33591094
join:2002-11-19
Canada | reply to fuziwuzi
Re: No Wi-Fi????
Agreed - it should be a standard feature at this point.
Huge mistake, RIM. The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon.
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aaronwt
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA | Well Verizon is the one that passed on the iPhone. They had the chance to be the exclusive seller of it, but passed. |
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dlewis23
join:2005-04-18
Boca Raton, FL
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said by 33591094  :The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon. The iPhone is not coming to verizon anytime soon, and one who believes it is coming, is an idiot.
In the contact that apple and AT&T have, AT&T has in there saying that apple can not make a CDMA version. |
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33591094
join:2002-11-19
Canada | reply to aaronwt
Really? I did not know that. The telecommunication companies really are run by complete and utter morons, aren't they?
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MPScan
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join:2001-08-24
Boston, MA
| said by 33591094 :Really? I did not know that. The telecommunication companies really are run by complete and utter morons, aren't they?
Actually, the main reason that Verizon passed on the iPhone is because of the amount of control that Apple wanted over the handset. For example, requiring the phone to be sent back to Apple for a battery replacement. Verizon wasn't willing to do that to their customers. |
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MPScan
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join:2001-08-24
Boston, MA
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said by dlewis23 :said by 33591094 :The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon. The iPhone is not coming to verizon anytime soon, and one who believes it is coming, is an idiot. In the contact that apple and AT&T have, AT&T has in there saying that apple can not make a CDMA version.
Yes, but that contract has an expiration, of I think 5 years, at which point Apple is free to produce a similar product for Verizon if both parties agree and AT&T can't do squat about it. |
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dlewis23
join:2005-04-18
Boca Raton, FL
| said by MPScan :said by dlewis23 :said by 33591094 :The iPhone will eat that for lunch, when it comes to Verizon. The iPhone is not coming to verizon anytime soon, and one who believes it is coming, is an idiot. In the contact that apple and AT&T have, AT&T has in there saying that apple can not make a CDMA version. Yes, but that contract has an expiration, of I think 5 years, at which point Apple is free to produce a similar product for Verizon if both parties agree and AT&T can't do squat about it. Yea till they sign a new contact for the 3rd get iPhone. |
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aaronwt
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
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said by MPScan :said by 33591094 :Really? I did not know that. The telecommunication companies really are run by complete and utter morons, aren't they? Actually, the main reason that Verizon passed on the iPhone is because of the amount of control that Apple wanted over the handset. For example, requiring the phone to be sent back to Apple for a battery replacement. Verizon wasn't willing to do that to their customers. But in Hindsight, after the massive numbers of people that the iPhone brought to At&T, I would think Verizon would have made the changes if they had it to do over again. |
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ARHerrington
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Seriously, this is a mistake! If you think about, customers that are actually going to buy this phone are more than likely on some kind of company plan where the BES is already going to be paid for, so if Verizon is worried about loosing money on the Data plans with Wi-Fi enabled, they seriously need to take another look. You would imagine that the engineers would love to see less of strain on the EVDO network.
Someone needs to explain please.  |
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