, leaks, rumor, rumors, twitter, twitter peek
Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz CPU
We can certainly understand why Verizon wants to brand all of its Android devices under the “Droid” label, but at this point we can’t say we understand why it’s launching the HTC Droid Eris alongside the Motorola Droid at all — BGR says it’s going to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz Qualcomm CPU, which means it’ll be instantly obsoleted by Android 2.0 on the Moto’s OMAP3 at launch. What’s more, it sure seems like Verizon knows it’s mismanaging this situation, as we haven’t heard a single peep about the Eris in the runup to the Droid launch tomorrow, even though Eric Schmidt and Lowell McAdam were waving both devices around a few weeks ago. We’ll see how this all plays out — HTC certainly has Android 2.0 phones of its own in the works, so the Eris might not be long for this world.
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Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: Android, DroidEris, Eris, HtcDesire, HtcDroidEris, Motorola Droid, MotorolaDroid, VerizonDroid, droid, droid eris, htc desire, htc droid eris, rumor, rumors, verizon, verizon droid
Google developing free navigation app?
We already know plenty of people who’ve eschewed traditional turn-by-turn GPS systems in favor of plotting it out for free on Google Maps, and now there’s whispers that Mountain View is coming after the rest of the market with a free nav app. That’s at least what nav services providers are saying to Forbes, who think El Goog is gearing up to release a free ad-supported navigation app after making moves to use its own US maps instead licensing data from Tele Atlas and putting ads on the iPhone Maps app. Obviously that would shake things up a ton — and make Android devices a huge bargain — but we’ll see where this all leads over the next few months.
[Via Fierce Mobile Content; thanks Elad]
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Google developing free navigation app? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: Android, Google Maps, GoogleMaps, Navigation, TeleAtlas, Turn by turn, app, apps, google, gps, rumor, rumors, tele atlas
