http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/27813/Quote:
According to a source we believe to be familiar with the matter:
• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• Formal announcement coming right "after christmas", was
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; "Apparently ATT's final demand so as to maximize ATT'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 said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly
• Apple is "helping" U.S. carriers (money?) to build out LTE more quickly
MacDailyNews Note: The above information is from a sole source that we believe to be credible, but should be treated as rumor, since we cannot independently confirm the information at this time.
I firmly believe that whatever network(s) have the iPhone are the networks going to hell. With every "app" being a couple MB a piece and more than half of them being "defective", that's a lot of data moving around. Auctually, I never really understood the App thing--iOS users seem to want an app for everything, whereas I see that my internet browser works just fine. Why download an Amazon app when Amazon.com works just fine?
"Steve Jobs is said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly"
Again shows that he has no clue on how those "techie things" actually work.
Final thought: The easiest way to check for a LTE rollout is to visit your nearest cell site and look for Verizon equipment. If the equipment is there but not connected to anything, you can bet LTE isn't ready yet. (please don't break into the shacks to find out :P)
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