Comments on: Verizon iPhone unveil February 3 2011?

By: Jack Joshlin

Jack Joshlin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:52:00 +0000

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By: Jack Joshlin

Jack Joshlin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:52:00 +0000

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By: Jack Joshlin

Jack Joshlin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:52:00 +0000

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By: Hunter S Tomboy

Hunter S Tomboy — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:00:01 +0000

This all seems rather familiar… Ah, I remember now. At last years CES we were supposed to get an iPhone/Verizon announcement. Then when that didn’t come there was supposed to be one a few weeks later.. and lets not forget the supposed impending announcement for for the Holiday season- because after-all it is the hottest sales period of the year.
Eventually it will come. Maybe Jobs will give it to another carrier or two first, to punish Verizon for it’s refusal to play footsie w/ Jobs at the birth of the iPhone. Jobs is a genius, but he’s definitely got a vindictive side, and now that he’s king of the mountain, he no longer has to suppress the fact that he’s a jerk.
Or maybe it’ll come on January 18th (yesterdays rumor) or maybe Feb 3rd.
In any event, I’m done waiting. My contract has been up w/ Verizon for 2months. I have a bonus coming mid Feb. I’m buying a Droid. I could switch carriers, but (at least here) the difference between ATT & Verizons reliability & quality is night and day.
My best friend recently got married to a guy she’s known for a couple years. He’s been on ATT since they met, she on Verizon. He owns a big business empire, and he’s entrenched with ATT, with employees on his plan, etc. So he’s sticking with ATT… forever. Her Verizon contract came up last October, and despite being a devoted Mac fangrrl, and despite the savings that they would have had if she got onto his ATT contract- she stuck with Verizon because of ~2yrs of experience with his horrible ATT service. It’s weird too, although we’re only in a MID-sized city, we’re real hot in high tech manufacturing, we’re a big test market for products & services, and every time a magazine writes one of those “top ten cities to… (live, work, raise a kid, get laid, get drunk, etc.)” we make it on the list, usually near the top spot. So I’d think that ATT’s service would be at it’s pea her
(that was quite a tangent..)
Anyway, I’m done with Apple yanking my chain. I’d love to have an iPhone, it would fit with my almost 30yr love affair with Apple products (starting with first gen AppleII+).
I just can’t wait any longer, realistically the differences between the iPhone & the Droid are minimal, and when you throw in ATT’s overtaxed system that drops the connection every 5-15mins (with quality varying significantly between drops)- switching carriers isn’t an option either.
My pointless, and half-hearted tirade for the day…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:59:49 +0000

What are you talking about? Apples typical release day is a Tuesday, nit Thursday. They’ve had product launches on other days, but it’s usually on a Tuesday. Did you just make up the Thursday thing, or did you decide not to do any research on it?

By: Sampson

Sampson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:54:58 +0000

It makes perfect since … My nside info says that today verizon held a meeting and stated that march 1st is the release date for the iphone … The contract has ended wi at&tas of dec 31 2010 …. So they will sale millions of them on release upon them having super bowl iphone for verizon commercials !

By: Marshall Yount

Marshall Yount — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:50:11 +0000

Why would they release the iPhone on Super Bowl weekend? That would be an unnecessary distraction to the marketing spend.

By: Derob

Derob — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:29:36 +0000

Well, while every 2-3 months the rumors cropped up, most of them seemed to suggest that the V iPhone would be released this year, not every 2-3 months.

By: goobbb

goobbb — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:56:01 +0000

every 2-3 months apple is going to release the first iphone to verizon… amazing that over a year later these “rumors” keep popping up every 2-3 months… if someone is wrong… 10 times in a row… i think I will not listen to them… is this a hard concept?