Another day, another set of Verizon iPhone rumors. According to sources at MacDailyNews, Verizon subscribers should expect the iPhone shortly after the Christmas holiday along with an official announcement. The VZW iPhone will be 4G LTE compatible with backwards support for 3G CDMA as well. This will not be available through third-party retailers, only through Bug Red themselves. The full list of rumors/speculation are after the break.
• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; Apparently AT&T’s final demand as as to maximize AT&T’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 thru 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 widepsread, 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 “pissed” that carriers cannot seem to “get their LTE shit together”
• Apple is “helping” (think $$$) U.S. carrriers to build out LTE more quickly
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