‘Tis the season for silly rumors and while it’s always unpossible (Google it) to rule out everything, the latest “Verizon is getting an LTE iPhone 4G right after Christmas” round seems a lot more naughty than nice.
The reasonable parts are reasonable enough: Verizon has been training for the iPhone launch, there’ll be an announcement after Christmas so as not to ruin AT&T’s last big holiday season hurrah, the Verizon iPhone is “100% cooked”, and… that’s where it seems to fall off the rails.
According a single “source familiar with the matter” (not Phil Schiller’s Twitter account, obviously), MacDailyNews reports:
The Verizon iPhone will be LTE and exclusively so
Verizon management already has it in their hands
It’ll also be CDMA compatible, since LTE is limited
iPhone 5 this summer is supposed to be LTE for everyone
Steve Jobs is “pissed” carriers can’t “get their LTE $#1t together
Apple is helping carriers build out their LTE more quickly […]
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